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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.
[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.
January 20, 2009 was a cold day in Washington D.C., with temperatures hovering right below freezing, but an estimated 1.8 million people flooded onto the National Mall to see incoming President ...
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!
First, Obama jumped in before the "do solemnly swear" phrase, which seemed to throw the Chief Justice off his stride. Subsequently, Roberts moved the word "faithfully" back nine spots, and used "to" instead of "of." That threw the president off, and he smiled and paused to collect his thoughts, then decided to follow Roberts' lead.
A spokesperson for the Carter Center said the 100-year-old 39th president, who has been in hospice care for the past two years, will not be attending because of his health, but otherwise he would go.
will.i.am performs "Yes We Can" during the final day of the 2008 Democratic National Convention in Denver, Colorado.. Since the original posting on YouTube, the video has been re-posted a number of times by other users and as of February 23, 2008, the video had been watched a combined total of more than 22 million times among all of the postings. [5]
The convention will be streamed live on its website, from 7 p.m. to 11 p.m. ET. USA Today will also provide livestream coverage on YouTube each night of the DNC: Monday through Thursday. Tom ...