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Originally Posted by dannic  Section 1 of the 20th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution provides, "The terms of the President and Vice President shall end at noon on the 20th day of January . . . and the terms of their successors shall then begin." From Wikipedia
And not just because you started this post by my own personal opinion is he should get no special treatment because of skin color...
It would be like saying that Bush or Cliniton or anyone else should have been sworn in on Washingtons B day... |
And that's why I asked how the date was determined. If it's a set day (which according to your post, it is) then of course he shouldn't get special treatment. If it had not been a date set forth by the Constitution or some other law, I still would think that it would have been fitting for him to be sworn in on MLK's birthday.
I've never paid a lot of attention to the actual DATE of when other President's have been sworn in, thus I was unaware that they were all on 1/21 (well, the one's who were elected, and didn't take office due to some other reason).