Barack Obama's 2009 Inauguration Speech

President Barack Obama was a first-term senator from Illinois when he ran and became the first African-American to be elected to the president, which he referred to in his address in 2009. “This is the meaning of our liberty and our creed, why men and women and children of every race and every faith can join in celebration across this magnificent mall; and why a man whose father less than 60 years ago might not have been served at a local restaurant can now stand before you to take a most sacred oath.”