Obama will be sworn in with the same bible as Abraham Lincoln

As I keep saying, it’s nice to model yourself after another successful person. But I’d rather not go off on the deep end. We know how President Lincoln’s term ended.

President-elect Barack Obama will use the same Bible at his inauguration that Abraham Lincoln used for his swearing in.

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Obama will be the first president since Lincoln to use that Bible, part of the collection of the Library of Congress.

“President-elect Obama is deeply honored that the Library of Congress has made the Lincoln Bible available for use during his swearing-in,” Presidential Inaugural Committee Executive Director Emmett Beliveau said in a statement Tuesday.