Below are the percentage gains and losses for the Dow and S&P 500 on Inauguration Day through 1897. Year S&P Dow President (Party) 2009 -5.28 -4.01 Barack Obama (D) 2005 -0.79 -0.65 George W. Bush (R) 2001 CLOSED SAT. George W. Bush (R) 1997 +0.07 +0.16 William Clinton (D) 1993 -0.40 -0.43 William Clinton (D) 1989 -0.09 -0.17 George H. W. Bush (R) 1985 CLOSED SUN. Ronald Reagan (R) 1981 -2.02 -2.10 Ronald Reagan (R) 1977 -0.85 -0.99 James Carter (D) 1973 CLOSED SAT. Richard Nixon (R) 1969 -0.33 -0.46 Richard Nixon (R) 1965 -0.03 -0.11 Lyndon Johnson (D) 1961 +0.32 +0.31 John Kennedy (D) 1957 CLOSED SUN. Dwight Eisenhower (R) 1953 +0.50 +0.36 Dwight Eisenhower (R) 1949 +0.39 +0.17 Harry Truman (D) 1945 CLOSED SAT. Franklin Roosevelt (D) 1941 -0.29 -0.23 Franklin Roosevelt (D) 1937 +1.25 +1.05 Franklin Roosevelt (D) 1933* CLOSED SAT. Franklin Roosevelt (D) 1929 -2.28 Herbert Hoover (R) 1925 -1.59 Calvin Coolidge (R) 1921 -0.16 Warren Harding (R) 1917 CLOSED SUN. Woodrow Wilson (D) 1913 -0.76 Woodrow Wilson (D) 1909 -0.96 William Taft (R) 1905 CLOSED SAT. Theodore Roosevelt (R) 1901 -0.27 William McKinley (R) 1897 -1.88 William McKinley (R) * - Last inauguration on March 4. From 1937 on, it has been Jan 20.