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A New Day for America

The Oprah Winfrey Show  |  January 21, 2009
 
Gayle King, Jon Bon Jovi, Oprah, Doris Kearns Goodwin and Forest Whitaker

The day after President Barack Obama's historic inauguration, The Oprah Show is broadcasting from Art Smith's Washington, D.C., restaurant, Art and Soul.

Take a virtual tour of Art and Soul. Watch

Oprah, Gayle King, Jon Bon Jovi, Forest Whitaker and Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Doris Kearns Goodwin are reflecting on the excitement of this unprecedented week.

"Abraham Lincoln's inauguration, FDR's inauguration, LBJ's—there was nothing like this," Doris says. "People are going to be writing about this a hundred years from now."

Oprah says Forest captured the essence of the moment best in an e-mail he sent her at 2 a.m., just a few hours ago! "The light of a new age is here," he wrote.

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