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After the ceremony, and before he embarked on the ceremonial parade from the Capitol to the White House, Obama attended a traditional congressional luncheon in Statuary Hall of the Capitol building.
And you've been a shoo-in for the job ever since? At the start, they contacted me, and for the next, oh, I'd say three or four Inaugurals, somebody [from the new Administration] always called me. They never asked me if I'm a Republican or a Democrat...
So what does the President's announcer do exactly? Before my first parade, one of the chairmen of the Inaugural committees said to me, "Charlie, you're the President's announcer, aren't you?" And I said, "Yes sir." And he said, "You know why they call you that?" I...
How does the President's personality or the country's mood affect the parade? Take Dwight Eisenhower. He was a military man with a no-nonsense personality, so it was a very conservative parade. Basically, he said, "Look, each state will be limited - one float, one band and one military...
What I remember most that year was thinking it was a miracle that there was a parade at all. The night before D.C. had [had] a snowstorm accumulating six inches! So that night the Inaugural committee had 3,000 servicemen, 700 trucks, 100 snowplows, even Army flame throwers working all...