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JOE BIDEN JURA COMO 46º PRESIDENTE DE ESTADOS UNIDOS
“La democracia ha ganado” El mandatario toma posesión en un emotivo acto en el Capitolio, asaltado hace dos semanas AMANDA MARS, Washington Joseph Robinette Biden (Scranton, Pensilvania, 78 años) es desde ayer el 46º presidente de Estados Unidos. El país cierra así la convul-
El demócrata promete volver a unir el país tras el desgarro de los cuatro años de Trump
sa era de Donald Trump y abre una nueva etapa. Tras jurar el cargo en el mismo Capitolio asaltado hace dos semanas, en un acto emotivo, aunque limitado por la pande-
mia, Biden lanzó un mensaje de unidad. “Hemos aprendido que la democracia es un bien precioso y frágil, pero la democracia ha ganado”, dijo. Kamala Harris, que se
Kamala Harris asume la vicepresidencia con un gesto hacia las “mujeres que vinieron antes”
convirtió en la primera vicepresidenta del país más poderoso del mundo, reconoció a las “mujeres que vinieron antes”. PÁGINAS 2 A 8 EDITORIAL EN LA PÁGINA 12
Administrar 100 millones de vacunas, entre los retos para los primeros 100 días PABLO GUIMÓN, Washington Biden quiere responder rápido a sus grandes desafíos. De entrada, acelerará la vacunación de la covid para alcanzar a 100 millones de ciudadanos en sus primeros 100 días. Prevé además un plan de estímulos económicos y una vía para la residencia legal de 11 millones de personas. PÁGINA 5
Trump indulta a su exasesor Steve Bannon y a otras 142 personas antes de su salida
Joe Biden jura sobre la Biblia el cargo junto a su esposa Jill y en presencia del presidente del Supremo, John Roberts. / SAUL LOEB (AFP)
M. A. SÁNCHEZ-VALLEJO, Nueva York Donald Trump indultó ayer a Steve Bannon, su exasesor e ideólogo de movimientos populistas en todo el mundo, acusado de fraude al recaudar fondos para el muro con México. Es uno de los 143 indultos y conmutaciones de pena que firmó en sus últimas horas como presidente. PÁGINA 6
Una gran explosión en el centro de Madrid causa tres muertos
Sanidad rechaza el adelanto del toque de queda que reclaman nueve autonomías
El siniestro se originó por el estallido de una caldera de gas en un centro parroquial
PABLO LINDE, Madrid El Ministerio de Sanidad rechazó ayer la petición de nueve comunidades de adelantar el toque de queda más pronto de las diez de la noche, que es lo que permite el decreto del estado de alarma. Andalucía y Galicia pidieron también poder imponer confinamientos domiciliarios. El ministro Illa sugirió recurrir a otras medidas como limitar la actividad de la restauración o el comercio. PÁGINA 22
M. VIEJO / B. FERRERO, Madrid Una gran explosión en los alrededores de la Puerta de Toledo, en pleno centro de Madrid, causó ayer tres muertos y siete heridos. El edificio de siete plantas que alberga el centro parroquial de la
Virgen de la Paloma quedó destrozado por el estallido de una caldera de gas que se estaba revisando, según fuentes de Emergencias y de la Policía. “Fue como un terremoto; pensé que era una bomba”, dijo un testigo. MADRID
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46th president calls for unity as a bold challenge to a nation torn by crises By Janet Hook and Jennifer Haberkorn
Kent Nishimura Los Angeles Times
PRESIDENT BIDEN, after being sworn in by Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., soon got to work reversing controversial Trump policies.
Message of healing and fight for truth
‘Walking to work,’ blazing a trail
By David Lauter and Tyrone Beason
By Noah Bierman and Melanie Mason
WASHINGTON — There was never a doubt President Biden would call for unity at his swearing-in — the declaration that “we are the United States of America” peppered his speeches throughout the long presidential campaign. “Unity” appeared a dozen times in Wednesday’s 21-minute speech and as the topic of a proclamation for a Day of Unity that the new president signed shortly after he took the oath. But at an inauguration surrounded by troops and high fences, amid unprecedented levels of security to protect against potential attack by supporters of his defeated predecessor, in the shadow of a Capitol still marred by a deadly riot just two weeks ago, Biden this time coupled those calls with something sterner: “The recent weeks and months have taught us a [See Analysis, A8]
WASHINGTON — Kamala Devi Harris strutted between the metal barricades and the sparse crowd along Pennsylvania Avenue, clutching her grandniece’s hand and waving at cheering supporters. As she approached the White House, she locked arms with her husband and walked between the gates and up the stairs of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, the trumpets blaring as she made history. For the first time since the country’s founding, a woman — a daughter of immigrants from India and Jamaica — was entering the heart of American power as vice president. “Just walking to work,” she said along the way, laughing. It was one of many scaled-down moments Wednesday, an Inauguration Day for Harris that was [See Harris, A13]
ANALYSIS
Kirk McKoy Los Angeles Times
KAMALA HARRIS walks to the White House after the inauguration. In a
landmark first, a woman entered the heart of American power as vice president.
THE INAUGURATION OF PRESIDENT BIDEN
‘We’re going to be OK’
Exiting on his terms
Many Americans view Biden and Harris with joy and hope. Others are skeptical. NATION, A8
Former President Trump skips the ceremony for a small rally before leaving office. NATION, A5
Peaceful transition
Divas on the dais
The day proceeds quietly in a heavily fortified capital braced for the worst. NATION, A14
Lady Gaga and Jennifer Lopez bring dazzling vocal flair to patriotic classics. CALENDAR, E1
Al Seib Los Angeles Times
WASHINGTON — Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. was inaugurated as the 46th president of the United States on Wednesday, assuming office amid several crises after routing a predecessor who fought to stay in power, and clearing the way for a beleaguered nation to turn the page on one of the most divisive chapters in its political history. Before taking his oath on the Capitol’s West Front, Biden saw a historic barrier shattered as Kamala Harris, formerly a senator from California, was sworn in as the first woman, Black person and South Asian American to become vice president. Sonia Sotomayor, the first Latina Supreme Court justice, administered Harris’ oath. In his inaugural address, Biden tried to rally the country to meet the historic challenges of COVID-19, a struggling economy, racial tensions and political divisions that have provoked violence and death. “To overcome these challenges, to restore the soul and secure the future of America, requires so much more than words and requires the most elusive of all things in a democracy: unity,” the new Democratic president said. Calling for unity is an inaugural staple, but Biden’s appeal resonated due to the country’s dire straits. He plainly was banking on Americans’ desire to transcend politics and find ways to quell extremists’ violence, control the pandemic, rebuild the economy and, even for some Republicans, put the Trump era behind them. Without ever naming former President Trump in his 21-minute address, Biden made pointed note of the lingering damage from his predecessor’s postelection campaign to stay in power, which tested the foundations of democracy — damage that was literally evident in places throughout the Capitol, which had been violently invaded just 14 days before by supporters of the outgoing Republican president. “We have learned again that democracy is precious, democracy is fragile, and at this hour, democracy has prevailed,” the new president said. Still, Biden’s message most likely fell flat among the many Republicans who, swayed by Trump’s false claims that the election was rigged against him, refuse to accept the legitimacy of Biden’s presidency. “At this moment, we are a divided country,” said Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-N.Y.), one of those in Congress who backed Trump’s efforts to overturn the election result. Biden’s address, while urging conciliation, was laden with stinging implied indictments of his prede[See Biden, A9]
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THE 46TH PRESIDENT
‘DEMOCRACY HAS PREVAILED’: BIDEN VOWS TO MEND NATION
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President Biden and Jill Biden, the first lady, in front of the White House on Wednesday as they prepared to become its newest inhabitants. Mr. Biden signed 17 executive actions on his first day in office.
A President Forged by Setbacks as Much as by His Success Taking Reins of Country By LISA LERER
As a child, Joseph R. Biden Jr. wrestled with words, grappling with a boyhood stutter. Years later, as a young politician, he couldn’t stop saying them, quickly developing a reputation for longwinded remarks. It was words that undercut his first two campaigns for the White House, with charges of plagiarism ending his 1988 bid and verbal missteps that hampered his 2008 outing from nearly the first moments. And it was his self-described penchant for being a “gaffe machine,” as he once put it,
that would cement his vice-presidential nickname of “Uncle Joe,” the endearing relative who prompts the occasional wince. Through a nearly half-centurylong political career marked by personal tragedy and forged in national upheaval, Mr. Biden’s struggle with his own words has remained a central fact of his professional life, and of the ambition he harbored for nearly as long, the White House. Yet over the course of the 2020 campaign, and especially in the two months since his victory, Mr. Biden, the nation’s 46th president, has transformed himself into a steady hand who chooses words
‘Take a Measure of Me and My Heart,’ He Asks of America with extraordinary restraint. The self-described “scrappy kid from Scranton,” who called President Trump a “clown” and told him to “shut up” during their first debate, refused to take the political bait laid by Mr. Trump for weeks after the election with his attempts to overturn the results. Rather than get sucked into the
Trumpian chaos, Mr. Biden focused on announcing his cabinet and helping his party win two runoff races in Georgia. And with a second impeachment trial looming in the Senate, Mr. Biden, 78, has maintained his steadfast faith in the political center, positioning himself as a champion of all Americans and a deal maker between the left and the right. “There’s more of a sense of a calm resolve now,” said Representative Lisa Blunt Rochester, Democrat of Delaware, who has known Mr. Biden for decades and served as a co-chair of his campaign. “Even the words that he Continued on Page A14
Transfer of Power Brings Respite A Call for the Return of Civility, To City Where a Mob Held Sway And Truth as a Guiding Light By MARK LEIBOVICH
By DAVID E. SANGER
WASHINGTON — Quite a difference between two chilly Wednesdays in January: Under a crystalline Inauguration Day sky and a bunting-draped Capitol, the Marine Band welcomed the 46th president into office with a procession of fanfares — in the same spot that a mob answering the call of the 45th had ransacked the building two weeks earlier to try to stop this transfer of power. There was no mention of Donald J. Trump, the departed and deplatformed commander in chief who flew out of town early in the morning as the first president in 152 years to refuse to attend the swearing-in of his successor. Whether or not related to the former president’s absence, a bipartisan lightness seemed to prevail across the stage. Snow flurries gave way to sun and an aura distinctly serene. Senator Mitch McConnell, the Republican leader, and now former Vice President Mike Pence — both close allies of Mr. Trump who broke bitterly with him in his final days — were seen cracking grins, even chuckling with their counterparts in the opposing party. Supreme Court justices greeted former presidents with elbow
WASHINGTON — In the end, the inauguration triumphed over the insurrection. President Biden’s plea for national unity in his Inaugural Address on WednesNEWS day was rooted in a ANALYSIS belief — born of decades working inside the fractious institutions of government — that America can return to an era where “enough of us have come together to carry all of us forward.” It was a call for the restoration of the ordinary discord of democracy, with a reminder that “politics doesn’t have to be a raging fire, destroying everything in its path.” The words were made all the more potent because they were delivered from the same steps at the entrance to the Capitol where a violent attack two weeks ago shocked the nation into realizing the lengths to which some Americans would go to overturn the results of a democratic election. Mr. Biden’s inauguration was notable for its normalcy, and the sense of relief that permeated the capital as an era of constant turmoil and falsehood ended. Yet he takes office amid so many
JASON ANDREW FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
National Guard troops during the inauguration Wednesday. bumps and waved to masked members of Congress from several feet away, a literal separation of powers mandated by the pandemic. The rampage on Jan. 6 had brought on uniformed troops clustered in all directions across a Capitol complex otherwise abandoned by civilians. Still, the inauguration felt like a friendly gathering, a small step toward President Biden’s elusive promise of national unity. “This is a great nation. We are good people,” Mr. Biden said, speaking in simple goals, sounding almost plaintive at times in his Continued on Page A13
ANNA MONEYMAKER FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
President Donald J. Trump preparing to leave Washington. interlocking national traumas that it is still unclear whether he can persuade enough of the nation to walk together into a new era. To do so, he needs to lead the country past the partisan divisions that made maskwearing a political act, and to win acceptance from tens of millions of Americans who believed a lie that the presidency had been stolen. Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. is hardly the first president to take office in a moment of national desperation and division. Lincoln, whose inauguration amid fear of violence hung over this Continued on Page A18
Torn by Crisis and Strife; Historic Leap for Harris By PETER BAKER
WASHINGTON — Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. was sworn in on Wednesday as the 46th president of the United States, assuming leadership of a country ravaged by disease, dislocation and division with a call to “end this uncivil war” after four tumultuous years that tore at the fabric of American society. Mr. Biden sought to immediately turn the corner on Donald J. Trump’s polarizing presidency, inviting Republicans to join him in confronting the nation’s dire economic, social and health crises even as he began dismantling his predecessor’s legacy with orders to halt construction of his border wall, lift his travel ban and rejoin the Paris climate agreement. The ritualistic transfer of power ended weeks of suspense as the vanquished president waged a relentless bid to hang on, only to be rebuffed at every level of government, clearing the way for Mr. Biden to claim his office. With his hand on a five-inch-thick Bible that has been in his family for 128 years, Mr. Biden recited the 35word oath administered by Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. at 11:49 a.m., 11 minutes before the constitutionally prescribed noon hour. Vice President Kamala Devi Harris was sworn in a few minutes earlier by Justice Sonia Sotomayor using a Bible that once belonged to Thurgood Marshall, the civil rights icon and Supreme Court justice. Ms. Harris thus became the highest-ranking woman in the history of the United States and the first Black American and first person of South Asian descent to hold the nation’s second highest office. The drama of the moment was underscored by the sight of Mr. Biden taking the oath on the same West Front of the Capitol seized just two weeks ago by a marauding mob trying to block final ratifi-
cation of Mr. Trump’s election defeat. Without ever naming Mr. Trump, who left the White House early in the morning for Florida but still faces a Senate trial for provoking his supporters, Mr. Biden said that the United States’ democratic experiment itself had come under assault by extremism and lies but ultimately endured. “Through a crucible for the ages, America has been tested anew and America has risen to the challenge,” the president said in a 21-minute Inaugural Address that blended soaring themes with
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Barack Obama greeting Vice President Kamala Harris. folksy touches. “The will of the people has been heard, and the will of the people has been heeded,” he added. “We’ve learned again that democracy is precious. Democracy is fragile. And at this hour, my friends, democracy has prevailed.” Already abbreviated because of Mr. Trump’s refusal to concede, the transition that ended Wednesday was like none before, not just from one party to another but from one reality to another. A president who came to Washington to blow up the system was replaced by one who is a lifelong Continued on Page A12
THE FIRST DAY
THE PARDONS
THE TIEBREAKER
THE POET
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Dismantling Trump’s Legacy
Disdain for Accountability
A Powerful Voice
A Young Wordsmith Connects
Gail Collins
With his pen, President Biden acted to raze and rebuild his predecessor’s environmental, immigration, pandemic and other policies. PAGE A20
President Donald J. Trump’s clemency actions showed animosity for a justice system seeking to punish corruption and betrayals of public trust. PAGE A27
Vice President Kamala Harris could well be making frequent trips to the Capitol, with the Senate evenly split between the two parties. PAGE A24
Amanda Gorman, 22, tried to make her inaugural poem, “The Hill We Climb,” hopeful, realistic and unifying. Early reviews were glowing. PAGE A22
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Biden Calls for Unity ‘We must end this uncivil war that pits red against blue’
ALYSSA SCHUKAR FOR THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
BY CATHERINE LUCEY AND KEN THOMAS
President Biden, with first lady Jill Biden at his side, is sworn in as the nation’s 46th leader at the Capitol on Wednesday by Chief Justice John Roberts.
Executive Orders Lay Out Broad Agenda BY ALEX LEARY WASHINGTON—President Biden on his first day in office took a range of executive actions, including implementing a national mask mandate on federal property, revoking a permit for the Keystone XL oil pipeline and reversing a travel ban from several largely Muslim and African countries. Coming after Mr. Biden was
inaugurated as the 46th president in a midday ceremony, the actions are intended to signal a more aggressive approach to the coronavirus pandemic and end some of former President Donald Trump’s key policies while setting the agenda for the next four years. Mr. Biden, a Democrat, signed executive orders from the Oval Office in the late afternoon. “I thought there’s no
time to wait. Get to work immediately,” he said, sitting at the Resolute Desk and wearing a mask. Mr. Biden signed 15 executive orders and two executive actions on his first day in office, far more than any of his modern predecessors, none of whom signed more than one. Mr. Trump signed an order on his Inauguration Day aimed at reversing the Affordable
Care Act, while Barack Obama didn’t sign any on Jan. 20, 2009. Bill Clinton signed an ethics order on his first day. All of them signed additional orders during their first week in office. Mr. Biden’s orders cover domestic and international matters, including ceasing Mr. Trump’s withdrawal from the World Health Organization and rejoining the Paris climate
accord. “These are two early steps to advance the president’s ambition to re-engage in the world,” said incoming national security adviser Jake Sullivan. Rejoining the Paris pact would be only a first step in Mr. Biden’s broad effort to elevate climate change to a crisis among his administration’s top priorities. Please turn to page A4
WASHINGTON—Joe Biden was sworn in as the 46th president of the United States on Wednesday, calling for unity as he assumed leadership of a nation battered by a once-in-acentury pandemic and the recent deadly storming of the U.S. Capitol. At a midday ceremony overshadowed by health and safety concerns, Mr. Biden was sworn in by Chief Justice John Roberts, repeating the oath of office on the west steps of the Capitol with his hand on a family Bible. The inauguration was attended by a relatively small, distanced audience, a contrast to the crowds that typically line the National Mall to celebrate a new administration. Declaring “democracy has prevailed” in the face of repeated challenges to the election results, Mr. Biden implored the public to stand together in the face of division and crisis. “We must end this uncivil war that pits red against blue,” Mr. Biden, a Democrat, said. “Or rural versus urban, conservative versus liberal. We can do this if we open our souls instead of hardening our hearts.” Former President Donald Trump became the first president to skip his successor’s inauguration in 150 years, instead leaving Washington for his Florida estate early in the morning, vowing in his final public comments as president, Please turn to page A6
THE INAUGURATION New president will lead a changing nation.....................A2 Senate confirms Haines as intelligence chief...................A7 Trump weighs his next move after White House...............A9
A Day Of Firsts For Vice President
President, Tested by Tragedy, Faces Tough Challenge Ahead
Kamala Harris is the first woman, first Black person and first person of Indian descent to become vice president. Presiding over the Senate, she also gives Democrats a tiebreaking vote in the evenly divided chamber. A3
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Over the past five decades, Joe Biden endured multiple personal tragedies and saw his poANALYSIS litical obituary written over and over again—yet always found a way to pick up the pieces and move forward. On Wednesday, he was inaugurated as the nation’s 46th president and proceeded to tell the nation it
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could do the same: pick up the pieces and move forward. Simple as that sounds, in the harsh environment of 2021 it will be as tough as nearly any previous test Mr. Biden has faced. Mr. Biden was sworn in amid extraordinary circumstances: an ongoing pandemic, the glaring absence of an outgoing president who refused to accept the legitimacy of last year’s election, the scars of a mob attack de-
signed to prevent him from taking office still visible on the Capitol just behind him, the nation’s first woman and first minority vice president at his side. Any one of those conditions would have made the occasion historic. Put them all together and you had an inaugural unlike any America has ever seen, or is likely to see again. All of which gave extra poignancy to the quesPlease turn to page A2
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