Obama Says
source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/obama_inauguration/7843424.stm
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US President Barack Obama has issued executive orders on government ethics and transparency as part of a packed first full day in office.
The measures include curbs on lobbying and a pay freeze for senior White House staff. Federal employees will have to sign up to new ethics procedures.
The new president said he was beginning "a new era of openness" in government.
Later Mr Obama and his advisers are to discuss the economic crisis - as well as the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.
Earlier judges suspended several of the military trials of terror suspects at Guantanamo, following Mr Obama's call for all cases to be suspended, made hours after his inauguration.
Mr Obama arrived at the Oval Office at 0835 on Wednesday, the White House said.
Families are tightening their belts, and so should Washington
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The new president read the note left to him by his predecessor George W Bush in an envelope marked "To: #44, From: #43".
Mr Obama telephoned four Middle Eastern leaders - President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert of Israel, King Abdullah of Jordan and Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas.
"He used this opportunity on his first day in office to communicate his commitment to active engagement in pursuit of Arab-Israeli peace," the White House said.
The president later attended a prayer service at Washington's National Cathedral - a tradition dating to the time of George Washington.
The measures include curbs on lobbying and a pay freeze for senior White House staff. Federal employees will have to sign up to new ethics procedures.
The new president said he was beginning "a new era of openness" in government.
Later Mr Obama and his advisers are to discuss the economic crisis - as well as the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.
Earlier judges suspended several of the military trials of terror suspects at Guantanamo, following Mr Obama's call for all cases to be suspended, made hours after his inauguration.
Mr Obama arrived at the Oval Office at 0835 on Wednesday, the White House said.
Families are tightening their belts, and so should Washington
Barack Obama
Obama diary: The first 100 days
Born on Obama's inauguration day
In pictures: Obama's first full day
The new president read the note left to him by his predecessor George W Bush in an envelope marked "To: #44, From: #43".
Mr Obama telephoned four Middle Eastern leaders - President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert of Israel, King Abdullah of Jordan and Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas.
"He used this opportunity on his first day in office to communicate his commitment to active engagement in pursuit of Arab-Israeli peace," the White House said.
The president later attended a prayer service at Washington's National Cathedral - a tradition dating to the time of George Washington.
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