Barak Obamas Enauguration

• commemorates the 200th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's birth. The words come from the Gettysburg address, and express Lincoln's hope that the sacrifice of those who died to preserve the nation shall lead to "a new birth of freedom" for our nation.

A new birth of freadom

• At a time when our country faces major challenges at home and abroad, it is appropriate to revisit the words of President Lincoln, who strived to bring the nation together by appealing to 'the better angels of our nature', It is especially fitting to celebrate the words of Lincoln as we prepare to inaugurate the first African-American president of the United States."

• Barack Obama won a Grammy Award in 2006 for Best Spoken Word Recording. It was for the audio version of his book Dreams From My Father.

• He and his wife bought a house in Chicago in 2005. Back then it cost $1.65 million. The house has 4 fireplaces.

He doesn’t like ice-cream. He worked in Baskin-Robbins as a teenager. That’s where his distaste for ice-cream comes from.

He loves playing Scrabble.

He is bi-racial. He was born to a Kenyan father and a white American mother. In his book Dreams From My Father he writes that he barely noticed the racial difference between his mom and dad in his young age

He experimented with drugs. Back in his early years he tried marijuana and cocaine. According to his own words he is not proud of it and considers it a mistake as a young man

He smokes but wants to quit. After all, there is a non-smoking policy in the White House.

He was born in Honolulu, Hawaii but went to live in Indonesia with his mom when the parents divorced. There he was introduced to dog meat, snake meat, and roasted grasshopper.

In High School, Barack Obama went by the name Barry Obama.

Barack Obama's middle name is Hussein - spelled the same way as Saddam Hussein Abd al-Majid al-Tikriti, the executed, former-President of Iraq.

Barack Obama announced his run for President of the United States with less than three years experience in politics on a national level. Prior to 2004, he served in the Illinois State Senate.

Barack Obama has no policy on the Importance of Breakfast.

what I learned in this class is about what happened in world war 2.and the importance of the past presidents of america.thanx to this class I now have more knowledge. Of u.s history.

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