Obama goofs right off the bat

Associated Press
Tuesday, January 20, 2009

It didn’t take long for Barack Obama to make the first mistake of his presidency.

In the third sentence of his inaugural speech Tuesday, the newly sworn-in president said, “Forty-four Americans have now taken the presidential oath.”

While there have been 44 presidential administrations, there have been only 43 presidents; Grover Cleveland served two nonconsecutive terms in the late 1800s.

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