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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.
Barack Hussein Obama II [a] (born August 4, 1961) is an American politician who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party , he was the first African-American president in U.S. history.
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 ...
President Barack Obama's first inauguration is notable not only because he was the first Black American to become president, but also for the historical quirk that he had to be sworn in twice.
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 ...
Barack Obama's tenure as the 44th president of the United States began with his first inauguration on January 20, 2009, and ended on January 20, 2017. Obama, a Democrat from Illinois, took office following his victory over Republican nominee John McCain in the 2008 presidential election.
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 ...