BARACK OBAMA FULL INAUGURATION SPEECH and SCHEDULE

BARACK OBAMA will make US History on January 20th, 2009 when he is INAUGURATED as PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. BARACK OBAMA will be the FIRST BLACK PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. The BARACK OBAMA INAUGURATION SPEECH promises to be a momentous occasion.

Citizens of the USA and people the world over will gather to hear the BARACK OBAMA INAUGURATION SPEECH when BARACK OBAMA ADDRESSES THE NATION DURING HIS PRESIDENTIAL INAUGURATION on JANUARY 20, 2009

The following is a schedule of events for the day before the BARACK OBAMA INAUGURATION SPEECH INAUGURATION as the 44th president of the United States.

8:30 a.m. ET

-- BARACK OBAMA leaves Blair House to visit wounded troops at Walter Reed Army Medical Center.

A surprise stop, on the schedule, aides said the hospital call was private and reporters were not allowed to accompany BARACK OBAMA.

BARACK OBAMA INAUGURATION SPEECH

10:30 a.m. ET

-- National Day of Community Service event at the Sasha Bruce House: BARACK OBAMA nand Family and Vice President-elect Joe Biden and his wife, Jill, joined volunteers in a community renovation project in the Washington area to honor Martin Luther King Jr., who was assassinated 40 years ago. Monday is a federal holiday that commemorates the Jan. 15, 1929, birth of King, who advocated peaceful resistance and equality among all races.

"Dr. Martin Luther King's was a life lived in loving service to others. As we honor that legacy, it's not a day just to pause and reflect -- it's a day to act," BARACK OBAMA said in a statement.

12:40 p.m.

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-- BARACK OBAMA makes remarks at the Community Service Luncheon at Calviin Coolidge High School in Washington, D.C.

BARACK OBAMA says he is making a commitment that "we are going to make government work, and we're going to make sure that government is listening to you and focused on you and making sure that people have health care, that children can go to college and people can pay their bills and folks are able to stay in their homes."

But BARACK OBAMA adds government can't do everything and it's up to individuals to find service opportunities.

1:15 p.m. ET

BARACK OBAMA announces in a written statement more key posts at the Office of Management and Budget (OMB): Jeffrey Liebman, executive associate director; Steve Kosiak, associate director for defense and international affairs; Robert Gordon, associate director for education, income maintenance and labor; Xavier de Souza Briggs, associate director for general government programs; Preeta Bansal, OMB general counsel and senior policy adviser; and Kenneth Baer, associate director for communications and strategic planning.

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For his INAUGURATION BARACK OBAMA chose the Bible on which Abraham Lincoln had taken an oath in 1861. In general, BARACK OBAMA in many respects follows the ways of his great predecessor, the bicentenary of whose birth is to be marked in the United States throughout this year. The quotation from Lincoln's famous Gettysburg Address, "The New Birth of Freedom" has become the general theme of the present-day festivities.

After the INAUGURAL ADDRESS, BARACK OBAMA, in line with the tradition, will head to the Hall of Statues in the Capitol Building where a lunch is to be given in his honour.

A INAUGURATION PARADE from the Capitol, along the Pennsylvania Avenue, and to the White House will begin at 14:30 to last approximately three hours. The presidential limousine will lead the festive parade. Upon returning to the White House, BARACK OBAMA and Mrs. Michelle Obama are to moutn a specially erected rostrum protected with bulletprood glass, to greet the parade participants.

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At 7 p.m. the newly INAUGURATED BARACK OBAMA will leave the White House and together with the First Lady will go to INAUGURAL BALLS, of which there will be ten this year. BARACK AND MICHELLE OBAMA intend to attend -- if only for a while -- all of them and, to be sure, to waltz there. The festivities will continue deep into the night and BARACK OBAMA and his wife will return to the White House only at dawn on January 21.

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