{"id":109502,"date":"2017-12-09T15:06:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-09T15:06:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2023-01-08T10:52:56","modified_gmt":"2023-01-08T10:52:56","slug":"john-f-kennedy-inaugurated-as-president-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/2017\/12\/09\/john-f-kennedy-inaugurated-as-president-3\/","title":{"rendered":"John F. Kennedy inaugurated as President, 1961"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><h3 class=\"post-title entry-title\"><\/h3>\n<div class=\"post-body entry-content\"><a href=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/e\/e3\/Jfk_inauguration.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/e\/e3\/Jfk_inauguration.jpg\" style=\"cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 181px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 181px;\" \/><\/a>During  the night before the inauguration of the thirty-fifth President of the  United States, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, heavy snow fell on Washington  D.C. Nevertheless, on the morning of 20th January 1961, snow ploughs and  gangs of workers cleared the processional route so that the ceremony  could go ahead. Meanwhile, Kennedy attended Holy Trinity Catholic Church  in Georgetown before joining President Eisenhower to travel in  procession to the Capitol.<\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of thousands of people  watched as Cardinal Cushing of Boston delivered the Invocation prayer,  the first time a Roman Catholic had done so. The eighty-six year old  poet Robert Frost intended to read a poem he had written for especially  for the occasion called <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Dedication<\/span>, but the glare of the sun prevented him from doing so. Instead he recited another of his poems, <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">The Gift Outright<\/span>, from memory.<\/p>\n<p>Following  the swearing in of Vice President Johnson by Speaker of the House Sam  Rayburn, Chief Justice Earl Warren administered the presidential oath of  office to Kennedy. The youngest ever President of the United States  then delivered his inaugural address. After giving his address, Kennedy  processed to the White House where he witnessed a parade, which had  peace as its central motif.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the night before the inauguration of the thirty-fifth President of the United States, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, heavy snow fell on Washington D.C. Nevertheless, on the morning of 20th January 1961, snow ploughs and gangs of workers cleared the processional route so that the ceremony could go ahead. Meanwhile, Kennedy attended Holy Trinity Catholic Church [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109502"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109502\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}