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UPDATED: Today’s Barack Obama Inauguration Schedule With Times

Posted by JOE GANDELMAN, Editor-In-Chief in At TMV.
Jan 20th, 2009 | Comments

Yesterday we ran a schedule for today’s inauguration of Barack Obama as the 44th President of the United States. Here’s an updated schedule:

» 8:25 a.m.: Obamas leave Blair House for prayer service at St. John’s Episcopal Church

» 8:35 a.m.: Prayer service

» 9:45 a.m.: Church service ends; Obamas leave for the White House

» 10:05 a.m.: Obamas arrive at White House for coffee with Bushes

» 11 a.m.: Motorcade leaves for Capitol

» 11:30 a.m.: Bushes and Obamas go to platform on the West Front; California Senator Dianne Feinstein issues call to order and deliver brief welcoming remarks, followed by invocation from Dr. Rick Warren and performance by Aretha Franklin.

» 11:50 a.m.: Joe Biden sworn in as vice president by Supreme Court Justice John Stevens

» 12 p.m.: Barack Obama sworn in as president by Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts.

» 12:05 p.m.: Inaugural address, followed by a poem written and recited by Elizabeth Alexander and a benediction from Dr. Joseph Lowery.

» 12:30 p.m.: Ceremony concludes

» 12:35 p.m.: Bush departs via helicopter; Cheney departs by limo

» 12:45 p.m.: Obama signs inauguration papers in President’s Room

» 1:00 p.m.: Obama attends congressional luncheon

» 2:15 p.m.: Obama and Biden review troops at Capitol

» 2:30 p.m.: President Obama leads parade from the Capitol along Pennsylvania Avenue to the White House

» 3:15 p.m.: Arrival at White House

» 3:45 p.m.: Obamas and Bidens proceed to the reviewing stand; inaugural parade continues until 6 p.m.

» 7 p.m.: The official inaugural balls begin with the Neighborhood Ball at the Washington Convention Center.