Oh, What a Week!
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From the wee hours on the Mall to The Daily Beast and Morning Joe brunch, to a jubilant evening in Kenya, the inauguration was a panorama of memorable images from start to finish. A look back at the historic week.
People gather on the National Mall in the early hours for the inauguration of Barack Obama as the 44th president of the United States.
Oath of Office, Take Two
With a decent sense of humor about the whole thing, Chief Justice Roberts-who screwed up the first time-gives President Obama the proper oath of office.
Before Barack Obama takes the presidential oath of office on January 20 with his hand placed on the Bible used by Abraham Lincoln in his first inauguration and before the 200th anniversary of Lincoln's birth is celebrated on February 12,...
Sidney Blumenthal, former assistant and senior adviser to President Bill Clinton, and senior adviser to Senator Hillary Clinton, is executive producer of the Oscar winning documentary, "Taxi to the Dark Side," and author most recently of "The Strange Death of Republican America."
Why Obama Is Right to Use Abe's Bible
Isabel Wilkinson is an assistant editor at The Daily Beast.
After taking so many pages out of Lincoln's book, Obama has decided to use his Good one.
Lloyd Grove is editor at large for The Daily Beast. He is also a frequent contributor to New York magazine and was a contributing editor for Condé Nast Portfolio. He wrote a gossip column for the New York Daily News from 2003 to 2006. Prior to that, he wrote the Reliable Source column for the Washington Post, where he spent 23 years covering politics, the media, and other subjects.
Peter Beinart, senior political writer for The Daily Beast, is a professor of journalism and political science at City University of New York and a senior fellow at the New America Foundation.
Gerald Posner is The Daily Beast's Chief Investigative Reporter. He's the award-winning author of 10 investigative nonfiction bestsellers, ranging from political assassinations, to Nazi war criminals, to 9/11, to terrorism. His latest book, Miami Babylon: Crime, Wealth and Power—A Dispatch from the Beach, was published in October. He lives in Miami Beach with his wife, the author Trisha Posner.
Martin Jacques is the cofounder of the UK think tank Demos, writes a regular column for The Guardian, and is a visiting research fellow at the London School of Economics Asia Research Centre. His new book, When China Rules the World, is available now.
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