An almost palpable sense of relief and a back-to-normal demeanor seemed to return to official Washington when Joe Biden took office.
ON A CHILLY DAY IN Washington, Joe Biden raised his hand and lowered the temperature.
The nation’s 46th president talked about unity and healing as he took the oath of office, a message received warmly by a bipartisan group of lawmakers assembled on what was still a crime scene, the grounds hastily repaired for the inauguration after being vandalized by insurrectionists.
“Speaking of unity can sound to some like a foolish fantasy these days,” Biden said in his inaugural address. But “without unity, there is no peace, only bitterness and fury. No progress, only exhausting outrage. No nation, only a state of chaos,” the president said, standing in front of a building that had been the site of violent riots just two weeks ago.
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“Let’s start afresh. Let us start to listen to each other again,” said Biden, who served 36 years in a Senate that once was known as a friendly and clubby place. “Politics doesn’t have to be a raging fire, destroying everything in its path.”
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Instead of delivering a treatise-like speech full of flowery rhetoric and ambitious policy goals, Biden talked as though he were in all of America’s living rooms, prefacing his statements with “look, folks” and speaking directly to his constituents — including, he noted, the 74 million people who voted for the other candidate.
After asking for a silent prayer for those lost to the COVID-19 pandemic, Biden noted the cluster of problems the country faces, including the threat to America’s very democracy.
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“Any one of these would be enough to challenge us in profound ways. Now we are going to be tested. Are we going to step up? All of us? It is time for boldness,” Biden said. “If we do this, when our days are through, our children and our children’s children will say of us, they did their best. They did their duty. They healed a broken land.”
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WASHINGTON, DC — JANUARY 20: U.S. President-elect Joe Biden and Jill Biden arrive to Biden’s inauguration on the West Front of the U.S. Capitol on January 20, 2021 in Washington, DC. During today’s inauguration ceremony Joe Biden becomes the 46th president of the United States. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)
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In many ways, the scene betrayed the terrible realities of the times: Tens of thousands of police and military personnel patrolled the area, a response to worries about a domestic terror attack. The boisterous crowds, eager souvenir sellers and celebratory parade were absent, a sign of the still-raging pandemic. The former president left in an unabashed snit, refusing to attend Biden’s swearing-in and still failing to concede he lost the election even as he delivered farewell remarks at Joint Base Andrews.
But beneath it all, there was an almost palpable sense of relief and a back-to-normal demeanor among the officials who ran, or will now run, Washington. Despite the deliberate snub by former President Donald Trump and the limits imposed on inaugural activities, many Republican members of Congress attended the inauguration and applauded the new president, later issuing statements wishing the new administration well and pledging to work together.
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After four years of Trump dominance — his voice, his tweets and his fiery rally speeches virtually impossible to escape — it was, on the day Biden took over, as if Trump were gone completely. Banned by Twitter and bereft of the bully pulpit any president has while in office, Trump’s influence seemed to fade in concert with his physical departure from Washington.
The Trump-less inaugural was a dignified and cordial affair. Former Presidents Bill Clinton, Barack Obama and George W. Bush chatted amiably. Ninety-six-year-old former President Jimmy Carter could not attend, but Biden said in his speech the two men had spoken the previous evening. The former presidents and their spouses later joined the Bidens, Harris and Harris’s husband, Doug Emhoff, to lay a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery.
There was joy, too, over the historic nature of Vice President Kamala Harris’ swearing-in, as attendees were reminded of the stubborn endurance of the American story.
Weeks after attackers, including white supremacists, sought to stop the new administration from taking office, a Puerto Rican Supreme Court Justice, Sonia Sotomayor, issued the oath of office to Harris, the first woman and first Black and Asian American to hold the office of vice president.
The mob attack earlier this month “awakened us to our responsibilities as Americans,” Sen. Amy Klobuchar, a Minnesotan who had challenged Biden for the Democratic nomination and became one of his most loyal advocates, said at the inaugural. “This is the day our democracy picks itself up, brushes off the dust, and does what America always does: goes forward as a nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.”
GOP Sen. Roy Blunt, whose congressional service spans 24 years, noted that the insurrection “reminds us all that a government designed to balance and check itself is both fragile and resilient. People all over the world are watching, and will watch, what we do here,” he added.
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Inside the Capitol after the inaugural speeches, Democratic and Republican leaders welcomed the first and second couples, giving them gifts from the two chambers.
“I’m glad we can still carry out our favorite inaugural traditions,” Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell said. In a verbal elbow-ribbing that recalled a friendlier time on the Hill, McConnell noted that both Biden and Harris were children of the Senate, and “both of these former senators skipped the House altogether.”
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi acknowledged that fact but said she reveled in the honor of giving Biden the flag that was flown over the Capitol when he was sworn in.
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“May it be a symbol of the hope, the healing and just all of the enthusiasm you have for your country,” she said.
When House Majority Whip Steny Hoyer directed his remarks to “Mr. President, while looking at a man he has known for decades, Biden appeared to tell him to call him Joe. “Not Joe — you’re Mr. President,” the Maryland Democrat said.
House GOP Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy noted that fellow Californian Harris “made history” Wednesday, and “all Americans should celebrate that.” The man who just two weeks ago objected to the Electoral College results showing Biden had won was far more cooperative-sounding Wednesday as he welcomed the new White House team.
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“Let’s go forward here together, accomplish great things,” McCarthy said.
Newly installed as the White House press secretary, Jen Psaki tweeted a request for questions, pledging to respond in a video this week. She also scheduled a 7 p.m. press briefing — a dramatic change from a Trump White House that last had a briefing Dec. 15 and which went a year without a formal briefing.
Biden, too, issued his first tweet as president of the United States — and it had none of the vitriol or rhetorical attacks levied on the same platform by his predecessor.
“Today, the work begins,” Biden tweeted.
After being driven to his new home in the presidential limousine — “The Beast,” as it is called, with the new license plate “46” on it — Biden trotted over to greet journalists shouting questions at him about how it feels to be president, a job he won after three tries.
“Good. It feels good,” Biden said.
Susan Milligan, Senior Politics Writer
Susan Milligan is senior political writer at U.S. News & World Report. She has covered … READ MORE
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