The first suppers: A tradition of inaugural meals
January 14, 2009 | 8:19
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Barack Obama will be sworn into office Tuesday -- just weeks before the bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln's birth.
Obama's inaugural theme, "A New Birth of Freedom," has, fittingly, been drawn from his fellow Illinoisan's Gettysburg Address, and he's supposed to be sworn in using Lincoln's own Bible. The inaugural menu is based on what supposedly were some of Lincoln's favorite foods, and even the inaugural china is a replica of that used in the Lincoln White House.
Despite these connections, let's hope that Obama's inaugural meal does not duplicate Lincoln's first, which turned into a food fight.
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