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WASHINGTON – Chief Justice John Roberts administered the presidential oath to Barack Obama for a second time at the White House Wednesday evening after Roberts and Obama flubbed it on Tuesday. 

To recreate the inaugural events as authentically as possible, Obama asked Massachusetts Senator Ted Kennedy to stop by and have another seizure.

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