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WASHINGTON -- President Bush takes the oath of office for his second term at noon EST today amid security that has turned the city into a maze of concrete barriers and steel security fences and has raised questions about the cost of the inaugural celebration. Chief Justice William Rehnquist, who is suffering from thyroid cancer, is scheduled to swear in Bush, and House Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., is scheduled to swear in Vice President Dick Cheney. The U.S. Naval Academy Glee Club, the U.S. Marine Band and mezzo-sopranos Denyce Graves and Susan Graham will perform, as will Guy Hovis, a vocalist from Tupelo, Miss., who performed on The Lawrence Welk Show. He will sing "Let the Eagles Soar," a song written by Attorney General John Ashcroft. Once the inauguration parade winds its way down Pennsylvania Avenue from the Capitol to the White House, the parties begin as the nine official inaugural balls kick off the evening.