Washington, D.C., United States, 20 January 2001.

The sky is clear, and good weather naturally portends good things happening, and today is the 43rd President of the United States. Walker. Bush's inauguration.

Daddy Bush defeated his Democratic opponents by an absolute margin and ascended to the presidency, and Chen Lin also contributed a lot in the course of Daddy's campaign, donating $30 million in cash three times before and after, and at the same time, the greatest help to Daddy was the propaganda of his Star Television.

After nearly two years of development, Star TV has become a well-known medium-sized TV station in the United States, although its overall strength is only one-fifth of any of the five major public television stations in the United States, but its reputation is no longer below it.

Variety shows, 730 American drama theater, travel and food programs have now become the three trump cards of Star TV, "The Voice of America" and "Evil Force", "Vampire Diaries", "4400", "Lost" four classic American dramas firmly locked in the hands of a large number of American audiences.

Star TV, which initially had strength and fame, spared no effort to build up publicity for Bush's father, and the effect was naturally not ordinary.

From the second half of 1999 to the year and a half of 2000, Star TV deliberately opened a news channel, and the time period was increased from 1 hour to 4 hours.

The American people unanimously branded Star TV's news channel as the Republican Party and the flag of the Bush family. This is rare in the United States, where most of the news media in the United States are liberal, and even CNN is not very clearly oriented towards the Democratic Party.

Chen Lin did not hesitate to choose the side of the Republican Party because of Bush's father's relationship, and his clear-cut choice of sides won the favor of the Republican Party. If it weren't for Chen Lin's unwillingness to have an American citizen, Father Bush would have dragged him into the Republican Party a long time ago. However, Chen Lin also made a compromise plan for Yu's mother to join the Republican Party, and his father understood and appreciated Chen Lin's national concept and agreed to introduce Yu's mother to join.

Yu's mother is now a Republican congressman and one of her father's staff advisers.

Today is the day of my father's inauguration as president, and Chen Lin and Yu Yu are by his side as sons and daughters throughout the process.

There is a cumbersome process for the inauguration of the president of the United States. The first early morning elected president to attend church services has been in place since President Roosevelt took office in 1933.

On the way to the church, Chen Lin asked Daddy Bush a question: "Dad, as far as I know, the First Amendment to the US Constitution stipulates that the government shall not give preferential treatment to any religion. Isn't it obvious that the president has to go to church to pray for the inauguration of the president, and the president has to take an oath with a Bible? ”

"Huh." George W. Bush smiled: "Jason." If you can see this question, you are starting to really understand the United States. ”

Bush Jr. paused and continued: "In fact, every year the president takes the oath according to the Bible, which will cause some public opinion turmoil, and there have been cases before that other religious groups have sued the Supreme Court for the behavior of the President of the United States, accused of discriminating against other religions, and the Supreme Justice finally acquitted the president. ”

Chen Lin shook his head, "In his famous Gettysburg Address, Lincoln proposed that the government should be owned by the people, governed by the people, and enjoyed by the people. In such a government, citizens take turns ruling and being ruled. Therefore, in the American democratic constitutionalism, the office of the citizen comes first. It is also a permanent position. By contrast, all other offices, including the presidency, are secondary. Temporary. When the president is done as president, he goes back to being his citizen. As a citizen, he had freedom of religious belief. The justice's argument was that the president was also a citizen and that he had his own freedom of belief, and that the Constitution gave priority to freedom when it contradicted other powers, such as discrimination against other religions. ”

Seeing that Chen Lin seemed to understand whether he understood or not, Bush Jr. gave a more introduction to the US policy on religion: politics does not interfere in religion. Religion also cannot interfere in politics, although in formal settings. When the president of the United States takes office, he will take an oath according to the Bible, but this does not prevent the water from his well from being injected. Because Americans are deeply aware of the Tao, religion can only focus on the needs of the human soul, and politics can only focus on the material needs of people, and only when both legs are intact can they walk normally, just like a person, there is an unbreakable truth: if the human soul is not free, it is hell on earth.

George W. Bush gave Chen Lin a small American philosophy lesson, and soon the motorcade entered the church.

Chen Lin was very curious about these rituals and ceremonies of the Americans. It was the first time in his life that he walked into a church, and he was surprised by the baptism, the prayer, the singing, and the reading of the Bible. There was also a dedication that felt familiar to him.

The so-called dedication is to donate money to the church, and it seems that in this respect all religions in the world are the same. Chen Lin followed the others in a symbolic donation of $100.

After coming out of the church, everyone lined up on Capitol Hill. Capitol Hill, commonly known as the Capitol Building, is the seat of the Congressional office, the legislature of the U.S. federal government.

The large lawn to the east of the Capitol is where successive presidents have been inaugurated and outgoing presidents have accompanied the president-elect to take the oath of office.

Outgoing President Clinton and President-elect George W. Bush stood on the inaugural stage together, with George W. Bush's wife Laura, two young daughters, and family members such as Chen Lin and Yu Yu standing behind him.

On the lawn directly in front of the two presidents stood many reporters and guests watching the ceremony.

Chen Lin stood behind Bush's father, condescendingly looking at the celebrities from all walks of life in the United States on the lawn, and a strange feeling arose in his heart.

He wondered if there were Chinese faces like him standing behind the presidents when the previous presidents of the United States were sworn in. But he is sure that at this moment, he and his wife are standing behind the 43rd president of the United States, and they are close family members, and this scene will definitely be noticed by the domestic public.

What will the domestic media think of the two having an American president as their father? Is it praise or belittling? However, Chen Lin believes that there will still be a majority of positive comments, and it is 2001, not the era of the 70s, when it was necessary to call the United States imperialism. The minds are open, the exchanges between China and the United States are normal, and the two countries have not only no national hatred but also friendship in history.

Just as Chen Lin's thoughts were flying, the voice of Bush's father taking the oath came to his ears: "...... I solemnly swear that I will faithfully perform my duties as President of the United States and do my utmost to observe, preserve and defend the Constitution of the United States. ”

Bush Jr.'s last word just fell, "Boom, boom!" On the lawn, the military honor team set off a salute, and the salute came and put together military music, and everyone applauded warmly to congratulate George. Walker. George W. Bush officially assumed the 43rd term of the United States.

At around 11 a.m., President George W. Bush entered the White House with his family and officials.

In the White House presidential office, George W. Bush first took a group photo with the new vice president, secretary of state, secretary of defense, and other officials, and then with his family.

"Jason and Alina, you two sit next to me and Laura." George W. Bush asked Chen Lin and Yu Yu to sit next to the two heads of the family, "Jena and Barba, you two sit on the laps of your parents, let your grandfather sit in the middle, and our family will take a family photo." ”

President George W. Bush arranged for the family to sit down, with Bush Sr. sitting in the middle in the first row, Bush Jr. and his wife on either side, Chen Lin and Yu Yu on either side, and Bush Jr.'s younger brother and his family of three in the second row.

"Everyone, please smile, one, two, three—OK."

After the photo was taken, the group went to a lobby in the White House, where the President's Inauguration Committee, a coalition of the Senate and House of Representatives, hosted a luncheon.

After the luncheon, the presidential motorvoy drove along Pennsylvania Avenue in the afternoon, accompanied by honor guards of the three armed services, civil society, military bands and various floats. The president, vice president and guests watched the parade from the podium in front of the White House.

In the evening, there is also a presidential inaugural ball.

The entire inauguration ceremony was lively all day, and it was not until 10 o'clock in the evening that Chen Lin and his wife returned to their residence. (To be continued......)