NEW ADMINISTRATION * USA - Celebration over, Obama's work begins Wednesday
Washington,DC,USA -The Associated Press/The Trucker News, by JENNIFER LOVEN -21 Jan, 2009: -- President Barack Obama is turning from the star-studded, crowd-pleasing pomp of his inauguration to the workaday task of governing a hurting nation of 304 million and meeting the soaring expectations that he and others have put on his shoulders... Twin crises of the economy and Iraq figured to take center stage Wednesday, Day One for the new administration... "Tonight, we celebrate. Tomorrow, the work begins," Obama declared Tuesday night at the Commander in Chief Ball, one of 10 official black-tie celebrations that kept him up late into the night... A meeting with Obama's economic team was planned for Wednesday to assess his approach and plot the way forward. Taking over the White House with 11 million Americans out of work and trillions of dollars in stock market savings lost, Obama said turning around the limping economy is his first and greatest priority... (AP photo)
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