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President Bush to Begin Second Term
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President Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney to take their oaths of
office on steps of US Capitol





President Bush and family at 'Blacktie and Boots' Innaugural ball
Wednesday eveningPresident Bush takes the oath of office for a second
term in a few hours.

The president and Mrs. Bush began the day with a family breakfast
before a prayer service at St. John's church across a snowy Lafayette
Park from the White House.

Unprecedented security surrounds this 55th presidential inauguration
with a maze of metal gates and barriers along the parade route and two
rows of dump trucks blocking Pennsylvania Avenue.

President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney will take their oaths of
office on the steps of the U.S. Capitol. In his inaugural address,
President Bush will say the best hope for peace in the world is
expanding freedom.

He will say that events and common sense have led Americans to the
conclusion that liberty at home increasingly depends on the success of
liberty in other countries. According to excerpts of the speech
released by the White House, the president will say that America has
need of idealism and courage because there is essential work within
the country to secure what he will call the unfinished work of
American freedom.

The president won a close election and returns to office in a nation
with deep political divisions. A number of public polls show him with
one of the lowest approval ratings for a president elected to a second
term in the past 50 years.


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