COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance are officially in office.     One of Vance’s former Ohio State University professors said he is not shocked that’s where Vance ended up.   Back in 2008, Professor Bradley Nelson had Vance in a U.S. Foreign Policy class. Ramaswamy plans to step away from DOGE, focus on running for Ohio governor “I'm not that surprised about JD,” Nelson said. “We had actually had conversations about him running for office at some point down the line, but actually seemed like I was a little bit more interested in him doing so than he was.”  Nelson said even back then, Vance stood out to him.  “In class, he was a good student,” Nelson said. “He was confident.”  Nelson removed a blog post that Vance wrote in 2012 at Vance’s request in 2016.  Nelson said Vance messaged him on Facebook about removing it.  “He had written something about the Republican Party and kind of the state of play and kind of responding to how the Republicans can respond to Obama winning reelection in 2012,” Nelson said. “What he wrote a little basically kind of ruffled feathers and so he asked me to remove it and I said, ‘Fine.’ I mean, that the post actually wasn't a highly read post. People didn't know who he was.”  JD Vance, first vice president from Ohio in nearly 100 years, inaugurated “To have an Ohioan in one of those highest offices, you get a sense that Ohio has a stake in the biggest sort of questions in the land, and that can only help Ohio in the long run,” professor of history and chairperson of National Security Studies at Ohio State University Christopher McKnight Nichols said.  Ohio lawmakers said they are excited for the path ahead with Trump and Vance in office. Rep. Gary Click (R-Vickery) and Rep. Adam Bird (R-New Richmond) both travelled to Washington D.C. to celebrate the inauguration.  “JD Vance understands the Midwest. He understands Ohio. He understands what takes place in the rural communities, in the rural parts of the world,” Click said. “He also knows what it's like to not be born with a silver spoon in his mouth.”  “Boy, it is crazy here in Washington, DC. Natalie, I'm so thankful to be here and witness that,” Bird said. “I’m glad to be a part of it, celebrating it with so many hundreds of Ohioans that have that have made the trek to Washington, DC.”  Ohio’s infant mortality crisis: New law enhances support for women and infants Both Click and Bird said while there is a lot of celebrating, there is also another emotion so many in their party are feeling.  “Sure, there's excitement, but I think really relief is a bigger word because our country was in such a catastrophic course,” Bird said. “Just relief that there's going to be common sense returning to the White House. And it's just been such a destructive four years. And I know that this is hyperbolic sometimes to say, but in my lifetime, this is easily the worst presidency.”  “The dark days of doom and gloom are over, but there is some invigoration in the room and really all around the city,” Click said. “We are America first and not America second, not America last. We are now America first with Donald J. Trump and JD Vance.”  But others, like Nichols said the message from Trump’s inaugural address that “the golden age of America begins right now” is a bit misleading.  “It seems to me that the current state of the US is remarkably good of Western democracies that are similarly affluent,” Nichols said. “The U.S. has the best economy. Its inflation is actually less than all other comparable Western democracies, as the job growth has been record every quarter.”  Nichols said Trump managed to fit in a lot of policy talk during his speech. He pointed out things like renaming the Gulf of Mexico to the “Gulf of America” to his desire to change the justice system. But Nichols said that overall, Trump’s speech was not entirely uplifting. Trump’s hand wasn’t on the Bible during the oath of office: What does this mean? “Instead of the kind of unifying message that you've sometimes heard or often heard in inaugural addresses, you actually heard a bit more of a kind of dystopian message of how bad the country is now,” Nichols said. “And then this flip move to Donald Trump promising to help fix those problems and to usher in, as he put it, a golden age.”  As far as the dozens of executive orders Trump promises to sign during his first days in office, Nichols said that is not out of the ordinary. He said those will range from undoing orders of the previous administration to actions he will want Congress to ratify.  “I think Ohioans shouldn't be surprised, I think Americans in general shouldn't be surprised,” Nichols said. “Executive orders are the common thing that presidents do in the first week or so. Usually, they're pretty busy on day one.”     Nichols said, though, the number Trump gets done in his first day or two may be historic.