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Obama texts warn of parking, train problems (AP)

 
AP - President Barack Obama's aides sent text messages to tens of thousands of people about crowd control, public transportation and even the weather Tuesday as he took the oath of office and immediately started building another massive technology-based list of supporters. (link)

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