Among others, they attended the ball in the armory.
According to Wikipedia, there was four and are listed below: * John Adams did not attend Jefferson's inauguration. * John Quincy Adams did not attend Jackson's inauguration. * Andrew Johnson did not attend Grant's inauguration. * Richard Nixon left Washington, DC before his resignation took effect, and did not attend Ford's inauguration.
John F Kennedy
John Kennedy is probably the answer. I can not find any documentation that Rose Kennedy attended, but she was alive and in generally good health at the time, so she must have attended with his husband, who I know was there.
Robert Frost
Kennedy's inauguration was January 20,1961.
It was Maya Angelou , nee Marguerite Ann Johnson before she was married
Robert Frost read at the inauguration of President John F. Kennedy in 1961.
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Mahalia Jackson
The 3 Presidents who had poets read at their inauguration are: John F. Kennedy ~ Bill Clinton ~ and Barack Obama.