Washington Photo Blog: Tuesday, Dec. 23, 2008

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Lincoln Bible

A curator at the Library of Congress displays the Bible, once the property of Abraham Lincoln, that Barack Obama will use to take the oath of office on January 20. Obama will be the first president to use it since Lincoln himself swore on it on March 4, 1861.

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