President-elect Barack Obama and his team of writers, including David Axelrod, made refinements to his speech at Blair House on the eve of his historic Inaugural Address

How Barack Obama Prepared His Speech

TIME photographer Callie Shell gets a behind-the-scenes look at the speechwriting team's process

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