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President:		Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Vice President:		Harry S. Truman
Date:		Saturday, January 20, 1945
Location:		South Portico, White House
Length of Address:		557 words

**First and last time a president was inaugurated for a fourth term. (The 22nd Amendment to the Constitution, ratified in 1951, restricts the presidency to two terms.)

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