Wait a minute!!!! Didn't the Clintons walk Pennsylvania Avenue?

[Midlodemocrat]

I remember unkind comments about Hillary. :shrug:

Responding to Andrea Mitchell who should go drown herself in the Tidal Basin.

[EFerrari]

1. I remember the Carters did but don't remember the Clintons.

[Midlodemocrat]

4. Man. I must be getting older than I thought.

I thought I remembered comments about Hillary's 'piano legs' that I thought were very unkind.

:shrug:

[EFerrari]

7. Not you. I had little kids and was too tied up to watch the Clintons. n/t

[Midlodemocrat]

13. I had little kids, too.

But I locked them outside to watch. LOL.

Kidding.

[karynnj]

20. I had kids - but the two oldest were 7 and 5 and they watched much of it

The two year old didn't - I remember the kid's concert had Raffi - a big favorite with them at the time.

I don't remember any criticism of HRC that day. It was youth and hope.

[charlie]

2. The Carters did

I have no idea what Andrea M said, though.

[Midlodemocrat]

11. She just said that the Carters were the last ones to walk the Avenue.

I distinctly remember the Clintons, especially the first time with Hillary's hat.

[charlie]

12. Ah

It figures. Thanks.

[charlie]

16. Lol!

Here it is, a pretty notable hat-dress ensemble. I can see why you remembered it:

[Midlodemocrat]

18. LOL. I actually thought she looked lovely.

at the time, that is. :rofl:

[kskiska]

3. Yes, they did.

I remember distinctly Hillary in a plaid suit with a large hat.

[Midlodemocrat]

5. YES!!!! That's what I remember as well. Thank you!!!

They should give me Andrea Mitchell's job because she's an idiot and I'm not. LOL.

[charlie]

9. Pic from 2nd inaugural

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/nation/obama/bal-inaugural-pg0115,0,3550665.photogallery?index=bal-clintoninauguration20090115112121

[ellenfl]

#7 is from their 1st inaugural. eom

[MrScorpio]

6. Yes, they did

I was there and saw it for myself

[BOSSHOG]

8. President Bartlett walked to congress to deal with the House Speaker

who dissed him. Great episode.

[polichick]

10. The Carters started the tradition in 1977

[Midlodemocrat]

14. Andrea stated that the last ones to walk the avenue were the Carters.

I distinctly remember the Clintons.

[polichick]

15. She just messed it up - the Carters started it and the Clintons did it too.

[Flying Dream Blues]

17. I remember the Clintons walking, too. nt

[GreenTea]

21. Tradition by Democrats, Carter, Clinton & Obama?

-- RICHARD NIXON was the first president to require that only people with special invitations be admitted to the Capitol grounds for his 1969 inauguration.

-- GERALD FORD was the first un-elected vice president to assume the presidency on Nixon's 1974 resignation during Watergate.

-- JIMMY CARTER was the first to walk from the Capitol to the White House after being inaugurated.

-- RONALD REAGAN'S 1981 inaugural was the first staged on the Capitol's West Front.

-- BILL CLINTON'S 1997 inauguration was the first carried live in cyberspace.

The Constitution contains only two inauguration requirements:

-- That presidents-elect take office at noon on Jan. 20.

-- That they repeat the 35-word oath to "faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."

But presidents have spent 220 years creating their own inaugural customs. Here's a look at some:

-- GEORGE WASHINGTON added "so help me God" to the oath and kissed the Bible. His 1789 swearing-in was on a balcony in New York City, the temporary capital.

-- JOHN ADAMS was the first president sworn in by a chief justice, Oliver Ellsworth, in 1797. (There was no chief justice to swear in Washington because presidents name Supreme Court justices, so New York Chancellor Robert Livingston administered the oath to Washington.)

-- THOMAS JEFFERSON was the first president inaugurated in Washington, D.C., in 1801. He was the first and only president to walk to and from his inauguration.

-- JAMES MADISON was the first president to have an inaugural parade and ball, hosted in 1809 by his party-loving wife Dolley.

-- MADISON also inadvertently left the country without a president for a day between his two terms: The Constitution initially specified inaugurations be held on March 4, but March 4, 1813, fell on a Sunday, when civil oaths and celebrations were unheard of. The problem was subsequently remedied by letting new presidents take the oath in advance in private with public inaugurations delayed until Monday.

-- JAMES MONROE moved inaugurations outdoors again in 1817 after the British burned the Capitol. His was held on the Capitol's East Front, where inaugurations usually were staged until 1981.

-- MARTIN VAN BUREN was the first U.S.-born citizen-president in 1837. His predecessors predated formation of the United States.

-- WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON was the first to arrive in Washington by rail. His 1841 inauguration also set the record for the longest inaugural address at 10,000 words. He caught pneumonia and died a month later.

-- FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT in 1937 was the first president to take office Jan. 20, the new date specified by the 20th Amendment. In 1941, Roosevelt became the first president inaugurated more than twice -- a practice later prohibited by the 22nd Amendment. FDR's fourth inauguration in 1945 was on the White House South Portico and lasted only six minutes; Roosevelt died the following April 12.

-- HARRY TRUMAN was presiding over the Senate on April 12, 1945, when Eleanor Roosevelt summoned him to the White House to tell him FDR was dead. Truman's 1948 inaugural was the first carried on TV.

-- DWIGHT EISENHOWER broke custom in 1953 by improvising an inaugural prayer. He didn't kiss the Bible and wore a Homburg instead of the traditional top hat.

-- JOHN KENNEDY wore a stovepipe for his inauguration, to the joy of haberdashers. He was the last president to do so. The first Catholic president, he was sworn in on a Catholic Douay Bible.

http://www.scrippsnews.com/node/39923

[Winterblues]

23. You left off LBJ, the only President to be sworn in by a woman

:shrug:

[polichick]

25. I remember how surprising it was when the Carters got out and walked - very cool!

[Marrah_G]

19. Yes- but I think it took far more courage for Obama to do it

The crowd is FAR more massive. The country is very divided. And not the least part: There are many White supremists and RWers who have guns and REALLY want him dead.

[Midlodemocrat]

22. Not comparing. Andrea Mitchell erroneously stated that the last

President to walk the Avenue was Carter and I thought she was wrong because I remembered the Clintons.

[Marrah_G]

24. Ohhhhhhhhhh...hehe okay

[Tangerine LaBamba]

26. The idiot Mrs. Greenspan

She started shrieking that "The President is walking over to the people standing in front of the Navy Memorial!" when, in fact, Obama hadn't even gotten out of the car yet.

She needs whacking and thumping.

[2Design]

27. kick and mark n/t