The ceremony was held on the North Portico of the White House, and the president received a bit of help of his daughters, Sasha and Malia.

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Cameron at the North Portico.

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It's the Jesse Helms Center, set up nine years ago as a shrine for the North Carolina Senator in an old white neoclassical home with a wide portico and fluted columns.

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