Barack Obama - Whistle Stop Train TourEn route to his new job as America's 16th president, Abraham Lincoln took a whistle stop train tour from Philadelphia to Washington, D.C. The country's 44th president - Barack Obama - followed Lincoln's lead during the weekend before his inauguration on the 20th of January, 2009. As you will hear in this video clip of the whistle-stop tour, the soon-to-be-sworn-in Obama gave speeches along the way. "To the children who hear the whistle of the train and dream of a better life - that's who we're fighting for. That's who needs change," the President-elect said at one stop. "And those are the stories that we will gather with us to Washington." CreditsVideo clip, courtesy Obama-Biden Transition Project web site (change.gov). Video is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
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Biographies
History
- American Colonies
- American Revolution - Highlights
- Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
- Assassination of John F. Kennedy
- Auschwitz: Place of Horrors
- Book Burning and Censorship
Disasters
- America Attacked: 9/11
- Black Death
- Challenger Disaster
- Columbia Space Shuttle Explosion
- Deepwater Horizon: Disaster in the Gulf
- Fatal Voyage: The Titanic
Philosophy
- Bagger Vance and the Bhagavad Gita
- Bonhoeffer: Martyr of Faith
- C.S. Lewis
- Dead Sea Scrolls
- Easter Story
- Freedom of Religion