MR. OBAMA GOES TO WASHINGTON
by Sidney Lawrence
More than a million visitors are expected for the presidential inauguration of
Barack Obama on Jan. 20, 2009, the largest number ever, with most of them thronged onto the
National Mall -- overflowing, presumably, into the many museums that ring the greensward. Festivities begin at 10 am in front of the U.S. Capitol, starting with the
U.S. Marine Band, an invocation by the famous homophobic evangelist
Rick Warren and a song by
Aretha Franklin.
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