For all the designer fashions festooning the inaugural ceremonies for President Barack Obama’s second term today, none appeared quite as inscrutable as the hat donned by Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. However, it took a mere reminder of the last...
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Onlookers wait for President Barack Obama along the parade route during the inauguration on Jan. 21, 2013.
Lobbyists Have Ball at Inauguration
For some of Washington’s lawyer-lobbying firms, a presidential inauguration offers a once-in-four-years opportunity to open their doors to clients and others in Washington. Holland & Knight LLP, which paid almost $13.4 million to lobby during the first nine months of...
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President Barack Obama chews gum as he walks towards Air Force One en route to Gulfport, Miss., in this file photo.
Obama’s Chewing Stand
As marching band after band paraded by the glass-encased reviewing stand in front of the White House today, President Barack Obama could be seen inside, in the front row, chewing gum. As the sun went down on the inaugural parade,...
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Al Gore in Davis Guggenheim's documentary "An Inconvenient Truth."
Gore Warms to Obama Climate Talk
Al Gore liked what he heard today. The former vice president wrote a short entry on his blog thanking President Barack Obama for his inaugural address mention of climate change. “Obama spoke powerfully and eloquently about the critical importance of...
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House Speaker John Boehner, right, wore the president's color today at the inauguration.
Blue-Tied Republicans Bless Obama
House Speaker John Boehner, wearing a blue tie, spoke of renewing “the appeal to better angels” in the handing of the flag to President Barack Obama at the Capitol luncheon celebrating his second inauguration. “In the spirit of harmony,” he...
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The 57th inauguration of an American president.
Obama: ‘The Power to Set This Country’s Course’
President Barack Obama, rallying an aspiring post-war nation with a call for harmony at home, infused his inaugural address with soft-pedaled challenges for political adversaries and a strong reaffirmation of his party’s causes in his final term. “The American people...
Read more »Obama, Biden: Take Two
On a chilly platform before the U.S. Capitol today, Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. swore-in President Barack Obama for a second term, in a replay of the actual oath administered yesterday in the Blue Room of the White House. In...
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House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, among the coffee guests.
Cantor at White House: ‘Lovely Wives’
This is a day of new beginnings. On the morning that President Barack Obama stands to deliver the inaugural address for his second term, he has some guests in at the White House this morning: Rep. Eric Cantor of Virginia...
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Obama's tweets.
Obama Tweets from Church: ‘Let’s Go’
It’s said that the Twitter messages actually thumbed by President Barack Obama @BarackObama are signed `BO.’ The one this morning came from St. John’s, the church across Lafayette Park from the White House, where the first family went this morning...
Read more »Obama’s Task: That Elusive Sentence
Clare Boothe Luce, a former Republican member of Congress, once advised President John F. Kennedy that every great man is a sentence. Abraham Lincoln saved the Union. Franklin Roosevelt brought the nation out of the Great Depression. “History has no...
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