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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...
...bygone era when wearing a hat was a sign of respect and also celebration. (Look to Aretha Franklin's euphoric gray felt concoction.) Former Vice President Dick Cheney, Utah Senator Robert Bennett and the Rev. Jesse Jackson all wore fedoras during the ceremony. Later, at the Inaugural luncheon at Statuary Hall, Ted Kennedy showed up in a dashing black fedora. And that evening Rosanna Arquette and will.i.am were among the hipsters who wore fedora-esque hats to Inaugural balls. (See pictures of celebrities at the Inauguration...
...President-elect, however, can be a very persuasive politician, and McCaskill emerged from the luncheon singing a different tune. "He made a pretty compelling case," she said. McCaskill still wasn't quite ready to promise her vote, but others apparently were. Enough Democrats left Tuesday's meeting ready to support Obama that Senate majority leader Harry Reid afterward told reporters, "I think we will get the necessary votes" to block the resolution in a vote expected on Thursday. It was a sharp change from earlier in the morning, when his office had expressed doubts that they had the votes, even...
...down the grocery store without someone yelling at me?" said Senator Claire McCaskill, a Missouri Democrat. "I couldn't even get to the produce section at the front of the store before people started screaming at me about the TARP." McCaskill, on her way to a Senate Democrats' luncheon with Obama, was dubious that she could be convinced to vote against the resolution. "If we can't get transparency for taxpayers on this, it's going to be difficult to get my vote," said McCaskill, one of Obama's top supporters in the Senate. (See the winners and losers...
...occasion was a White House luncheon, hosted by Lady Bird Johnson, in Jan. 1968, near the zenith of the Vietnam War, just before the Tet Offensive. Kitt had given birth to a daughter in 1960, from her five-year marriage to real-estate developer William O. McDonald, and spoke more as a mother than as a criminologist. "You send the best of this country off to be shot and maimed," she told the First Lady. "They rebel in the streets. They will take pot and they will get high. They don't want to go to school because they...