[Magdalen] Congressional Inaugural "Sick-out".

[Roger Stokes]

On 19/01/2017 22:02, Scott Knitter wrote:
> One thing I've recently (re-)learned: the president-elect becomes the
> president at noon on Jan. 20, whether the oath is being taken at that
> moment or not. The Constitution (in an amendment) makes the clock do
> the work, not the chief justice and president-elect.

I believe that if 20 January is a Sunday then they do the inauguration 
privately and have the big show the next day. Of course you need to have 
provision for the President taking office without being sworn in to cope 
with situations where the President does not see out his term. Otherwise 
you would have a time with no President. LBJ was presumably already 
President when he was sworn in after JFK's assassination. I would giess 
also there was a gap between Nixon's resignation becoming effective and 
Ford being sworn in.

Roger