Obama Inauguration

The inauguration of Barack Hussein Obama as the 44th President of the United States occurred in front of more than 1 million spectators along the National Mall was unique in American history because Obama is the first African-American elected to the U.S. presidency (Hunt, 2009). Being sworn in on the same Bible used by Abraham Lincoln, the "pomp and circumstance" lasted more than four hours on the Capitol platform with Obama assailing Americans to choose "hope over f

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