Packing a nation's hopes, Obama rides rails to D.C.
Sunday, January 18, 2009
ABOARD LOCOMOTIVE 44 -- Tracking Abraham Lincoln's historic path to Washington, D.C., president-elect Barack Obama launched a four-day inaugural celebration Saturday from Philadelphia to the nation's capital before thousands of chilled but cheering onlookers. He promised to bring the country "a new Declaration of Independence" -- free from small thinking, prejudice and bigotry.
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