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New President Barack Obama calls for hope amid cold reality

 

Published 1/21/2009 at L.A. Times - Politics

The first African American president issues a somber call for the return of what he calls traditional American virtues of hard work, fair play, tolerance and sacrifice for the common good. > Barack Hussein Obama took his place as the 44th president of the United States under a bright January sky on Tuesday, defining the problems the nation now faces in unsparing terms and exhorting Americans to respond by taking greater responsibility for themselves, the country and the world. (link)

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