that took place in washington, d.c.? my mom s birthday? 1801. this guy is going too fast, right? who was the first president to affirm rather than swear the oath of office? what s the difference? those are sin him ins. that s a president? here s another piece of trivia. when donald trump takes the oath of office, he will be the first president since eisenhower to be sworn in without any political experience. what won t be different is all the fanfare. including the president s own united states marine band. hey, how do i get a marine band? we think we played for every presidential inauguration since thomas jefferson. music is central to the
democrat, republican, it is goosebumps, this smooth transfer of power. this parade has been going on since 1801 so the president and the first lady coming along. donald j. trump along constitutional avenue. it s pretty incredible. we re going to start hearing the voice of god, the announcer, announcing that the first and second families have reviewed the military units and that presidential escort is coming down abo a mile and a half. it s so eiting for t people here who have come and now you can see all the media that s trailing them. and now brooke. we can see her in the red coat. well played, brooke. there she is waving in the flat b flatbed truck. along with that battalion of black cars. she doesn t know how good she has it.
history. back in i mean, we think it s incredibly contentious now. back in 1797 excuse me, 1801, it was john addams refused to attend jefferson s inauguration. absolutely. and a lot of times these incoming and outgoing presidents just don t like each other at all. the famous photo of fdr s inaugural is, he s trying to chat up herbert hoover and hoover turns and want nothing to do with him. jimmy carter and ronald reagan s was very, very tense. the funniest ones of these journeys was when theodore roosevelt decided not to run and william howard taft came in. and it was snowing in dc here like crazy. and r. kept saying, this is my blizzard, ts is my snow. and taft was like, no, this is my inaugural.
but few people had ever turned that control willingly over to anyone else. and as important as the first transfer of power was, many historians believed that the next election was even more important. when in 1801, one group of people, arguably for the first time in history, willingly if not enthusiastically gave control of the government to people they believed had a dramatically different view of what the government would, should, and could do. after that election, they actually discovered a flaw in the constitution itself, which was remedied by the 12th amendment. thomas jferson at that inauguration, beyond the chaos of the election that had just passed, said, we are all republicans, we are all federalists. after four years of civil war,
a government up until then, but few people had ever turned that control willingly over to anyone else. and as important as the transfer, the first transfer of power was, many historians believe that the next election was even more important. when in 18 oh one tell del mcdonough, 1801, one group of people are really for the first time ever in history, willingly, if not enthusiastically, gave control of the government to people they believed had a dramatically different view of what the government would, should, and could do. after that election that actually discovered a flaw in the constitution itself, which was remedied by the 12th amendment, thomas jefferson at that inauguration, beyond the chaos of the election that had just passed, said we are all republicans, we are all