Fact #82772
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President of the United States, Barack Obama, in his inauguration speech, states, "Starting today, we must pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, and begin again the work of remaking America." In
another example of the extent to which popular songs are integrated and influential in society and politics, Obama is almost directly quoting the lyric of the 1936 Jerome Kern song Pick Yourself Up.
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