ShareThisHere is the Scripps Howard News Service inauguration budget for Sunday, Jan. 18, 2009. If you have questions or comments, SHNS editors can be reached at 202-408-1484. For all SHNS content and archives visit our Web site at www.shns.com.
EDITORS: This combines historical perspective and a forward look at the unfolding events. Some stories moved previously and are noted as such.
Additional inauguration stories/skeds will move Jan. 19-20.
MOVING SUNDAY, JAN. 18, Category W.
INAUG-CIVILRIGHTS (McMillin, SHNS) -- MEMPHIS, Tenn.: Titans of the civil-rights movement reflect on the meaning of Barack Obama's inauguration. 600.
INAUG-CIVIL-TOUGH (McMillin, SHNS) -- MEMPHIS, Tenn.: Titans of the Civil Rights Movement know Barack Obama faces unusually tough challenges. 260. Sidebar to CIVILRIGHTS.
INAUG-CIVIL-RACE (McMillin, SHNS) -- The election of Barack Obama doesn't mean the end of racism in America. 680. Sidebar to CIVILRIGHTS.
INAUG-CIVIL-MLK (McMillin SHNS) -- Obama stands on King's shoulders, but winning more Civil Rights battles will take vigilance, titans say. 640. Sidebar to CIVILRIGHTS.
MOVED PREVIOUSLY, Category W.
INAUG-WEATHER (Bowman, SHNS) -- WASHINGTON: The latest National Weather Service forecast for Washington on Inauguration Day: mostly sunny, with a high of 35 degrees, possibly a little snow on the ground. Just who said it's a good idea to swear in the new president in Washington, on Jan. 20, outdoors? 615.(Moved Jan. 16.)
INAUG-PROTOCOL (McFeatters, SHNS) -- WASHINGTON: From the butler's early morning tap on the president-elect's suite to the last dance at the last of 10 inaugural balls, the Obama inauguration will proceed according to tradition and the clock. 1,000. (Moved Jan. 16.)
INAUG-VEHICLES (SHNS) -- WASHINGTON: The inaugural route between Capitol Hill and the White House has been traversed by presidents in wooden carriages, Stanley Steamers and bubble-topped limos. And on Tuesday the most secure car ever to carry the nation's chief of state will debut. 1,000. (Moved Jan. 16.)
INAUG-FINALHOURS (SHNS) -- WASHINGTON: After all the headlines, adulation and parties -- not to mention 24-hour attention by a squadron of White House aides, chefs and maids -- there comes the sudden realization for a departing president that he's -- well, history. 1,000. (Moved Jan. 16.)
INAUG-MOVING (SHNS) -- "The lonesomest place in the world," is how William Howard Taft remembered it. That's what the inside of the White House will look like at noon on Jan. 20, as America's TV networks and press focus on the Capitol steps where Barack Obama will be sworn in as the 44th president. 1,074. (Moved Jan.14.)
INAUG-CUSTOM (SHNS) -- WASHINGTON: U.S. presidents have spent 220 years creating their own inaugural customs, from "so help me God" to cyberspace. 1,017. (Moved Jan. 13.)
INAUG-HISTORY (SHNS) - Juicy historical tidbits of presidential inaugurations through the years. 1,026. (Moved Jan. 13.)
INAUG-SPEECHES (Bowman, SHNS) -- Some might argue that after an 18-month run for the presidency, plus more than two months spent in an unusually high profile preparatory effort, the novelty of an Obama Inaugural Address is likely to be more symbolic than substantive. 782. (Moved Jan. 12.)
INAUG-PROTEST (Wolf, SHNS) -- WASHINGTON: Call them the party poopers. Call them committed to their ideals. Whatever you call them, protesters will be present in the nation's capital on Inauguration Day, though in smaller numbers and quieter voice than in recent inaugurals. 500. (Moved Jan. 15.)
INAUG-BALLS (Hammer, Toronto Globe and Mail) -- The balls marking Barack Obama's inauguration will be the most exclusive ever. 600. With sidebar. (Moved Jan. 15.)
INAUG-CANADA (Hammer, Toronto Globe and Mail) -- When Toronto bookstore owner Itah Sadu decided she was going to attend Barack Obama's inauguration in Washington, she asked her friends if they wanted to come. So many said yes she ended up chartering a bus. Their inauguration-bound vehicle seats 35. 485. (Moved Jan. 13.)
INAUG-SECURITY (SHNS) -- Inaugural security precautions may be at a new height, but protecting presidents from real or symbolic threats has been part of the ritual since 1789, when members of the Continental Army escorted George Washington to his swearing-in ceremony at Federal Hall in New York City. 431. (Moved. Jan. 14.)
INAUG-PRAYER (Garza, Sacramento Bee) -- Prayer issue hangs over inauguration. 600. (Moved Jan. 15.)
