Barack Obama: The White House

Martin Luther King Jr. Dept: Obama, whose public swearing-in ceremony is held on the King holiday on Monday at the Capitol building, took the oath of office in an intimate gathering in the elegant Blue Room of the White House, according to Montreal Gazette. Obama begins his next four years in office amid far different circumstances than he did in 2009, when his soaring messages of hope and change dared millions of Americans to dream that their country could be the better, brighter place that King himself envisioned decades earlier and wASHINGTON - U.S. President Barack Obama took the oath of office to begin his second term on Sunday, the eve of the national holiday devoted to Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., the country's most revered civil rights leader. The oath was administered by John Roberts, chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, as the president's closest family members looked on. Roberts famously flubbed the oath four years ago when he swore in the country's first African-American president, but there were no similar hitches on Sunday. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.