President of the International Olympic Committee failure of the 1976 Montréal Games. Due to limited interest from potential hosts, the cities of Lake Placid, New York and Los Angeles, California were chosen to host the 1980 Winter Games and the 1984 Summer Games respectively, in the absence of any competing cities. Killanin resigned prior to the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, after the massive political boycott of those Games, but retained his position until the Games were completed. Juan Antonio Samaranch (who was later created The 1st Marquess of Samaranch) was elected President of the IOC on 16 July at the 83rd IOC Session in Moscow,
Second inauguration of Ronald Reagan had been planned for the West Front of the Capitol, inside to the Capitol Rotunda. There, as they had the day before officially, Chief Justice Warren E. Burger administered the presidential oath of office to Reagan, and former Associate Justice Potter Stewart administered the vice presidential oath to Bush. Jessye Norman sang "Simple Gifts" from Aaron Copland's "Old American Songs" at the ceremony. Second inauguration of Ronald Reagan The second inauguration of Ronald Reagan as President of the United States was held privately on Sunday, January 20, 1985 in the Grand Foyer of the White House, and publicly the following