'Remaking America': President Obama said we must pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off and begin ...

 
BY CHRIS CASTEEL    Comment on this article Leave a comment
Published: January 21, 2009
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WASHINGTON — Hailing the nation’s "patchwork heritage,” Barack Hussein Obama, the son of a Kenyan and a Kansan, succeeded George W. Bush in the White House on Tuesday and began a new era in American government.

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Background: The president
Barack Obama, who was born in Hawaii to a Kenyan father who did little to raise his son, and a mother whose family hailed from Kansas, went to some of the nation’s finest colleges before moving to Chicago and working as a lawyer and volunteering in his community. He served in the Illinois Legislature before winning a U.S. Senate seat in 2004.

Marking a new page In U.S. history
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