inauguration

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Ndayishimiye had just returned on Tuesday afternoon from a trip to the Central African Republic for his Centrafrican counterpart Faustin-Archange Touadera's third-term inauguration.

From Barron's • Mar. 31, 2026

In 2024, his successor, Sheinbaum, took the unusual move of not inviting King Felipe to her inauguration, arguing that neither he nor the Spanish government had responded to López Obrador's request.

From BBC • Mar. 17, 2026

Reagan ordered 7,000 pounds of Jelly Bellys for his 1981 inauguration, The Times reported.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 24, 2026

Yet, the country’s wells last year gushed a record 13.6 million barrels of crude on average each day—100,000 barrels more than the Energy Information Administration, the federal forecaster, had anticipated before President Trump’s inauguration.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 17, 2026

According to the Washington Post, the women “practically fought their way foot by foot up Pennsylvania Avenue....No inauguration has ever produced such scenes, which in many instances amounted to little less than riots.”

From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling