"Let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself." - Franklin

D. Roosevelt, March 1933.

"And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you --- ask what you can do for your country." - John F. Kennedy, January 1961.

Double Take

January 20 falls on a Sunday this year as it did in 1917, 1957 and 1985. As a result, Obama will take the official oath in a private ceremony that day at the White House. He will follow up with the public ceremony on Monday at the Capitol.

Obama will be the first president to have two oaths administered publicly and privately. In 2009, Chief Justice John Roberts flubbed the oath as he read it Obama during the public ceremony. They did it again the next day at the White House to leave no question

Other facts:

Thomas Jefferson was the first president inaugurated in Washington, March 1801.

The first inauguration on January 20 by decree of the 20th Amendment was in 1937.

Andrew Jackson was the first to take the oath on the East Front of the Capitol.

Ronald Reagan of California was the first to be inaugurated on the West Front of the Capitol in 1980.

Jimmy Carter, in 1976, was the first to walk from the Capitol to the White House.

The first inaugural streamed live on the Internet was Bill Clinton's second ceremony in 1997.