But it's really something more than that." "When you think about it, the word 'transition period' just conjures up something bureaucratic. And these were just traditions that developed," Goodwin said. "They're not in the Constitution – a concession speech, a congratulatory call." "Those rituals, few of them are mandated by law," Rocca said. Roosevelt tips his top hat while sitting in the back of a car with former President Herbert Hoover at the Inauguration in Washington, D.C., March 4, 1933.Īnd that ride is just one of the traditions we've come to expect during the transition season. So, it may not have been, you know, the most friendly of transitions, but they were trying to work together." President Franklin D. "But Hoover did ride in the car?" Rocca asked. Hoover had suffered a humiliating defeat, and according to Goodwin, the ride he shared with FDR to the Capitol on Inauguration Day 1933 was "very frosty." "It's hard to imagine – I mean, Franklin Roosevelt really did not know in January and February and March whether the government could collapse before he even had a chance to put his own programs into use," Goodwin said. And then, within the matter of weeks after that, seven states secede from the Union."ĭuring the Great Depression, as Franklin Delano Roosevelt waited to take the reins from lame duck Herbert Hoover, the country itself was on life support. "I can't even imagine what it was like during the period of time between Buchanan and Lincoln," said Goodwin. After Abraham Lincoln's election in November 1860, he had to wait four months (back then the Inauguration wasn't until March) before President James Buchanan vacated the premises. Goodwin said, "Originally, the purpose of the waiting period was to give time for the new president to get from wherever they were to Washington, D.C., and that purpose seems to be less necessary today given modern transportation."īut 2020 isn't the first tumultuous transition. One had bolted having kicked and lamed one of the verderers who had tried to hold it.To many people, the 78 days between November 3 and January 20 are feeling like 78 years … which raises the question, why is this period so long?.It was Crane who had been lamed and the question arose how they were to use the horses.→ See Verb table Examples from the Corpus lame lame lame 2 verb INJURE to make a person or animal unable to walk properly SYN cripple He was lamed in the accident. The door is falling off its hinges a sheet of plastic makes a lame attempt to keep out the wind.I don't want to hear any of your lame excuses for being late.She's always got some lame excuse for being late.It may be desirable to spend what could otherwise be dole money on temporarily subsidizing lame ducks to ease the transition.And while that makes him a lame duck, he still has his veto pen and his bully pulpit.It sounded lame but I really had lost my ticket.Movement is always hard to assess at this age, but avoid any puppy who moves erratically or is obviously lame!.In Lexington's case her parents and grandparents had good hips and she is not lame.the company’s lame performance - lameness noun Examples from the Corpus lame a lame attempt to deflect criticism → lamely 3 informal boring or not very good SYN poor A lot of the songs on this album are a bit lame. From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English lame lame 1 / leɪm / adjective 1 INJURE a) unable to walk properly because your leg or foot is injured or weak a lame dog go lame (=become lame ) b) the lame people who are lame 2 BELIEVE a lame excuse or explanation is weak and difficult to believe lame excuse/explanation She gave some lame excuse about missing the bus.
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