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                Obama's Public Inaugural Unfolding in Washington

   Several hundred thousand people are gathering on the National Mall in
   Washington to witness the public inauguration of U.S. President Barack
   Obama for his second term in the White House.
   Obama attended a church service Monday morning and later headed to the
   U.S. Capitol building in a motorcade to take the oath of office.
   As many as 800,000 people, many of them waving American flags, have
   crowded the Mall to witness the event. That is a smaller number than
   Obama's first inauguration in 2009 when nearly 2 million people came to
   see the swearing-in of the nation's first black president.
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   Obama was officially sworn in Sunday in a private ceremony at the White
   House, to meet the dictates of the U.S. Constitution that the country's
   president be sworn in on January 20. But with the date falling on a
   Sunday this year, the major public inaugural activities are on Monday,
   including Mr. Obama's inaugural address from a podium on the West Front
   of the Capitol overlooking the teeming masses on the Mall.
   Obama will retake the oath Monday using two historic Bibles - one owned
   by 19th-century president Abraham Lincoln, and the other by civil
   rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., who was assassinated in 1968.
   Monday's inauguration coincides with the federal holiday marking King's
   birthday.
   After the ceremony Monday, Obama and his wife, Michelle, will dine at
   the Capitol with congressional leaders, then ride in the inaugural
   parade, returning to the White House in a motorcade.  They likely will
   get out of the car and walk part of the way, as they did four years
   ago.
   Later, the Obamas will attend two official Inaugural balls, in contrast
   to the 10 balls that were held in 2009.
   Vice President Joe Biden, who will take his own oath again Monday,
   joined the president Sunday for a traditional wreath-laying ceremony at
   the Tomb of the Unknowns at Arlington National Cemetery and attended
   church with him on Monday.
   Both leaders also took part in a National Day of Service on Saturday as
   part of several days of events related to the inauguration.
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