1.   As for providing a breakdown on the individual expenses this year, the inaugural committee is keeping its counsel.

2.   John Warner, R-Va., chairman of the inaugural committee.

3.   Also Wednesday, the inaugural committee announced that it was throwing open to the public sales of thousands of tickets to balls and the inaugural parade.

4.   An inaugural committee spokesman, Dirk Vande Beek, said the contributors are getting nothing in return for their donations.

5.   And since the money is going to nonprofit groups, the inaugural committee is not required to disclose the amounts donated.

6.   And some of the trinkets are pricey, as the inaugural committee hawks them on QVC.

7.   Another expected transition appointment is that of Brian Montgomery as executive director of the inaugural committee.

8.   As long as the inaugural committee is kept nonpolitical, and Brown is not in control of it, no public reports of contributions or expenditures are required.

9.   But Bush has made public all the donations to his inaugural committee.

10.   But Gabrielle Reynolds, one of the inaugural committee chairpersons, knew he was the one for the job.