The oath of office will be administered to Barack Obama and Joseph Biden on the steps of the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C., on January 20, 2009.

A Sampling of 20th Century Political Speech: The Presidents of the United States swear their inaugural oaths. Scott Carrier has friends across from the White House in "Lafayette Square." Dave Eggers snaps a "Family Photo Opp" in brother Bill's campaign Hummer. Joe Frank's "Presidential Candidate" is just like us - and that's scary. Jesse Boggs and the Bush Administration do the "WMD Waltz."

On January 20, 2005, George W. Bush took the oath of office to become the nation's 16th second-term president. The President's 17-minute speech focused on themes of hope and freedom. Near freezing temperatures did not discourage the more than a half million spectators who gathered to see the swearing in at the West Front of the Capital and the traditional parade. In the first presidential inauguration ceremony since 9/11, the security in Washington, D.C. was extremely tight.

On January 20, 2005, George W. Bush took the oath of office to become the nation's 16th second-term president. The President's 17-minute speech focused on themes of hope and freedom. In the first presidential inauguration ceremony since 9/11, the security in Washington, D.C. was extremely tight. The audio of this ceremony was presented by the Associated Press with voice-over from their reporters in Washington, D.C.

Renewal and reform were the prevalent themes of Bill Clinton's first inaugural address in 1993. Clinton also issued a challenge to the nation's youth to "act on [their] idealism" through positive activism.

In his 1957 inauguration speech, Dwight D. Eisenhower addressed the threats and problems posed to the world by "International Communism". Eisenhower asked that the United States "help others rise from misery, however far the scene of suffering may be from our shores".

On March 4, 1933, Franklin Delano Roosevelt was inaugurated as the 32nd President of the United States. Assuming the Presidency at the depth of the Great Depression, Roosevelt helped the American people regain faith in themselves and asserted in his Inaugural Address, "the only thing we have to fear is fear itself". By the time of his inauguration, there were 13,000,000 unemployed Americans, and almost every bank was closed.

In his 1989 inaugural address, George H.W. Bush reiterated his "a thousand points of light" theme and spoke of "harnessing the unused talent of the elderly and the unfocused energy of the young". Bush also called for an end to partisanship and promised to put an end to the scourge of drugs.

In his 2001 inaugural address, George W. Bush speaks of a compassionate America united not by blood, birth, or soil, but by "ideals that move us beyond our backgrounds, lift us above our interests and teach us what it means to be citizens."

After Richard Nixon's resignation in the wake of the Watergate scandal, Gerald Ford was sworn in as president on August 9, 1974, in a ceremony in the East Room of the White House. In his speech, Ford reassured Americans that "truth is the glue that holds government together" and claimed that "our long national nightmare is over".