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Barack Obama was elected as the 44th President of the United States in 2008, and the first African-American President. He won re-election in 2012. He is married to Michelle Obama, a former lawyer, and has two daughters, Sasha and Malia.

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28 Sep, 2015

Addresses United Nations

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President Obama addresses the General Assembly of the United Nations. He calls President Assad of Syria is a “tyrant” and urges the international community to work together to defeat ISIS, and that he is prepared to work with Russia and Iran to resolve the conflict.

By [Russia’s] logic we should support tyrants like Bashar al Assad…because the alternative is surely worse….When a dictator slaughters tens of thousands of his own people it’s not a matter of one nation’s internal affairs…There is no room for accommodating an apocalyptic cult like ISIL..We must recognize that there cannot be, after so much bloodshed, so much carnage, a return to the prewar status quo.

On the Iran nuclear deal:

For two years, the United States and our partners including Russia, including China…stuck together…That is the strength of the international system when it works the way it should.

'US cannot solve world’s problems alone': Obama addresses UNGA (FULL SPEECH)

23 Sep, 2015

White House welcome

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Francis is welcomed formally to the U.S. by President Obama. In an English speech he introduces himself as the son of the kind of “immigrant family” on which America was built. He also talks about family values, and climate change:

I would like all men and women of good will in this great nation to support the efforts of the international community to protect the vulnerable in our world and to stimulate integral and inclusive models of development.

Obama:

Holy Father, we are grateful for your invaluable support of our new beginning with the Cuban people, which holds out the promise of better relations between our countries, greater cooperation across our hemisphere, and a better life for the Cuban people.

The president and Pope meet for one-on-one talks in the Oval Office, with the Pope receiving a sculpture of an ascending dove made from metal taken from the Statue of Liberty and wood which once grew in the White House garden.

Full video: Pope Francis speaks at the White House

22 Sep, 2015

Arrives in U.S.

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Pope Francis arrives for his first visit to the U.S. and is greeted by President Obama, Vice President Biden and their families at Joint Base Andrews, outside Washington. On the plane from Cuba Francis dismisses suggestions that he is a socialist, saying that despite his warnings of the inequities in the global economic system, his beliefs are consistent with the established social doctrine of the Church. After a brief private meeting with Obama in a VIP suite, the pope leaves for the residence of the Vatican ambassador to the United States in a black Fiat hatchback car with the number plate SCV 1.

Pope Francis in the USA - Arrival at Washington

26 Jul, 2015

Women’s rights speech

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Obama wraps up visit to Kenya with a speech about discrimination against women.

Every country and every culture has traditions that are unique and help make that country what it is, but just because something is part of your past doesn’t make it right; it doesn’t mean it defines your future. Around the world there is a tradition of oppressing women and treating them differently and not giving them the same opportunities, and husbands beating their wives, and children not being sent to school. Those are traditions. Treating women and girls as second-class citizens. Those are bad traditions. They need to change.

Treating women as second-class citizens is a bad tradition: it holds you back. There’s no excuse for sexual assault or domestic violence, there’s no reason that young girls should suffer genital mutilation, there’s no place in a civilised society for the early or forced marriage of children. These traditions may go back centuries; they have no place in the 21st century.

Stop treating women as second class citizens,President Obama tells Kenyan community

23 May, 2015

Plays golf

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Biden spends a rare weekend in the nation’s capital and joins Obama’s regular weekend golf game at TPC Potomac at Avenel Farm, a private golf club in Potomac, Maryland. Two aides round out Obama’s foursome. Obama usually plays with aides at when he’s at the White House. His golf party often includes bigger names when he plays away from home.

22 May, 2015

‘Iranians Are Liars’

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Graham criticizes Obama for negotiating with Iran and claims that Iranians are liars in an address to Southern Republican Leadership Conference.

I ran the pool room when I was a kid and I met a lot of liars, and I know the Iranians are liars…The Iranians cheat and they lie. They are a radical regime. They want a master religion for the world; the Nazis wanted a master race.

12 Mar, 2015

Reads Mean Tweets

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Obama participates on a popular segment of Jimmy Kimmel Live, where celebrities read mean tweets about themselves.

Is there any way we could fly Obama to some golf course halfway around the world and just leave him there?

Obama replies:

Well, RWSurferGirl, I think that’s a great idea

Mean Tweets - President Obama Edition

14 Aug, 2014

Addresses Ferguson situation

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President Obama addresses the nation and asks for local police to be open and transparent about Brown’s death investigation. Obama criticizes police for detaining two journalists during protests.

Now’s the time for healing. Now’s the time for peace and calm on the streets of Ferguson.

President Obama addresses the situation in Ferguson, Missouri, and U.S. efforts in Iraq