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  • President-elect Obama to be sworn in on Abraham Lincoln's inauguration bible

    12/24/2008 7:49:20 AM PST · by COUNTrecount · 63 replies · 2,169+ views
    NY Daily News ^ | Dec.23,2008 | MICHAEL SAUL
    Barack Obama will take the oath of office using the same Bible that Abraham Lincoln was sworn in on at his first inauguration, marking the President-elect's latest symbolic gesture to follow in the foot steps of the nation's 16th president. Obama, who will become the first African-American president when he is sworn in Jan. 20, will be the first president to use the Lincoln Bible since its initial use in 1861. "President-elect Obama is deeply honored that the Library of Congress has made the Lincoln Bible available for use during his swearing-in," Emmett Beliveau, executive director of the presidential inaugural...