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Inauguration timing shifts from Capitol to indoors
The text notes presidents sworn in outside Washington at times, including Johnson in Dallas, Harrison deaths in 1841 after cold days, and Cleveland shielding Harrison’s oath with an umbrella in 1889. It implies plans may move the ceremony inside the Capitol if it rains this year.
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Capitol
Washington
D.C
Lyndon Johnson
Dallas
Texas
John Kennedy
William Henry Harrison
Benjamin Harrison
Grover Cleveland
Harrison