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Barack Obama is sworn in as the 44th president outside the U.S. Capitol amid pomp and ceremony, plus music from Aretha Franklin, cellist Yo-Yo Ma and violinist Itzhak Perlman. The inaugural parade along Pennsylvania Avenue follows, and commentary is interspersed throughout the day. Rev. Rick Warren gives the invocation. Rev. Joseph Lowery, a founder of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, offers a benediction.