His grandfather, TP Gore, was a senator and his father a one-time Secretary of Aviation under President Franklin D Roosevelt.

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By Monday afternoon, Mr Obama will have taken the oath four times - as many as President Franklin D Roosevelt.

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We were exhausted by the time we arrived in picturesque Rhinebeck, a town of upscale restaurants, historic wooden buildings and the Franklin D Roosevelt Presidential Library.

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It's four, equalling the record of Franklin D Roosevelt.

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This rug features the Presidential Seal in the center and five historical quotations of meaning by Martin Luther King, Jr. and Presidents Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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