>> Hi. My name is Michelle Krowl, and I'm
the Civil War and Reconstruction Specialist
in the Manuscript Division
at the Library of Congress.
Many people may not know that for
quite a while in presidential history,
presidential inaugurations typically occurred
on March 4, much of that probably being
because of the difficulty
in transportation as well.
But before you had airplanes and high
speed trains, it took a little bit longer,
so there was a much longer period of time
between the election and the inauguration.
The last president to be inaugurated on March 4
was Franklin Delano Roosevelt in his first term.
That time was shortened, and the
inauguration date was set for January 20.
So FDR is the last president
to be inaugurated on March 4
and the first president to
be inaugurated on January 20.