Barack Obama: the President's Inaugural Address (Transcript+Audio+VDO)

At 12:00 noon on Inauguration Day 2009 (Tuesday, January 20, 2009 -- the date and time are defined by the Twentieth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution), Barack Obama was sworn in as the 44th president of the United States and the nation's first African-American president. Read, listen and watch Barack Obama's Inaugural Address.