Well, with the caveat that I had streaming problems and missed some of the speech, I will go back to the question I posed earlier about the use of history to establish continuity today, since many of the usual traditions were interrupted by the pandemic and the exceptional nature of the outgoing administration and the last four years (see: Trump not attending). I think this is what we saw — lots of references to Lincoln and the Civil War, to the founders and to the other living former presidents.
