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United Press International
WASHINGTON — Ronald Wilson Reagan, 69, Hol
lywood screen star, California governor, staunch con
servative, becomes 40th president of the United States
Tuesday — repeating the same 35-word oath George
Washington spoke in 1789.
The oath is one of the few similarities between the
Washington and Reagan inaugurals. Washington re
jected a proposal that he be crowned king, but the $8
million extravaganza ushering in Reagan comes as close
as anything in America to a coronation.
The inaugural—twice as costly as President Carter’s,
but paid for almost entirely by private funds — is being
billed by some as having more stars and razzle-dazzle
than any show ever put on in Hollywood, New York or
Nashville.
Reagan — the oldest first-term president — spent
more than one-third of his life living and acting in Holly
wood and married two of his leading ladies. Show busi
ness is turning out in force to honor the first actor to
become president.
Frank Sinatra, Johnny Carson, Bob Hope, Ethel
Merman, Charlton Heston, Dean Martin, Debby
Boone, Rich Little, Jimmy Stewart, Mikhail Barysh
nikov, Donny and Marie Osmond, Charlie Pride, Ben
Vereen, Michael Landon, Elizabeth Taylor, Anthony
Newley, Ray Charles, Glen Campbell, Tanya Tucker,
Lou l4wls, Tony Bennett, Doc Severinsen, Woody
Herman, Lionel Hampton, Patti Page, Pat Boone, Har
ry James, Fred Waring and the Mormon Tabernacle
Choir.
Those are just a few of the names that are playing the
nation’s capital for Ronald Reagan in the Saturday-
through-Tuesday inaugural spectacular.
But the four-day inaugural spread — filled with
concerts, balls, parties and fireworks — represents
much more than just Hollywood comes to Washington
and the return of top hat and tails formality eschewed by
Carter’s Georgia mafia.
It marks the launching of the most conservative
government the nation has seen in nearly three decades,
an end to John Kennedy’s New Frontier and Lyndon
Johnson’s Great Society, and some say, the death of
Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal.
Reagan and Vice President-elect George Bush come
to office backed by what Republicans see as a sweeping
mandate to slash government spending, boost the milit
ary budget and cut income taxes as much as 30 percent
over three years.
Reagan’s landslide victory over a sitting president
was viewed as a dramatic rejection not only of Carter,
but a decade of high inflation, high unemployment,
soaring gasoline prices and a perception by voters that
the American dream was slipping away.
“When you go into the voting booth, ask yourself,
“Are you really better off than you were four years ago?”’
Reagan said in perhaps his most effective campaign line.
The voters answered a resounding “No!”
Now, 11 weeks after election day, the inauguration
stands as a four-day holiday between the difficult task of
assembling a cast of thousands to take over the govern-
The inaugural — twice as costly as
President Carter’s, but paid for
almost entirely by private funds—is
being billed by some as having more
stars and razzle-dazzle than any
show ever put on in Hollywood, New
York or Nashville.
ment and the more difficult task of running it for four
years.
To Washington have come Ronald Reagan’s 68,000
closest political friends to spend an estimated $10 mil
lion a day — $40 million in all — to celebrate his finest
hour and do for the economy of the capital what the new
president hopes to do for the nation.
Critics who have questioned the extravagance are
reminded that only the $650,000 cost of the actual
swearing-in ceremony at the Capitol is borne by the
taxpayers — and that part of the show is controlled by a
Congress under split political control.
The $8 million the Reagan inaugural committee has
spent comes from charging $100 to dance at an inaugural
ball, up to $150 to see Sinatra, Carson, et al, at an
inaugural gala, and other events. Then there are gener
ous private donations, including many from big busi
ness, which is prohibited by law from contributing to
campaigns.
An “average” couple coming to town for four days,
staying in hotel rooms that easily cost $100 a night,
eating in Washington restaurants, renting a limousine
for the inaugural ball, buying the tickets necessary for
various functions and souvenirs to take home to the kids
will spend about $2,000 to help Reagan celebrate.
But the inauguration is not just for the fat cats. There
is free concerts at various Smithsonian museums, two
free fireworks displays and special exhibits all around
town. And, of course, it doesn’t cost anything to stand on
the Capitol grounds for the swearing-in ceremony
(although the first 17,000 seats are reserved for VIPs).
Reagan’s inauguration formally opened in the cold
and darkness of Saturday night outside the familiar
memorial to the nation’s first Republican president,
Abraham Lincoln.
With Reagan and Bush in attendence and Efrem
Zimbalist Jr. presiding, the*Army band played a special
ly composed inaugural march and the Mormon Taberna
cle Choir sang patriotic and inspirational songs, includ
ing the “Battle Hymn of the Republic,” while the largest
fireworks display in the history of the nation’s capital was
shot off outside.
Open to the public, it was the most extravagant
opening ceremony ever — planned by the man who,
among other things, opened Disneyland in California a
quarter-century ago.
Reagan’s was in red, white and blue, while Carter
used his green and white campaign colors.
The first private function — to which 23,000 persons
were invited — was the governors’ reception Sunday
afternoon at a large downtown hotel. The three-hour
event opened with the governors, one-by-one, walking
down a cascade of steps to a trumpet fanfare.
On Sunday afternoon, Fred Waring and his Pennsyl
vanians, who have been entertaining Americans for
more than half a century, held a farewell concert at
Constitution Hall.
Sunday night could have been dubbed “culture
night” for the inauguration, with three performances
held in the three large concert halls of the Kennedy
Center — each preceded and succeeded by candlelight
dinners.
A combined opera and ballet program featured
Mikhail Baryshnikov, director of the American Ballet
Theater; Suzanne Farrell and Peter Martins of the New
York City Ballet; and an opera program directed by
Loren Maazel which featured mezzo-soprano Marilyn
Home.
The finale was a concert by the National Symphony
Orchestra under the baton of Mstislav Rostropovich,
featuring pianist Rudolf Serkin.
Today begins with a joint reception honoring Nancy
Reagan and Barbara Bush, again in the Kennedy Cen
ter, with 6,500 guests. Official bands from all four bran
ches of the military services will perform.
Bush, the former U.N. ambassador and liaison to
China, holds a SVa-hour vice president’s reception this
afternoon in one of the Smithsonian museums.
Then the real entertainment begins.
While “young people” attend a Beach Boys concert
downtown, some 20,000 Reagan faithful will pay $100 to
$150 to pack a sports arena outside Washington for the
inaugural gala.
That event — televised live by ABC — features
Carson as master of ceremonies, and Hope, Martin,
Sinatra, Merman and the other stars, as well as Gen.
Omar Bradley, the nation’s only surviving five-star gen
eral.
Inauguration Day begins with a private church ser
vice at St. John Epsicopal Church — the church of the
presidents’ across Lafayette Square from the White
House.
At 11 a. m., the president-elect and Mrs. Reagan go to
the White House to join President and Mrs. Carter for
the long ride up Pennsylvania Avenue to the Capitol
that traditionally marks the change of administrations.
Incumbents and successors have been said to not
speak to each other on this awkward journey along the
avenue of presidents.
At noon — as prescribed in the Constitution —
Reagan will intone the oath every president has taken,
administered by Chief Justice Warren Burger.
Reagan’s inaugural address will follow. It will be short
— Reagan says 15 minutes.
Watching the ceremony will be 50 governors, mem
bers of Congress, the diplomatic corps and Medal of
Honor winners and a television audience of millions.
Then comes what for many in the television audience
is the highlight — the traditional parade down Pennsyl
vania Avenue.
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CHICAGO — Illinois state Sen. Jeremiah E. Joyce says he has the
answer to handling poor and unemployed people — ship them to other
states.
Joyce, a Democrat from Chicago, said Thursday he plans to intro
duce legislation to authorize paying people on public assistance and
unemployment comoensation to relocate in other states.
The bill will be introduced in the state Senate in early February,
Joyce said during taping of a radio program. He said the legislation
would allow state payments of $4,000 to $5,000 to persons relocating in
other states as “start-up expenses.”
State unemployment compensation can total as much as $9,000 a
yw per person, Joyce said.
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