My favorite inaugural moment: the prayer

There was much anguish before the inauguration about the decision to allow Rev. Rick Warren to offer a prayer at the beginning of the ceremony, but no one discussed the prayer at the end. Rev. Joseph Lowery, a pioneer in the civil rights movement, set just the right tone for the beginning of the Obama administration with his beautiful prayer that playfully ended with language and terminology from the 1960s. This was my favorite moment in what was an extraordinary day in the life of our nation.