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afghantimeline.appHeader = "Inaugural facts and firsts <br>";
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afghantimeline[i-1].body = "&bull; Tradition of getting sworn in by chief justice started with the second president, John Adams.";

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afghantimeline[i-1].body = "&bull; Thomas Jefferson was the first sworn in in Washington. ";

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afghantimeline[i-1].body = "&bull; James Monroe in 1817 was the first to deliver his inaugural address outdoors. ";

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afghantimeline[i-1].body = "&bull; In 1837, Martin Van Buren was the first sworn in president who wasn't born a British subject. President-elect Van Buren and President Andrew Jackson rode together to the inauguration. ";

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afghantimeline[i-1].body = "&bull; President-elect Barack Obama modeled his train ride to Washington, D.C., after Abraham Lincoln, but William Henry Harrison was the first to do it in 1841. ";

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afghantimeline[i-1].body = "&bull; Not until 1909 did the future first lady ride in the procession to the inauguration with President-elect William Howard Taft. Warren G. Harding was the first to ride in a car in 1921. ";

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afghantimeline[i-1].body = "&bull; James K. Polk's 1845 inauguration was the first covered by telegraph and the first illustration depicting it in a newspaper. ";

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afghantimeline[i-1].body = "&bull; James Buchanan's is the first known president to be photographed. William McKinley's in 1897 was the first to be filmed with a motion picture camera. Harry S. Truman's in 1949 was the first to be televised. <br>";

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afghantimeline[i-1].body = "&bull; Another Lincoln note, it's the first one in which African Americans participated in the parade.";

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afghantimeline[i-1].body = "&bull; The Roosevelts, in 1933, started the tradition of morning worship at St. John's. Franklin D. Roosevelt was also the first to be sworn in in January 1937.";

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afghantimeline[i-1].body = "&bull; In 1953, Dwight D. Eisenhower broke tradition by reciting a prayer after being sworn in an not kissing the Bible.";

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afghantimeline[i-1].body = "&bull; Poets have become mainstays of modern inaugurals, but John F. Kennedy's was the first that featured one.";

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afghantimeline[i-1].body = "&bull; After Kennedy was assassinated in 1963, it happened to be the first time a woman administered the oath &#151; U.S. District Judge Sarah T. Hughes, who did so on Air Force One.";

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afghantimeline[i-1].body = "&bull; Richard Nixon was actually sworn in on two Bibles &#151; family heirlooms.<br>";

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afghantimeline[i-1].body = "&bull; Ronald Reagan's in 1980 was the first to be done on the Capitol's west front. Reagan in 1985 was sworn in privately on Jan. 20 because it was a Sunday. The following day, the public inauguration took place inside the Capitol rotunda on a day that was 7 degrees, the coldest inauguration day on record.";

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