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Obama's inaugural luncheon fit for President Lincoln

Barack Obama had better like shellfish. The first course at his inaugural luncheon on Jan. 20, a seafood stew, consists of lobster, scallops and shrimp - all personal favorites, apparently, of Obama's fellow Illinois politician, Abraham Lincoln.

In fact, the 2009 inaugural luncheon has been designed to commemorate the bicentennial of the birth of Lincoln (Feb. 12, 1809), the 16th president....

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