Gary Poster, with essential assists from Galyn Norwood, Phiroon Phihakendr, Jose Quijada, Pavandeep Kalra. Odd that the republic chooses to renew itself in the dead of winter. From George Washington's first Inaugural in late April 1789 the ceremony was pushed back to early March, and from F.D.R. to the present it has been locked in this hard, white burial vault of a month. The Dakotas, frozen thick for weeks, sent an ice wind east for the occasion, but it thawed a bit by Monday.
All official ceremonies are falsities, of course, freeze-frame displays of institutional continuity.
And the reason was Clinton. Try as one may, it is very hard to like this President very much. He is an astonishingly quick study. He is sweet and graceful with small audiences. He works like a horse.