President Barack Obama. Photo: Wikimedia Commons.

CNN – It was a seemingly wistful moment at the halfway mark of his presidency, before the celebratory parade and the evening’s galas.

Shortly after exhorting the United States to continue its “never-ending journey” to live up to the ideals of its founders, on his way off the platform at the West Front of the Capitol, President Barack Obama stopped to drink in the scene before him.

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