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| Two Days And Counting: Bush
Readies For Inauguration 宣誓就职 |
 President
Elect George W. Bush waves goodbye to friends in Midland, Texas,
as he leaves for Washington January 17, 2000 to attend his presidential
inauguration to be held on January 20. Midland, in the oil country
of west Texas, was Bush's boyhood home.
WASHINGTON - Standing resolute
behind his controversial nominee for attorney general, President-elect
George W. Bush rallies Republican supporters in Washington on Thursday
as he prepares for his inauguration
on Saturday.
Bush arrived in Washington on Wednesday evening after an emotional farewell to his home state of Texas, where he described public service as a "noble calling" and vowed to end "all the partisan bickering and name calling and anger" in Washington.
But the mood on Capitol Hill remained charged as Senate confirmation hearings for former Missouri Sen. John Ashcroft stretched into a third day and the black judge whose nomination to the federal bench Ashcroft blocked prepared to testify.
Missouri Supreme Court Justice Ronnie White on Thursday will discuss what he and others contend was Ashcroft's unfair characterization of him as "pro-criminal" in 1999 when Ashcroft helped deny him a spot on the federal bench.
Bush shrugged off the fierce
rhetoric about Ashcroft, telling
ABC's Barbara Walters in excerpts
of an interview aired on Wednesday, "I know there's a lot of people
out there hollering, mainly voices of special interests in Washington.
... They're paid to create noise and emotion."
Ashcroft on Wednesday vowed that if confirmed he would enforce all the nation's laws, even ones he disagrees with, such as the Supreme Court's 1973 decision legalizing abortion, but some Democratic senators remained deeply skeptical.
Despite the often heated volleys, Ashcroft is expected to be approved as attorney general soon after Senate confirmation hearings wrap up, probably on Friday.
Bush was due to kick off his day with an intelligence briefing at Blair House, the official U.S. guest residence across from the White House, before addressing the winter meeting of the Republican National Committee.
Sure to be on his agenda is the spiraling electricity crisis in
California, where citizens were bracing for a second day of possible
blackouts on Thursday amid
unprecedented chaos in the state's power supplies.
Before kicking off the first of three days of inauguration festivities with a concert at the Lincoln Memorial on Thursday afternoon, Bush was slated to continue rehearsing his 10-12 minute inaugural address with the aid of a TelePrompTer.
Spokesman Ari Fleischer underscored the importance of Bush's inaugural speech, telling reporters the Texas governor would "talk about a unified nation" as he sought to deliver on his campaign promise to be "a uniter, not a divider."
Summary
美国时间1月20号，刚刚当选的美国新一任总统小布什就要宣誓就职，正式从克林顿手中接过权杖了。那么在这个时候，他是怎么样的一种心情呢？当他彩排就职演说的时候，有没有一点紧张的情绪呢？不过至少有一点可以肯定，他这几天的日程肯定是已经安排的满满的啦。
Words
resolute [adj] 坚决的
inauguration [n] 就职典礼，开幕式
shrug [v] 耸肩
shrug off [v] 耸肩表示蔑视, 抖去, 摆脱
rhetoric [adj] 花言巧语的
excerpt [n] 摘录，引用
blackout [n] 灯火管制
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