Revealed: Obama's first decision as President

The President-elect plans to bring his middle name out of exile and get sworn in on Jan. 20 as Barack Hussein Obama.

The "Hussein" was all but banned on the campaign trail, and those who used it were seen as trying to score an anti-Islamic point against Obama, whose father was raised as a Muslim.

Obama insisted he's not trying to make a statement.

"I think the tradition is that they use all three names, and I will follow the tradition, not trying to make a statement one way or the other. I'll do what everybody else does," Obama told Tribune newspapers.

Bill Clinton and the current President Bush used all three names. Bush's father used four, but both Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan used just the first and last. Gerald Ford used only the initial R, for Rudolph.

Obama also revealed in the interview that he plans to make good on his promise to hold a major speech in the capital of an Islamic country, using it as an "opportunity to reboot America's image."