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Rehearsal resumed not long afterward, accompanied by frequent passes by a helicopter patrolling the skies over the Capitol. Law enforcement officials said there was no threat to the public and the fire was not believed to be a threat to the inauguration. The Associated Press obtained the “all concerned” message sent to all the National Guard troops coming to Washington. People involved in the rehearsal said security officials yelled “this is not a drill.”The lockdown was lifted about an hour later. __This story corrects that Andrew Johnson, not Andrew Jackson, was the last sitting president to not attend his successor’s inauguration.

John Adams and John Quincy Adams also opted not to participate in a tradition that began with George Washington. The White House Historical Association points out that John Adams was never formally invited by his successor, Thomas Jefferson, to the event and perhaps didn’t want to impose. He did not call on Adams, nor did Adams invite Jackson to the White House. Some four decades later, President-elect Ulysses S. Grant refused to ride with President Andrew Johnson from the White House to the Capitol for the ceremony. Rather, Ford was administered the oath of office in the White House East Room shortly after Nixon had tendered his resignation to avoid impeachment.

The Camera Obscura and Wold of Illusion attraction in Edinburgh is a popular stop for tourists. (CNN) - A trip to a tourist attraction in Scotland turned out to be a life-changing moment for one woman after a thermal camera detected she had breast cancer. Dr. Tracey Gillies, medical director at NHS Lothian, said her teams use digital mammography to detect breast cancer. "Thermography devices are not sensitive or specific enough to be a trusted method to detect breast cancer -- in Ms Gill's case the discovery was serendipitous." October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month -- an international campaign aimed at increasing awareness of the second most common cancer in women.

While many U.S. presidents have been threatened with impeachment, Congress has only conducted two presidential impeachment trials. How impeachment worksA sitting U.S. president can be impeached for treason, bribery or "other high crimes and misdemeanors." A two-thirds majority in the Senate is required to convict and remove a president from office which has never successfully happened. But Andrew Johnson was ...Congress has only conducted two presidential impeachment trials and both presidents were acquitted and stayed in office. In January 1999, an impeachment trial began in the Senate, but Clinton was acquitted a month later.