Obama Is Sworn In as the 44th President

Posted by Gale Petersen  January 20, 2009

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/21/us/politics/20web-inaug2.html?partner=permalin...

Barack Hussein Obama became the 44th president of the United States on Tuesday, and called on Americans to confront “our collective failure to make hard choices.” (Source: New York Times Multimedia Online Story)

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