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United States presidential inauguration: Quick Facts

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Barack Obama: inaugural address
George W. Bush: first inauguration
Woodrow Wilson: inaugural parade
Dwight D. Eisenhower and Mamie Eisenhower
Lyndon B. Johnson, Jacqueline Kennedy, and Lady Bird Johnson
Andrew Johnson: oath of office
Abraham Lincoln: inauguration
Twentieth Amendment
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