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[24] [25] At the public inaugural ceremony, Vice President Biden was sworn in using the Biden family Bible, while President Obama was sworn in using two Bibles owned by Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King Jr. President Obama became the 17th U.S. president to be re-elected for a second term of office. [19]
According to our article: Barack Obama 2009 presidential inauguration the event commences at 10:00am and the oath will be sworn and inaugural address given at Noon. Further down the article is a list of events for the day where it says that the time will be "around noon" - so you might not want to cut it too close!
The time has come to reaffirm our enduring spirit; to choose our better history; to carry forward that precious gift, that noble idea passed on from generation to generation: the God-given promise ...
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While Barack Obama may have been known as the better wordsmith and orator than George W. Bush, Bush was actually the last president to take the oath of office smoothly -- because Obama flubbed it ...
The offices for former Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama said there were no scheduling announcements for either at the moment. Former President Bill Clinton's office did not immediately ...
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Obama also represented a generational change as the first man elected president who was born in the 1960s. He inherited the 2007–2008 financial crisis, which Peter Orszag termed an "economic mess". [7] Obama was 47 years, 169 days old on the day of taking the office, which makes him the fifth youngest person to be inaugurated to date.