On Tuesday, Barack Obama will make history when he’s sworn in as the forty-fourth president of the United States of America. Let’s pause to reflect on how how we got here: Here are the president-elect and his forty-three predecessors (counting Grover Cleveland as two presidents, of course). Click on any or all of ‘em, and you’ll go to relevant sites around the Web. (I tried to be nonpartisan; many of them are the appropriate presidential libraries.)
And if you’re less interested in presidencies past and more interested in the one that’s about to start, check out my friend and former colleague Mark Sullivan’s guide to following the inauguration on the Web over at PCWorld.com.
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January 19th, 2009 at 8:57 am
Obama’s bringing back the “no smile” presidential portrait. The slightly curled lip of determination is quite FDR-esque.
January 19th, 2009 at 10:33 am
“Click on any or all of ‘em, and you’ll go to relevant sites around the Web. (I tried to be nonpartisan…”
And yet Andrew Johnson links to “www.impeach-andrewjohnson.com”. :-)
January 19th, 2009 at 10:41 am
Andy: I hope that’s not YOU, President Johnson–if it it, I linked to the impeachment site for its historical value, not by way of criticism, sir…
–Harry
January 19th, 2009 at 4:10 pm
This is interesting to see. Tomorrow will indeed be a day to remember. It is admirably a peaceful transition taking place, one of the most peaceful I have seen in my days. No matter which way you voted, whether you are watching at home or in person taking pictures it is a day to remember.
January 21st, 2009 at 6:04 am
It was very kind of you to make The Franklin Pierce Pages the go-to website for those clicking on the handsome image of the 14th president.