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　　January 20, 2001

　　President Clinton, distinguished guests and my fellow citizens, the peaceful transfer of authority is rare

　　in history, yet common in ou President George W. Bush's Inaugural Address

　　r country. With a simple oath, we affirm old traditions and make new beginnings.

　　As I begin, I thank President Clinton for his service to our nation.

　　And I thank Vice President Gore for a contest conducted with spirit and ended with grace.

　　I am honored and humbled to stand here, where so many of America's leaders have come before me, and so many

　　will follow.

　　We have a place, all of us, in a long story--a story we continue, but whose end we will not see. It is the

　　story of a new world that became a friend and liberator of the old, a story of a slave-holding society that