online.wsj.com - 1/20/2009
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Obama appealed to Americans to persevere through hard times as he kicked off a "whistle-stop" train tour from Philadelphia to Washington.
whitehouse.gov - 1/20/2009
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whitehouse.gov —
The Whistle Stop Tour Following the same route
that Abraham Lincoln rode 150 years ago, President Barack...
Obama, First Lady Michelle Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, and Dr. Jill Biden made their way to the inauguration on a whistle stop train tour ...
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The Whistle Stop Tour
truthdig.com - 1/21/2009
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truthdig.com —
Barack Obama rode to Washington, D.C., for his
presidential inauguration on a whistle-stop tour, which was compared...
to the train ride taken by Abraham Lincoln in 1861. The train holds a deeper symbolism, though, that undergirds Obama’s historic ...
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A Long Train Ride
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Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... Only later, when I picked up the Wall Street Journal at the airport, did I learn that Obama was in Philadelphia to begin a whistle stop train trip "intended to reflect the inaugural voyage of fellow Illinois lawmaker Abraham Lincoln, who rode 12 days from Springfield, Ill., on the way to his 1861 inauguration." ...
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