Opinion | How About a Smaller Inauguration?
To the Editor: We are fighting two threatening wars: Covid-19 and civil unrest. As currently planned, our next president’s inauguration will take place surrounded by heavily armed protection — 20,000 National Guard troops and assorted barriers, a ceremony conducted inside a virtual fortress. Nevertheless, safety for all is never guaranteed. How will the sky above be protected? As an alternative, as President Franklin D. Roosevelt did during World War II in 1945, the inauguration could be he...
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