UPDATE: Ticket requests closed forSwearing-In Ceremony
Due to the overwhelming number of requests for tickets received since November 5, 2008, the day after the election, Congressman Abercrombie's office is no longer able to accept requests for tickets to the Swearing-In Ceremony for President-elect Barack Obama. If you have already submitted a request, Congressman Abercrombie's office will be in touch with you, via the contact information you provided, to say whether you will receive tickets to the Swearing-In Ceremony. (more)

Official website for the presidential inauguration
The inauguration of President-elect Barack Obama will involve different events, such as the Swearing-In Ceremony and the 2009 Hawaii State Society Inaugural Ball. (more)

The President-elect's ties to Hawaii
President-elect Barack Obama's parents were friends and classmates with Congressman Abercrombie at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, the flagship campus of the UH system in Hawaii's First Congressional District. (more)

An Obama family wedding story
Congressman Neil Abercrombie recalls the day several years ago when he was reacquainted with then Illinois state Senator Barack Obama at the wedding of Obama’s sister at Kualoa Ranch in Hawaii.  (more)

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"The first intellectual stop
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