TIMES ONLINE: Barack Obama sought yesterday to lower some of the soaring expectations over his inauguration as he told a Washington crowd: “There is no doubt that our road will be long, that our climb will be steep.”
Speaking on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial and in the shadow of the Washington Monument, the President-elect said the United States was once more facing a daunting test.
“In the course of our history only a handful of generations have been asked to confront challenges as serious as the ones we face right now,” he said. “Our nation is at war. Our economy is in crisis.
“I won’t pretend that meeting any one of these challenges will be easy. It will take more than a month or a year, and it will likely take many. Barack Obama Warns America: It’s Going to Be Tough and It Will Take Time >>> Tom Baldwin in Washington | Monday, January 19, 2009
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