Reply #26: Great point. FDR set the right example in 1945...

[stevedeshazer]

"The fourth inauguration was conducted without fanfare. Because of the expense and impropriety of festivity during the height of war, the oath of office was taken on the South Portico of the White House. It was administered by Chief Justice Harlan Stone. No formal celebrations followed the address."

http://www.bartleby.com/124/pres52.html