If you have any sort of affinity towards politics, then you are just as excited as I am about the upcoming Inauguration! Here are some fun facts brought to you by Yahoo Voices:

• Since Ronald Reagan’s Inauguration ceremony in 1981, the ceremony has happened on the Capitol’s west front. Since then, children and adults have come to recognize the the steps at the Capital as the place where presidents get sworn in
• George Washington gave the shortest inauguration speech on March 4, 1793. The speech was only 135 words long! He must not have had much to say
• Barack H. Obama’s inauguration ceremony was the largest attendance of any event held in Washington D.C.
• Following John F. Kennedy’s assassination, security was tighter than ever for Lyndon Baines Johnson. He was took his oath to office Air Force One
• Richard M. Nixon took the oath of office on two Bibles. They were family heirlooms
• On March 4, 1897, William McKinley was the first president to have the Inaugural ceremony recorded by a motion picture camera
•  On March 4, 1837, Martin Van Buren was the first person elected president who wasn’t born a British subject
• On March 4, 1801, Washington D.C. had its first inaugural ceremony. Thomas Jefferson became president that day
• On the first time anti-counterfeiting security was designed into the tickets was during the Fifty-Fifth Inaugural Ceremonies for George W. Bush’s
• In 1949, President Harry Truman was the first president to be sworn into office on television