「Obama's Inauguration Speech」
The day has come.
Barack Obama's speech was transmitted live to the world.
I watched TV and listened to his historic speech.
Millions of Americans were listening to his speech in earnest.
No booing. No heckling.
Barack Obama told them---
Our challenges may be new. The instruments with which we meet them may be new. But those values upon which our success depends - hard work and honesty, courage and fair play, tolerance and curiosity, loyalty and patriotism - these things are old. These things are true. They have been the quiet force of progress throughout our history. What is demanded then is a return to these truths. What is required of us now is a new era of responsibility - a recognition, on the part of every American, that we have duties to ourselves, our nation, and the world, duties that we do not grudgingly accept but rather seize gladly, firm in the knowledge that there is nothing so satisfying to the spirit, so defining of our character, than giving our all to a difficult task.
I saw some women brush the tears away.
I saw some men put their hands together.
Every listener looked to be decided to follow President Obama.
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