![]() President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden are on the Blue Room balcony above the White House South Lawn watching the fireworks. Tom Brenner/ReutersĪ display of fireworks over Washington, DC, closed out today's Inauguration Day events. President Joe Biden, first lady Jill Biden, and their family watch fireworks from the White House after his inauguration as the 46th President of the United States on January 20. "Whenever I perform - and I definitely did it this time - and I close my eyes and I say I'm the daughter of Black writers. We're descended from freedom fighters who broke their chains and changed the world," Gorman said. She went on to share her personal mantra. ![]() It's why I included it in the inaugural poem. Also beyond that I think 'Hamilton' is such a great American cultural piece of what it means to be a better county. It was hard for me not to just copy and paste 'My Shot,' and email it the inaugural committee and be like here's my poem," Gorman said. "That's been a huge part of my speech pathology. She even used "Hamilton"'s "Aaron Burr, Sir," which is packed with Rs, for practice. To overcome her struggle, Gorman said she practiced spoken word and recited words out loud until she was able to teach herself how to pronounce the letters. "So, for me, I use my self-expression to get my voice on the page," she said. ![]() Gorman said she had a speech impediment growing up and struggled to say the letter R. ![]() Erin Schaff/Pool/Getty ImagesĪmanda Gorman, the nation's first-ever youth poet laureate, shares one thing in common with President Joe Biden: They are part of the "speech difficulty club," she told CNN's Anderson Cooper.īiden has a lifelong struggle with stuttering and has said that he "still occasionally, when I find myself really tired," catches himself stuttering. Youth Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman speaks during the inauguration of US President Joe Biden on the West Front of the US Capitol in Washington, DC, on January 20. Our people diverse and beautiful will emerge, Gorman talked about the importance of rebuilding and recovering in her poem today at the inauguration. And what I wanted to do was kind of reclaim poetry as that site in which we can re-purify, re-sanctify, not only the Capitol building that we saw violated, but the power of words and invest that in kind of the highest office of the land.” She continued: "We’ve seen over the past few years the way in which the power of words has been violated and misappropriated. "To me, words matter, and I think that’s kind of what made this inauguration that much more sentimental and special," Gorman said. Patrick Semansky/Pool/APĪmanda Gorman, the United States’ first-ever youth poet laureate who recited a poem at the inauguration of President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, said the purpose of her poetry was not only to provide hope, but to show the power of words. National youth poet laureate Amanda Gorman recites her inaugural poem during the 59th Presidential Inauguration at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, on January 20. The second executive order will restore collective bargaining rights to federal employees and initiates action to roll back former President Trump’s Schedule F executive order – which gave the Office of Management and Budget and federal agencies leeway to reclassify key roles. One directs agency action on Medicaid, Pell grants, SNAP benefits and unemployment insurance. Then on Friday, the “Economic Relief” day, there will be two executive orders. A presidential policy directive will call on agencies to “strengthen efforts to combat COVID-19 globally and strengthen global pandemic preparedness.” The executive orders include things like a review of supply chain, additional data collection and transparency, and support for additional Covid-19 treatment research and supply. There will be six executive orders and one presidential policy directive. This Thursday, the theme of the first full day of the Biden presidency will be about coronavirus.
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