Presidential Inaugural Committee Announces Theme
Roll Call Staff
The Presidential Inaugural Committee announced Wednesday the official theme for President-elect Barack Obama’s inauguration: “Renewing America’s Promise.”
The theme reflects Obama and Vice President-elect Joseph Biden’s “commitment to restoring opportunity and possibility for all and re-establishing America’s standing as a beacon of hope around the world,” according to a press release.
It’s the inauguration’s second theme so far. The first theme — “A New Birth of Freedom,” which is a quote from President Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address — was announced by the Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies about a month ago.
While the two committees work closely together, they always set different themes, PIC spokeswoman Linda Douglass said.
The Congressional theme will be reflected in the actual inauguration and a subsequent luncheon, while the president’s theme will show up in the surrounding events organized by his committee.
The president-elect’s theme reflects his own message — in this case, according to a statement from Obama, “a sense of unity and shared purpose.”
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