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'Remaking America': President Obama said we must pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off and begin ...
BY CHRIS CASTEEL | Modified: January 21, 2009 at 9:46 am
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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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