Martin luther king day is monday, a great epic start. And great epic verbiage for what all this means. And there will be a series of events leading up to thursday. Thursday is the kickoff of it all. Thursday night will be a candlelight dinner, which has been tradition. And each of the dinners and each of the venues is really oriented to just allow people to breathe the place rather than the actors on the stage, it is about the stage. So thursday and friday are the two big days that the swearing in, the capital, the staff is amazing at how they planned it. So it will be commemorative moments, thoughtful. You talk about actors. If you can tell us how concerned are you, you have enough performers, people to do readings, songs, all of that. Are you satisfied that youve got what you need to fill the day as it were on a typical Inauguration Day . Yeah. Overwhelmed. Look, i think were fortunate in that i feel we have the greatest celebrity in the world, which is the president elect. And side
Martin luther king day is monday, a great epic start. And great epic verbiage for what all this means. And there will be a series of events leading up to thursday. Thursday is the kickoff of it all. Thursday night will be a candlelight dinner, which has been tradition. And each of the dinners and each of the venues is really oriented to just allow people to breathe the place rather than the actors on the stage, it is about the stage. So thursday and friday are the two big days that the swearing in, the capital, the staff is amazing at how they planned it. So it will be commemorative moments, thoughtful. You talk about actors. If you can tell us how concerned are you, you have enough performers, people to do readings, songs, all of that. Are you satisfied that youve got what you need to fill the day as it were on a typical Inauguration Day . Yeah. Overwhelmed. Look, i think were fortunate in that i feel we have the greatest celebrity in the world, which is the president elect. And side
My office has received a great deal of items from people in the state of vermont which takes Environmental Protection very seriously, as well as all over the country. My fear is mr. Pruitt is a nomination designed to protect the fossil fuel industry and not the environment. I would like to ask mr. Pru ate questi pru ate question. As i understand it, you said mr. Trump is wrong in stating over and over again that Climate Change is in fact a hoax. Is that correct . Yes, sir. As you may know, some 97 of scientists who have written articles for peerreviewed journals have sited that Climate Change is real and caused by human activity and is already causing devastating problems in our country and around the world. Do you believealready causing d problems in our country and around the world. Do you believehuman activity an causing devastating problems in our country and around the world. Do you believe that Climate Change is caused byemission, by climate emission by human activity. You werent
Commander in chief on january 20th, 2017. Michael beschloss, author and historian, as we prepare for the 58th president ial inauguration. We were looking back at some old films and pictures, one thing thats remarkable is the consistency of the ceremonies every four years. Thats sort of the idea. The ceremony well see this week may not look exactly like George Washington taking his oath on that balcony in 1789 in new york city but the amazing thing that in a country that changed as much as ours has this is one of the very few ceremonies that is relatively consistent and one of the few times in which the nation really tries to come together under a president who is trying to unify it. What does it represent, in your mind, this peaceful transfer of power, the last time we saw it was eight years ago as george w. Bush left the white house and barack obama became our 44th president. Its one of the things that thank god we do well and probably take too much for granted. If you look at the num
Shes his hostess at the inaugural balls. And she plays that first moment of becoming someone whose clothes well be looking at for the next four to eight years. When were the inaugural balls established as part of the ceremonies Inauguration Day . Really, the first inaugural ball happened when George Washington was inaugurated. Here in the collection of the smythe season yan, Martha Washington didnt attend that ball, so we dont have an inaugural gown for that. But we have that worn by the governor of the wife of new york to the ball. The interest goes back to the first one. Why do, or when did it become that we care as americans about what our first lady is wearing . You know, people have been interested in the first ladies fashions since Martha Washingtons. Martha washington often said she felt like a state prisoner, there was so much scrutiny. Every first lady since then has had that. On one hand, clothing is a its something we look at on everyone. Its the first thing with esee. We lo