>Charles Ommanney, United Kingdom, Getty Images for Newsweek.In their last moments in the White House, President George W. Bush and Laura Bush, together with Vice President Dick Cheney and his wife Lynn, await the arrival of Barack Obama on Inauguration Day.
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Barack Obama was sworn in as the 44th president of the United States at the West Front of the Capitol in Washington, D.C. on 20 January. Obama was the first African-American in the country’s history to hold the office. | |