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Inauguration Day, January 20, 2009

21 January 09
Celebrating the Inauguration across Canada
21 January -- The Embassy of the United States of America in Ottawa and U.S. Consulates around the country joined with Canadians in celebrating the inauguration of the 44th President of the United States of America, Barack Obama. [more] .

20 January 09
President Obama’s Inaugural Address
My fellow citizens: I stand here today humbled by the task before us, grateful for the trust you’ve bestowed, mindful of the sacrifices borne by our ancestors. I thank President Bush for his service to our nation, as well as the generosity and cooperation he has shown throughout this transition. [more].

20 January 09
President Barack Obama's first proclamation
A National Day of Renewal and Reconciliation
THE PRESIDENT: As I take the sacred oath of the highest office in the land, I am humbled by the responsibility placed upon my shoulders, renewed by the courage and decency of the American people, and fortified by my faith in an awesome God.. [more].

Inauguration Day Online Resources:

Inaugural Blog:
http://www.pic2009.org/blog

Inaugural Website on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/inauguration

Inaugural site on Twitter:
http://www.twitter.com/obamainaugural

Inaugural site on Flickr:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/inauguration

Inaugural History:
http://inaugural.senate.gov/history/

Inaugural One Pager:
Inaugural One Pager

The Obama Administration One Pager:
The Obama Administration One Pager

Inaugural Website Pressroom:
http://www.pic2009.org/pressroom

U.S. Senate Inaugural Page:
http://inaugural.senate.gov/

Overview of the Inauguration on Change.gov:
http://change.gov/learn/inauguration

Inauguration History:
http://inaugural.senate.gov/history/

Transition: Forming the next government:
http://uspolitics.america.gov/uspolitics/elections/index.html

RSS Feeds:

Inaugural Blog

Press Releases

Ejournals

The 2009 U.S. Presidential Inauguration. An eJournal from the Department of State, January 2009.
The citizens of the United States enthusiastically celebrated the inauguration of their 44th president in January 2009. The peaceful transfer of power always renews faith in the strength of democracy, but in 2009 the rise of an African-American to the nation’s highest office also gave reason for pride at the nation’s repudiation of the segregation and slavery in its past. President Barack Obama called it a day when Americans chose “hope over fear.”
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U.S. Presidential Transitions. An eJournal from the Department of State, January 2009.
We often read or hear about turmoil before, during, or after elections around the world. An important characteristic of democracy in the United States, however, is the regularly recurring peaceful transfer of power from one president to the next. Americans know when the next presidential election will take place – the Tuesday after the first Monday in November every four years. And power will be transferred to the newly elected (or re-elected) president on January 20 of the following year.
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