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Barack Obama and Michelle Obama at the We Are One concert event. We Are One: The Obama Inaugural Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial was a public celebration of the then forthcoming inauguration of Barack Obama as the 44th President of the United States at the Lincoln Memorial and the National Mall in Washington, D.C., on January 18, 2009.
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.
Watch and listen to the US national anthem, The Star-Spangled Banner, performed at presidential inaugurations since 1961. Video by Elise Wicker
Obama arrived in Boston at 1:30 am EDT Sunday the 25th [12] [14] on a chartered Hawker jet, [15] [16] delayed in Illinois because of a hold up on the state budget. [5] The aircraft was provided for him because that same morning Obama made his first appearance on Meet the Press, hosted by Tim Russert. [9]
Mrs Obama's husband Barack is there, though, along with another former president, George W Bush, and his wife Laura Bush. Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, another Democrat, is not attending.
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 ...
Meet the Press airs Sundays from 9:00 a.m.–10:00 a.m. ET on the NBC-TV network, 10:30 a.m.–11:30 a.m. ET in New York and Washington. The program also re-airs at 2:00 p.m. ET Sundays and 2:00 a.m. and 4:00 a.m. ET Mondays on MSNBC on cable. [11] Meet the Press is also occasionally pre-empted by network coverage of sports events held outside ...
President-elect Donald Trump repeated numerous false claims during an interview that aired Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press” – including his old lie that the US is the world’s only ...