During the inaugural opening ceremonies at the Lincoln Memorial on the National Mall in Washington, , Jan. 18, 2009, Forest Whitaker speaks to the crowd about the importance of poets, writers and other artists in our society. More than 5,000 men and women in uniform are providing military ceremonial support to the presidential inauguration, a tradition dating back to George Washington's 1789 inauguration. (

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