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...charge still infuriates Ryan. Ryan says he knew nothing of the statements, and he testified to that effect under oath last week in Boston...
That was never truer than at the swearing-in ceremony on Inauguration Day. The new President radiated the confidence of a young star athlete who couldn't wait for the coach to send him into the big game. Twice while taking the oath of office, he nearly stepped on Chief Justice William Rehnquist's lines. Meanwhile, George Bush, who was married before Clinton was born, wore an understandably defeated look. He stared at Clinton with the naked anguish of a father whose teenage boy had just beaten him at arm wrestling for the first time...
...bell ringing and ceremonies can seem interminable, the parties and balls insufferably glitzy. Still, when the actual moment comes for the new President to raise his hand, take the oath and address his countrymen for the first time as their Chief Executive, all the old cliches come freshly true. It is a majestic combination of continuity and change. It does mark a peaceful transfer of awesome power, as remarkable for its ordinariness in the U.S. as for its rarity in the rest of the world. It does for a moment unite all Americans, however they voted, in hope that their...
...turned out that Bill Clinton had something to learn. For the first half of the week, as the new President prayed and played and paraded and swore his oath of office, his nomination of Zoe Baird as Attorney General seemed nearly as secure as those of the rest of his Cabinet, stars and hacks alike. She had freely admitted hiring undocumented workers, to both Administration officials and Senators who were questioning her, and they had generally brushed it off as "an honest mistake." But within 72 hours, her nomination was unsalvageable, and she became the first U.S. Cabinet nominee...
When George Washington first took the oath I have just sworn to uphold, news traveled slowly across the land on horse-back and across the oceans by boat. Now the sights and sounds of this ceremony are broadcast instantaneously to billions around the world...