 More recently, Woodrow Wilson did not attend Warren G. Harding's 1921 inauguration (though he rode to the Capitol with him), nor did Richard Nixon attend Gerald Ford's 1974 inauguration (having left Washington, D.C., prior to his resignation taking effect).The way inauguration ceremony events are communicated to the public has changed over the years with each advance in technology.Improvements in mass media technologies have allowed presidents to reach substantially greater numbers of their constituents.