Barack Hussein Obama is now the nation's 44th president - and first black chief executive. Even before he took the oath of office, Obama assumed the country's highest office by mandate of the U.S. Constitution.
Placing his left hand on the Bible used by Abraham Lincoln for his first term in 1861, Obama took the oath of office from Chief Justice John Roberts at noon as millions packed the windswept Capitol to be an eyewitness to history.
An unlikely candidate swept to office on a message of change that captured the imaginations of Americans and the world, the 47-year-old Obama, the nation's fourth youngest president, swore to "preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States" amid the backdrop of national monuments built in part by slaves.
The frigid weather did little, however, to dampen the joy of the throngs of Americans who made the pilgrimage to see Obama break a racial barrier that many once believed impossible.
The Constitution says the clock - not the pomp, ceremony and oaths - signals the transfer of the office from the old president to the new one.
The 20th Amendment to the Constitution specifies that the terms of office of the president and vice president "shall end at noon on the 20th day of January...and the terms of their successors shall then begin."
(Source: WCBSTV / NBC News)
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