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January 20, 2009 was a cold day in Washington D.C., with temperatures hovering right below freezing, but an estimated 1.8 million people flooded onto the National Mall to see incoming President ...
President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama attended 10 official inaugural balls during the evening of January 20, 2009. [149] [150] Barack Obama wore a new tuxedo made by Hart Schaffner Marx, a Chicago-based menswear company. [143] He also wore a white bow tie, instead of the conventional black.
U.S. President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama walk down Pennsylvania Avenue enroute to the White House during the inaugural parade in Washington on Tuesday, January 20, 2009.
Former President Barack Obama waves after finishing his first inaugural address in 2009. He took office at a time of national peril: The Great Recession had devastated the economy and the US was ...
Salute to Heroes Inaugural Ball, sponsored by the American Legion to recognize recipients of the Medal of Honor. The ball was started as an inaugural event during President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s first inauguration in 1953. Obama was unable to attend this ball, making him the first president since Eisenhower to not attend.
Barack Obama and Michelle Obama at the We Are One concert event. We Are One: The Obama Inaugural Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial was a public celebration of the then forthcoming inauguration of Barack Obama as the 44th President of the United States at the Lincoln Memorial and the National Mall in Washington, D.C., on January 18, 2009.
January 20 fell on a Sunday in 2013, forcing inauguration festivities to be scheduled for the following day, but the Constitution required the president to take the oath at noon on January 20.
The inaugural address was 2,137 words long and President Obama took 18.5 minutes to deliver it between 11:53 a.m. and 12:12 p.m. [28] In a speech "heavy on broad rhetoric and light on policy specifics" as noted by the Washington Post [28] Obama's second inaugural speech was regarded as laying out a broad liberal or progressive agenda ...