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10 1st, 2011| 
Obama 56 th Inauguration Parade Parade zur Amtseinführung des 44.Us Praesidenten
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Jun
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Aretha Franklin sings My Country Tis Of Thee at The Inauguration Of Barack Obama, January 20, 2009
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Jun
5
THE ART OF JUNK performing live
some raw video by zone3 the night after obama’s inauguration in washington dc.
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WASHINGTON Unemployment is up. The stock market is down. Let’s party.
The price tag for President-elect Barack Obama’s inauguration gala is expected to break records, with some estimates reaching as high as $150 million. Despite the bleak economy, however, Democrats who called on President George W. Bush to be frugal four years ago are issuing no such demands now that an inaugural weekend of rock concerts and star-studded parties has begun.
Obama’s inaugural committee has raised more than $41 million to cover events ranging from a Philadelphia-to-Washington train ride to a megastar concert with Beyonce, U2 and Bruce Springsteen to 10 official inaugural balls. Add to that the massive costs of security and transportation — costs absorbed by U.S. taxpayers — and the historic inauguration will produce an equally historic bill.
In 2005, Reps. Anthony Weiner, D-N.Y., and Jim McDermott, D-Wash., asked Bush to show a little less pomp and be a little more circumspect at his party.
“President Roosevelt held his 1945 inaugural at the White House, making a short speech and serving guests cold chicken salad and plain pound cake,” the two lawmakers wrote in a letter. “During World War I, President Wilson did not have any parties at his 1917 inaugural, saying that such festivities would be undignified.”
The thinking was that, with the nation at war, excessive celebration was inappropriate. Four years later, the nation is still at war. Unemployment has risen sharply. And Obama pressed Congress to release the second half of a $700 billion bailout package in hopes of rescuing a faltering banking industry.
Obama’s inauguration committee says it is mindful of the times and is not worried people will see the four days of festivities as excessive.
“That is probably not the way the country is going to be looking at it,” said committee spokeswoman Linda Douglass. “It is not a celebration of an election. It is a celebration of our common values.”
Douglass said the campaign sought to keep costs down by having the same decorations at each of the 10 balls, eliminating floral arrangements and negotiating prices on food.
“Those at the Obama administration are trying to be reflective of the climate,” McDermott’s spokesman, Mike DeCeasar, said Saturday.
The festivities began Saturday with a speech at Philadelphia’s historic 30th Street train as Obama’s trip began.
Sunday’s concert at the Lincoln Memorial includes performances by Sheryl Crow, Stevie Wonder, Garth Brooks and others. Denzel Washington and Queen Latifah will read historic passages. HBO paid $2.5 million for the exclusive rights to broadcast the concert.
Monday, the inaugural committee is hosting a national day of service, followed by three “bipartisan dinners” and a concert at the Verizon Center honoring military families. The Disney Channel will broadcast the concert, which includes performances by teen stars Miley Cyrus and the Jonas Brothers, as part of a $2 million deal that also gave ABC the exclusive rights to broadcast one inaugural ball.
The television deals allowed the committee to recoup about $5 million of the $15 million production costs for the televised events, Douglass said.
Security and transportation costs are being paid by taxpayers. And with millions of tourists expected to descend on Washington for Tuesday’s inauguration ceremony, Bush declared a state of emergency, allowing the district to recover some costs for the event.
The inauguration committee is paying for 10 stadium-style screens to broadcast the inauguration ceremony on the National Mall. It is also hiring garbage and recycling services and renting thousands of portable toilets for what one supplier called “the largest temporary restroom event in the history of the United States.”
Obama has pledged transparency in his inauguration fundraising. He has disclosed inaugural donors as the fundraising continued, though he is not required to do so until after the ceremony.
Many of the fundraisers are well-known moneymen and women in Democratic circles. Those leading the list raised at least $300,000. They include two of Obama’s top campaign fundraisers: Louis Susman, who retired this month as vice chairman of banking giant and government bailout recipient Citigroup, and billionaire Hyatt hotel heiress Penny Pritzker.
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http://www.infowars.com/?p=7255
May
9
Experience the inauguration ceremony for Teresa A. Sullivan, eighth president of the University of Virginia. Held on U.Va.’s historic Lawn, the event drew many distinguished guests. Speakers included Virginia Gov. Robert F. McDonnell and University of Michigan President Mary Sue Coleman. President Sullivan also addressed the crowd, speaking to the importance of teaching, research and service.
The spring weather in Charlottesville was glorious. It was a good day for a festive gathering of faculty, staff, students, alumni and friends of the University.
Duration : 1:44:23
May
9
It wasn’t a coincidence that the international center of Mary of Nazareth opened its doors on March 25th, the Feast of the Annunciation. Fifty meters from the Basilica and in the presence of civic and religious leaders, the ‘Chemin Neuf’ community presented the center, founded through the collaboration of biblical scholars and theologians. In 2007, the first foundation stone of the museum was laid, although the center occupies a renovated building from the Ottoman era. It is divided into four rooms, for a guided tour lasting about an hour. The center offers many services: more than purely an exhibition area, it includes a rooftop terrace at Nazareth, and the chapel “To Jesus Through Mary” in which perpetual adoration is held. There’s also an interactive wall map on Marian shrines in the world. Work on the new facility led to a unique archaeological discovery, currently being examined by experts from the Israel Antiquities Authority. It’s a house from the time of Jesus and several cisterns and hidden caverns which have been unearthed by members of the Mary of Nazareth Association. The objective of this interactive museum is to inform the thousands of pilgrims each year who visit the nearby Basilica of the meaning of Mary today – her importance in giving birth to the mystery of the Incarnation. The aims are both ecumenical and interreligious, stressing Mary’s concern for the Churches of the East, the way she is presented in the Koran and Mary’s nature as a Jewish woman.
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Apr
8
University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff Marching Musicial Machine of the Mid South at Barack Obama’s Inauguration parade 09
Duration : 0:2:54
Mar
25
John and Jin Wiskus in Kuwait City, Playing “I Will Survive” at the 2009, Barack Obama, Inaugural Ball at the Kuwait City, Crown Plaza Hotel.
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Mar
12
January 20, 1965 http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0312060270?ie=UTF8&tag=doc06-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0312060270 Watch the full film: http://thefilmarchived.blogspot.com/2010/09/president-lyndon-b-johnson-inauguration.html
On September 7, 1964, Johnson’s campaign managers for the 1964 presidential election broadcast the “Daisy ad.” It portrayed a little girl picking petals from a daisy, counting up to ten. Then a baritone voice took over, counted down from ten to zero and a nuclear bomb exploded. The message was that Barry Goldwater meant nuclear war. Although it only aired the one time, it escalated into a very heated election. Johnson won the presidency by a landslide with 61% of the vote and the then-widest popular margin in the 20th century — more than 15 million votes (this was later surpassed by incumbent President Nixon’s defeat of Senator McGovern in 1972). Percentage-wise, Johnson’s popular vote margin of over 22 percentage points is a record that stands to this day.
In the summer of 1964, the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) was organized with the purpose of challenging Mississippi’s all-white and anti-civil rights delegation to the Democratic National Convention of that year as not representative of all Mississippians. At the national convention in Atlantic City, New Jersey the MFDP claimed the seats for delegates for Mississippi, not on the grounds of the Party rules, but because the official Mississippi delegation had been elected by a primary conducted under Jim Crow laws in which blacks were excluded because of poll taxes, literacy tests, and even violence against black voters. The national Partys liberal leaders supported a compromise in which the white delegation and the MFDP would have an even division of the seats; Johnson was concerned that, while the regular Democrats of Mississippi would probably vote for Goldwater anyway, if the Democratic Party rejected the regular Democrats, he would lose the Democratic Party political structure that he needed to win in the South. Eventually, Hubert Humphrey, Walter Reuther and black civil rights leaders (including Roy Wilkins, Martin Luther King, and Bayard Rustin) worked out a compromise with MFDP leaders: the MFDP would receive two non-voting seats on the floor of the Convention; the regular Mississippi delegation would be required to pledge to support the party ticket; and no future Democratic convention would accept a delegation chosen by a discriminatory poll. When the leaders took the proposal back to the 64 members who had made the bus trip to Atlantic City, they voted it down. As MFDP Vice Chair Fannie Lou Hamer said, “We didn’t come all the way up here to compromise for no more than wed gotten here. We didn’t come all this way for no two seats, ’cause all of us is tired.” The failure of the compromise effort allowed the rest of the Democratic Party to conclude that the MFDP was simply being unreasonable, and they lost a great deal of their liberal support. After that, the convention went smoothly for Johnson without a searing battle over civil rights. Despite the landslide victory, Johnson, who carried the South as a whole in the election, lost the Deep South states of Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia and South Carolina, the first time a Democratic candidate had done so since Reconstruction.
Johnson won the presidency by a majority of 61 percent and said he would carry forward the plans and programs of John Fitzgerald Kennedy. Not because of our sorrow or sympathy, but because they are right.
Duration : 0:10:59
Mar
4
Professor Sir Terry Pratchett Inaugural Lecture “The Importance of Being Amazed about Absolutely Everything”. 4 November 2010, Trinity College Dublin
Duration : 1:3:27
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