bartleby.com - 1/13/2009
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First Inaugural Address Saturday, March 4, 1809 Chief Justice John Marshall administered the oath of office in the Hall of the House of Representatives (now National Statuary Hall). Subsequently the oath by Presidents-elect, with few exceptions, was taken in the House Chamber or in a place of ...
nytimes.com - 1/20/2009
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nytimes.com —
Following is the transcript of President Barack Obama
’s Inaugural Address, as transcribed by CQ Transcriptions: PRESIDENT
BARACK Thank you. Thank you. CROWD: Obama! Obama! Obama! Obama! My fellow citizens: I stand here today humbled by the task ...
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Transcript - Barack Obama’s Inaugural Address - Text
news.yahoo.com - 1/20/2009
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Barack Obama 's inaugural address on Tuesday, as
delivered. OBAMA: My fellow citizens: I stand here today
humbled by the task before us, grateful for the trust you have bestowed, mindful of the sacrifices borne by our ancestors. I thank President Bush ...
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Text of President Barack Obama's inaugural address - ...
blogs.abcnews.com - 1/20/2009
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Chief Justice John Roberts is a man who
has made very few public missteps in his life
-- but he appears to have made one when swearing in Barack Obama. Roberts slightly flubbed the oath, which then tripped up Obama....
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The Inaugural Oath: Chief Justice Slip-Up
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Tomgram: Prelude to an Inaugural
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... in a Washington still under construction, he took up similar themes. The principal author of the Declaration of Independence, the former governor of Virginia, the former secretary of state, and the former vice president professed "a sincere consciousness that the task is above my talents, and that I approach it with those anxious and awful presentiments which the greatness of the charge and the weakness of my powers so justly inspire."
Eight years later, James Madison, too, acknowledged his "deficiencies," as did James Monroe eight years after that, insisting ...
Tom Engelhardt: The Apology: How to Turn Over a New Inaugural Leaf
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... in a Washington still under construction, he took up similar themes. The principal author of the Declaration of Independence, the former governor of Virginia, the former secretary of state, and the former vice president professed "a sincere consciousness that the task is above my talents, and that I approach it with those anxious and awful presentiments which the greatness of the charge and the weakness of my powers so justly inspire."
Eight years later, James Madison, too, acknowledged his "deficiencies," as did James Monroe eight years after that, insisting ...
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