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Here is a good slide show of some photos of the event:[html][/html]This is from the caption under photo #16, which I thought was interesting:"At 86 years old, Robert Frost was, in 1961, America's greatest living poet. A four-time Pulitzer Prize winner and the quintessential New England bard (albeit born in California), he penned a new poem for the inauguration, but the intense glare of the January sun made it impossible for him to read his own manuscript. After struggling for a bit, and after LBJ stood and tried to help (using his own top hat to shield the page), Frost abandoned the effort and instead recited, from memory, another, more famous work: "The Gift Outright," written nearly 20 years before, which reads in part, "we gave ourselves outright ? To the land vaguely realizing westward." "Also, notice picture #18 shows a Pershing missile as part of the parade display. I wonder when the display of arms in American parades ended.
In the background of slide # 5 is a Nike/Hercules missile. The world's first successful surface to air missile.
Also, notice picture #18 shows a Pershing missile as part of the parade display. I wonder when the display of arms in American parades ended.
Probably in the mid '60s when the modern-liberals started becoming more of a political force and anti-war sentiment was ascendant. I would even guess that Kennedy's was the last inauguration where it happened. As I think about it, the Nike could have been there to provide air defense for the inauguration although I somehow doubt it.Can you Imagine a parade of Patriots, Bradleys, MLRSs, and Tanks following Obama during his inauguration. Never mind the fact that modern missiles are not as sexy as the ones from 50 years ago. The Patriot does not look like much in its launcher and if you don't know what you are looking at it looks like a shipping crate, which is exactly what it is. The Patriot is shipped and fired in the same container.
