Hail to the Chief

The ever popular Hall of Presidents at the Magic Kingdom will re-launch July 4th with an Audio-Animatronics likeness of Barack Obama joining all of the past presidents in the Liberty Square attraction. He will have a speaking role, along with the figures of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln.

Besides adding the country's 44th chief executive, other updates include a re-programmed Abraham Lincoln who delivers the greatest speech in the history of the presidency — the Gettysburg Address — and for the first time in the attraction's history, George Washington stands and delivers a stirring speech. Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Doris Kearns Goodwin assisted in the transformation. Now the show focuses on the chief executives who have guided America through trying, turbulent times forging a bond between the presidents and "We, the People." The makeover is so significant, that the attraction has been renamed — The Hall of Presidents: A Celebration of Liberty's Leaders.

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^{Photo: Disney Imagineer John Cutry programs an Audio-Animatronics figure of President Barack Obama in preparation for the July 4th re-launch of the Hall of Presidents. © The Walt Disney Company}