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Hugh in America.

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Eddie Mair | 10:15 UK time, Thursday, 22 January 2009

Hugh sent these on Monday night:

"Hugh went to Washington, but it was full. So he's now in New York, to gather opinions about the 44th President of the USA in the city that was attacked in September 2001:

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Kichelle (4 months) and her mum, Michelle: "I voted for who won".

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He won. Flashback to November 5th.

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Hope is in the air.


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Put out more flags.


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A bus in NYC.


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Stars, stripes and sleep on the Washington Metro.


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Poignant reminder in a Washington shop window. The words spoken by Martin Luther King in Memphis the night before he was assassinated in April 1968.

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Poignant reminder of the main event in the Bush era - the hole in the sky where the twin towers of the World Trade Center used to be.


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Cynical.


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The silence of snow, in New York."

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