Affairs
Americas Briefing

View from Washington

Preface

The first words to come out of the new White House were not from Barack Obama, but a junior aide named Macon Phillips. "Change has come to whitehouse.gov," he wrote on its refurbished blog at 12:01, the first minute Obama legally inhabited the office but before he began his inaugural address.

issue 21 . volume 02 . March 2009

Credits

Writer: Ivan Carvalho



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