Tuesday, January 20, 2009
Breaking News: Barack Obama sworn in as 44th president
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 11:11:58 -0600
WASHINGTON (AP) - Barack Obama was sworn in Tuesday as the 44th U.S.
president, shattering racial barriers to become the first black leader
of a country gripped by profound economic troubles and at war in two
distant lands.
In his inaugural speech as prepared for delivery, Obama asked
Americans for a renewed commitment to service.
"What is required of us now is a new era of responsibility - a
recognition, on the part of every American, that we have duties to
ourselves, our nation, and the world, duties that we do not grudgingly
accept but rather seize gladly, firm in the knowledge that there is
nothing so satisfying to the spirit, so defining of our character,
than giving our all to a difficult task."
