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Obama’s Strange Last Days in Office

The pathbreaking president’s final stage isn’t his best.
President Barack Obama during a meeting at the White House in Washington, D.C. on January 4.
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Weird though it is, this presidential transition won’t go down as the most bizarre. The nation basically dissolved in between Abraham Lincoln being elected in November 1860 in March 1861: Seven states seceded from the Union before he was sworn in, and Honest Abe had to travel around Washington in disguise to avoid assassination attempts. Also, the Depression only worsened while Franklin D. Roosevelt waited to be sworn in—in March 1933—which is why the inaugural date was finally

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