this is more interesting.
"This isn’t the first time that a presidential inauguration occurred as flags flew at half-staff to honor a former president.
Then-President
Richard Nixon — after the death of
Harry S. Truman on Dec. 26, 1972 — took the oath of office for a second term on Jan. 20, 1973, as the D.C. sky was “heavy with gray clouds” while flags flew at half-staff and the sounds of a protest could be heard faintly in the distance,
Time magazine reported.
Nixon’s predecessor, former President
Lyndon B. Johnson, would go on to die of a heart attack just two days later,
which caused Nixon to call for flags to fly at half-staff for another 30 days."
