With emotions running high, a record-setting crowd bearing witness and an unprecedented number of former presidents – Carter, Bush, Clinton and Bush – looking on together on the Capitol Steps, Barack Obama placed his right hand on Abraham Lincoln's Bible on Tuesday and stirringly affirmed: "I, Barack Hussein Obama, do solemnly swear that I will execute the office President of the United States faithfully."
Even Mother Nature seemed under Obama's spell. By the start of the ceremony, the skies over Washington, D.C., were clear but for the thinnest wisps of cloud, as a blinding sun kept winter temperatures tolerable. As one Obama aide put it, "if Barack Obama can deliver 70 degrees and sunny in Chicago for Election Day in November, we never had any doubt the sun would shine on his inauguration."
In his much-anticipated inaugural address, Obama thanked his predecessor "for his service to our nation, as well as the generosity and cooperation he has shown throughout this transition," then quickly got down to the business at hand. More news visit at http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20253652,00.html
Even Mother Nature seemed under Obama's spell. By the start of the ceremony, the skies over Washington, D.C., were clear but for the thinnest wisps of cloud, as a blinding sun kept winter temperatures tolerable. As one Obama aide put it, "if Barack Obama can deliver 70 degrees and sunny in Chicago for Election Day in November, we never had any doubt the sun would shine on his inauguration."
In his much-anticipated inaugural address, Obama thanked his predecessor "for his service to our nation, as well as the generosity and cooperation he has shown throughout this transition," then quickly got down to the business at hand. More news visit at http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20253652,00.html
