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		<title>Obama&#8217;s Triumphant Inaugural</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2013/01/24/obamas-triumphant-inaugural/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2013 15:43:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Klein</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week&#8217;s print column: A flaming liberal agenda? Only if you&#8217;re still living in 1961. The President&#8217;s speech was more a ratification of the progress we&#8217;ve made than a roadmap for the future.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=86152&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s Exit</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jan 2013 16:42:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Rogers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As he leaves the Inauguration ceremonies, Barack Obama says, &#8220;I want to take a look one more time. I&#8217;m not going to see this again.&#8221;<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=85889&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;One Today,&#8221; the Inaugural Poem (Transcript)</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2013/01/21/one-today/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jan 2013 21:54:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TIME Staff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Richard Blanco, 44, was chosen as the Inaugural poet for Barack Obama’s second swearing-in ceremony. Here is the full text of his poem, &#8220;One Today,&#8221; which he recited on Monday afternoon before a crowd of hundreds of thousands in Washington: One sun rose on us today, kindled over our shores, peeking over the Smokies, greeting the faces of the Great Lakes, spreading a simple truth across the Great Plains, then charging across the Rockies. One light, waking up rooftops, under each one, a story told by our silent gestures moving behind windows. My face, your face, millions of faces in morning&#8217;s mirrors, each one yawning to life, crescendoing into our day: pencil-yellow school buses, the rhythm of traffic lights, fruit stands: apples, limes and oranges arrayed like rainbows begging our praise. Silver trucks heavy with oil or paper — bricks or milk, teeming over highways alongside us, on our way to clean tables, read ledgers or save lives — to teach geometry, or ring-up groceries as my mother did for 20 years, so I could write this poem. All of us as vital as the one light we move through, the same light on blackboards with lessons for the day: equations to solve, history to question, or atoms imagined, the &#8220;I have a dream&#8221; we keep dreaming, or the impossible vocabulary of sorrow that won&#8217;t explain the empty desks of 20 children marked absent today and forever. Many prayers, but one light breathing color into stained-glass windows, life into the faces of bronze statues, warmth onto the steps of our museums and park benches as mothers watch children slide into the day. One ground. Our ground, rooting us to every stalk of corn, every head of wheat sown by sweat and hands, hands gleaning coal or planting windmills in deserts and hilltops that keep us warm, hands digging trenches, routing pipes and cables, hands as worn as my father&#8217;s cutting sugarcane so my brother and I could have books and shoes. The dust of farms and deserts, cities and plains<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=85786&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Man of His Word: Obama Likely to Deliver on His Inaugural Promises (Again)</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2013/01/21/man-of-his-word-obama-likely-to-deliver-on-his-inaugural-promises-again/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jan 2013 10:30:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Grunwald</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Unlike most inaugural addresses, President Obama’s first was kind of a bummer. The media expected him to focus on the feel-good story of his racially historic election, but instead he dwelled on national drift and economic collapse, “a sapping of confidence across our land.” And unlike most inaugural addresses, Obama’s first detailed his immediate policy plans for the troubled country:             We will act not only to create new jobs, but to lay a new foundation for growth. We will build the roads and bridges, the electric grids and digital lines that feed our commerce and bind us together. We will restore science to its rightful place and wield technology’s wonders to raise health care’s quality and lower its costs. We will harness the sun and the winds and the soil to fuel our cars and run our factories. And we will transform our schools and colleges and universities to meet the demands of a new age. My insta-response on TIME’s live-blog was: “This is the weak part of the speech. It’s a lovely laundry list, but it’s a laundry list. Save it for the State of the Union.” But as I later explained in my book about change in the Obama era, the State of the Union would’ve been too late. (LIST: Obama’s Inauguration: Who’s Who in the Ceremony) That’s because Obama and his transition team were already putting together an $800 billion stimulus bill that would keep all those promises during his first month in office. It did create jobs at a time when the U.S. was shedding 800,000 a month, triggering the biggest quarterly employment improvement in 30 years in the spring of 2009, and it did begin to lay that new foundation for growth, the Change We Can Believe In that Obama had talked about on the campaign trail. It included America’s largest infrastructure investments—not only roads and bridges but a smarter electric grid and digital broadband lines—since Eisenhower. It included unprecedented federal investments in scientific research. It poured an astonishing $27 billion into health information<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=85643&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Washington Gears Up for a Smaller, More Subdued Obama Inaugural</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2013/01/18/washington-gears-up-for-a-smaller-more-subdued-obama-inaugural/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jan 2013 04:34:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Steinmetz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Love may be lovelier the second time around, but second inaugurations rarely outdo the first. Washington, D.C., is preparing for a much smaller to-do than President Obama’s 2009 unprecedented blowout. Almost 2 million people crowded into the capital in 2009. On Friday, D.C. authorities downgraded expectations from between 600,000 and 800,000 to between 500,000 and 700,000. As the weekend celebrations revved up, downtown hotel rooms were still available for roughly $200. Managers priced some suites at a third of what visitors paid in 2009. Outrageously expensive spaces, like the $50,000 spread at the W Hotel, were left unbooked. “Obviously, the demand is softer,” says Solomon Keene, President of D.C.’s major hotel association. Compared to the days before Obama’s first inauguration—when hotel bookings were “historic”—Keene says the major D.C. lodging establishments are experiencing a “significant drop off.” Four years ago, the D.C. metro authority deputized 200 out-of-town officers to help with the crowds. “We’re seeing an unprecedented level of interest and cooperation from law enforcement agencies across the country,” officials announced in a press release about the “historic occasion.” This time, their notice relayed without fanfare that the number will be 150. Spokesman Dan Stessel says that while the authority is prepared for a repeat of the record-breaking 1.1 million rides on the city’s buses and metros, officials are anticipating as little as half. Relatively speaking, Stessel says, preparations for 2013 were much like dusting off a playbook. The official events are more subdued, too. Some 13,000 civilians and members of the military marched down Pennsylvania Ave. in 2009: on Monday, 10,000 will take part in the parade. Last time, 9,300 National Guard troops arrived to provide support during the day: this time, 6,000 have. And while Obama&#8217;s first inauguration was preceded by days of galas and high-profile concerts, Bruce Springsteen&#8217;s name is noticeably absent from the 2013 programs. Of course, the gap between 2009 and 2013 feels big because enthusiasm levels—and all the logistics and pomp and dollar bills that go with them—were off the charts when the country swore in<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=85546&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Obama’s Inauguration: Who’s Who in the Ceremony</title>
		<link>http://newsfeed.time.com/2013/01/18/obamas-inauguration-whos-who-in-the-ceremony/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jan 2013 20:24:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TIME Staff</dc:creator>
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			<media:title type="html">U.S President Obama addresses the crowd after taking the Oath of Office as the 44th President of the US during the inauguration ceremony in Washington</media:title>
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		<title>What Should Obama Say in His Second Inaugural Address?</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2013/01/17/what-should-obama-say-in-his-second-inaugural-address/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jan 2013 19:04:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Steinmetz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Obama has his work cut out for him on Monday. His inaugural address comes at the end of a long, draining campaign. People are still worried about the economy yet less willing to believe in Washington’s ability to do anything about their troubles. Memorializing this moment in American history, while using the speech to his advantage, is a tall task.  TIME asked former presidential speechwriters for Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton how the President should introduce his last term. There are tried truths about inaugural addresses that the Judson Welliver Society types can recite like the Pledge of Allegiance. Don&#8217;t be outright partisan. Do link this moment to the larger American narrative. Save the policy details for the State of the Union address that comes a few weeks later. And unless you’re Abraham Lincoln at the end of the Civil War, don’t expect a second inaugural to compete with a first. “The first term is like a baby. It’s all potential,” says Don Baer, who worked on Bill Clinton’s inaugural address in 1997. “The second term there’s been a lot of experience, probably some disappointment … It’s harder to let your rhetoric get out ahead of your ability to make things happen.” Knowingly or not, that&#8217;s something Obama did the first time around. Flying high in 2008, Obama told Americans that unity had triumphed over discord and petty grievances were a thing of the past. “People aren’t going to believe that [Washington] can be ‘fixed’” this time, says Clinton speechwriter David Dreyer: To make such a promise would seem deluded. Still, the speechwriters agree, Obama’s address has to make people feel that the future is not bleak for the country, even if it is not rosy. Republicans and Democrats may never circle a fire and cook s’mores together, Obama could argue, but they are capable of pitching a tent when it’s raining. The partisan speechwriters diverge on how to best diffuse the cloud of partisan bickering hanging over the capital. The Republicans say Obama should be modest and inclusive in<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=85353&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">U.S. President Barack Obama gives his first speech during his inauguration ceremony as the 44th President of the United States in Washington</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Katy Steinmetz</media:title>
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		<title>From Iffy to Mulligan: Words American Presidents Made Famous</title>
		<link>http://newsfeed.time.com/2013/01/16/from-iffy-to-mulligan-words-american-presidents-made-famous/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jan 2013 10:30:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Steinmetz</dc:creator>
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		<title>The $50,000 Inauguration Hotel Suite</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2013 14:46:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Dias</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Still looking for a place to stay for the inauguration? If you&#8217;re the type to drop $50,000 on the hotel suite where Jennifer Lopez threw Marc Anthony’s 41st birthday party, the Godfather 2 was filmed, and Marilyn Monroe slept off a long night of policy debates, then we&#8217;ve got the place for you—the “Extreme-Wow Suite” at Washington&#8217;s W Hotel. True, the 10th floor, five room &#8220;E-Wow&#8221; suite is not exactly in tune with the austere post-recession-and-fiscal-cliff atmosphere in DC at the moment. Nor is it a particularly democratic venue in which to mark the somber pageant that memorializes Americans&#8217; selection of one of their fellow citizens to lead them. But it does have panoramic Washington Monument, White House, Treasury Department and inauguration parade route views. And the luxury package includes a private nighttime limousine tour of the national monuments, a reserved table on the roof dining terrace, a post-inauguration en-suite brunch, and massages for two. To top it all off, the deal even comes with a $100,000 jewelry loaner from Washington’s historic Connecticut Avenue jeweler, Tiny Jewel Box, where president Matthew Rosenheim will style you in whatever manner of inaugural fare you like. That includes classy options for men, such as a Jaeger-LeCoultre Reverso watch or vintage ruby-diamond-sapphire (read: red, white, and blue) cufflinks. For all you jewelry trivia fans, the Tiny Jewel Box designed the journal and pen that Michelle Obama presented to Laura Bush at the 2009 inauguration. The hotel&#8217;s owners are laying it on thick for a reason: a $91 million renovation shut the doors on Obama&#8217;s first inauguration, so they&#8217;re looking to make up for lost time. And the hotel does hold a trove of DC history. The building housed the DC stock exchange at the turn-of-the-century. Every Thanksgiving, the Presidentially-pardoned turkeys spend two nights in the hotel before their rendezvous at the Oval Office. Even the elevator ceiling lights are patterned after the constellations above Washington on July 4, 1776. For now, no one&#8217;s biting. Turnout for this year’s inauguration is expected to be only 600,000<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=85053&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>At the Inauguration Dress Rehearsal: Pretend Parades and Faux-Bamas</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jan 2013 16:53:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Steinmetz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Inaugurations don&#8217;t just happen. They are painstakingly scripted and practiced. On Sunday, the dress rehearsal was staged in Washington, D.C., where a year&#8217;s worth of patriotic planning was put on display. Each piece of the ceremony, from Beyoncé’s rendition of the National Anthem to Joe Biden’s “So help me God,” was run through by the minute and inch. Though the festivities and turnout will be smaller than 2008&#8242;s, Washington, D.C. will still be thrown into organized chaos on Jan. 21. As an estimated 800,000 visitors flood the Mall in front of the Capitol, a military task force will transport 10,000 parade marchers—ranging from merchant marines to child circus performers—from the Pentagon to starting points in the city. The dry run took place in reverse: as the sun rose, military bands played “Yankee Doodle” for presidential stand-ins exiting the Capitol, as if the ceremony had just ended. D.C. joggers on their route across the grounds wove around blocks of airmen and seamen, who gabbed and laughed before standing at attention. After the mock First and Second couples were secured in their big black SUV, the bands started their march to the White House, imitating the 57th escort for a newly sworn-in Commander in Chief. Along the way, about 1,500 troops, each standing 15 feet apart, made up the stone-faced cordon. “I figured how many chances do you get to do this? It’s a great honor to myself, also the Marine Corps, to my family, everyone back at home,” said one volunteer sentry, Marine Corporal Christopher Granados. He had been there since 2:30 a.m. and by late morning was flanking schools of motorcycle cops, trailers of horses and officers holding signs to represent the sundry civilians and floats in the parade. &#8220;It&#8217;s an excellent representation of our country,&#8221; says Navy Master Chief Tat Huen, the senior enlisted officer working on the inauguration. Many participants were chosen to represent Obama&#8217;s story, he says, whether students from the battleground state of Ohio or a marching band from the President&#8217;s home state of Hawaii. Most of the<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=84899&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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