The Obamas get festive with Bo-flakes and a gingerbread
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First Lady Michelle Obama Previews the 2012 White House Holiday Decor
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The theme of the 2012 White House Holiday decorations is
"Joy to All".
President Obama Holds a Cabinet Meeting
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November 2012: Photo of the Day
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First Lady Michelle Obama Receives the 2012 White House
Christmas Tree
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Today, First Lady Michelle Obama greeted the official White
House Christmas Tree, which arrived via horse-drawn carriage. Daughters Sasha
and Malia and First Dog Bo also helped welcome the tree.
This year’s official tree is a 19-foot Fraser Fir that was
selected in early October and harvested this month at Peak Farms in Jefferson, North
Carolina. It will be displayed throughout the holiday
season in the Blue Room. Members of the National Christmas Tree Association
have presented the official White House Christmas Tree for display in the Blue
Room each year since 1966.
Wishing the American
People a Happy Thanksgiving
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From the Archives:
Thanksgiving with the Presidents
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Working Together to Extend the Middle Class Tax Cuts
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There's Only One
Way to Solve These Challenges - Together
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Extending Middle Class Tax Cuts to Grow the Economy
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President Obama says that it’s time for Congress to pass the
middle class tax cuts for 98 percent of all Americans. Both parties agree that
this will give 98 percent of families and 97 percent of small businesses the
certainty that will lead to growth, and so there is no reason to wait. On
Tuesday, the American people voted for compromise and action, and the President
calls on Congress to come together in that spirit to help create jobs and
strengthen our economy.
President Obama: "Let's Get to Work"
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There are 53 days left to find a solution that stops taxes from going up on 140 million American families and helps us reduce our nation's deficits in a smart and responsible way.
And that's what brought President Obama to the East Room of the White House this afternoon -- where he laid out his strategy for finding the right approach to move the country forward.
"I’m committed to solving our fiscal challenges," he said. "But I refuse to accept any approach that isn’t balanced. I am not going to ask students and seniors and middle-class families to pay down the entire deficit while people like me, making over $250,000, aren’t asked to pay a dime more in taxes. I'm not going to do that."
In the days and weeks ahead, the President plans to reach out to members of Congress, labor and business leaders, and citizens from all walks of life to gather ideas and input.
In fact, next week, he's invited leaders from both parties to come to the White House to begin discussing solutions. But he intends for those conversations to unfold with a minimal amount of drama.
"What the American people are looking for is cooperation," he said. "They're looking for consensus. They're looking for common sense. Most of all, they want action. I intend to deliver for them in my second term, and I expect to find willing partners in both parties to make that happen."
OBAMA-S NIGHT
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A SECOND TERM
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President Obama’s Success
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Obama routs Romney to win four more years in the White House
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Another Kennedy is headed back to Washington
as Massachusetts
elects RFK's grandson to Congress
Joe Kennedy III is the 32-year-old grandson of Bobby Kennedy
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A member of the Kennedy clan had been in the House, Senate
or White House from 1947 to 2011
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Joe Kennedy for Congress
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Joe Kennedy Wins Congress Race for Barney Frank's Seat
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fotosi,štiva
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Barnett "Barney" Frank (born March 31, 1940) is
the U.S. Representative for Massachusetts's
4th congressional district since January 1981.
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Peace Matters: 8 Reasons Why Obama Earned The Nobel Prize
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President Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize
There is one group of people who maintained their
equilibrium and instantly reached out to welcome Barack Obama into their midst:
the most recent Nobel Peace Prize Laureates. If we consider their comments in
light of the wider world, we might better understand the choice.
Announcement of the
2009 Nobel Peace Prize
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Announcement of the
2009 Nobel Peace Prize to Barack H. Obama, presented by Thorbjørn Jagland,
Chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, on 9 October 2009.
Time for Hope
Incumbent Presidents
have quite frequently been recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize. US Presidents Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow
Wilson were Laureates while in office, as for instance, were Presidents Mikhail
Gorbachev of the USSR and
Kim Dae-jung of South Korea.
There have also been current Prime Ministers (Yitzhak Rabin of Israel) and Chancellors (Willy Brandt of the Federal Republic
of Germany),
but never before has anyone been made a Peace Laureate so early into their term
of office. Barack Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize a little under 10
months after he took up residence in the White House. Nominations for the 2009
Nobel Peace Prize closed just 11 days after he took office.
Barack Obama is the
fourth US President to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, the last being Jimmy
Carter in 2002. In selecting him, the Norwegian Nobel Committee, which consists
of five people appointed by the Norwegian Parliament, or Storting, appear to be
endorsing Obama's appeal for greater multilateral cooperation aimed at tackling
the thorniest global problems; conflict, nuclear weapons, climate change. They
highlight his efforts to strengthen international diplomacy, and the new
climate of dialogue and negotiation that Obama is promoting. Emphasis is also
placed on renewed US
commitment to international organizations, in particular the United Nations.
The section of Alfred
Nobel's will detailing the creation of the Peace Prize states that it should be
awarded "to the person who shall have done the most or the best work for
fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies
and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses." In answer to
questions during the announcement press conference about how early in Obama's
Presidency the award was being made, Thorbjørn Jagland replied that the
Committee wanted to demonstrate its support for the approaches he is taking
towards global problems.
The Nobel Peace Prize
2009
Barack H. Obama
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The Nobel Peace Prize
for 2009
The Norwegian Nobel
Committee has decided that the Nobel Peace Prize for 2009 is to be awarded to
President Barack Obama for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen
international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples. The Committee has
attached special importance to Obama's vision of and work for a world without
nuclear weapons.
Obama has as
President created a new climate in international politics. Multilateral
diplomacy has regained a central position, with emphasis on the role that the
United Nations and other international institutions can play. Dialogue and
negotiations are preferred as instruments for resolving even the most difficult
international conflicts. The vision of a world free from nuclear arms has powerfully
stimulated disarmament and arms control negotiations. Thanks to Obama's
initiative, the USA
is now playing a more constructive role in meeting the great climatic
challenges the world is confronting. Democracy and human rights are to be
strengthened.
Only very rarely has
a person to the same extent as Obama captured the world's attention and given
its people hope for a better future. His diplomacy is founded in the concept
that those who are to lead the world must do so on the basis of values and attitudes
that are shared by the majority of the world's population.
For 108 years, the
Norwegian Nobel Committee has sought to stimulate precisely that international
policy and those attitudes for which Obama is now the world's leading
spokesman. The Committee endorses Obama's appeal that "Now is the time for
all of us to take our share of responsibility for a global response to global
challenges."
Oslo, October 9, 2009
Interview about the
2009 Nobel Peace Prize
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Following the
announcement, Geir Lundestad, Secretary of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, told
senior editor Simon Frantz why President Barack Obama's creation of a new
climate in international politics closely fulfils the statues of Alfred Nobel's
will.
The Nobel Peace Prize
to H E Barack Obama
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The new winner of the
Nobel Peace Prize walked out of his house just after 11 a.m., dressed
handsomely in a dark suit and a classic blue tie. He descended a marble
staircase into a manicured garden, flowers in full bloom, and stepped up to a
podium on a perfect autumn day. After making a joke abo...
President Obama Wins
Nobel Peace Prize
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Obama accepts Nobel
Peace Prize
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In Oslo, Obama tries to reconcile early antiwar
rhetoric with prevailing realities
Article | If any
further evidence were needed of the distance between running for president and
being president, it came Thursday in Oslo as President Obama accepted the Nobel
Peace Prize. The politician who had sought the White House as the champion of the
antiwar forces in his party spoke as the commande...
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President Obama
accepts Nobel Peace Prize
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Thursday, December
10, 2009
OBAMA: Your
Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, distinguished members of the Norwegian Nobel
Committee, citizens of America, and citizens of the world:
I receive this honor
with deep gratitude and great humility. It is an award that speaks to our
highest aspirations -- that for all the cruelty and hardship of our world, we
are not mere prisoners of fate. Our actions matter, and can bend history in the
direction of justice
Obama delivers Nobel
lecture
In his Nobel Peace
Prize acceptance speech, President Barack Obama quoted Martin Luther King Jr.
and spoke on the necessity of war. (CBS News)
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In Oslo
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In Oslo, Obama tries to reconcile early antiwar
rhetoric with prevailing realities
If any further evidence were needed of the
distance between running for president and being president, it came Thursday in
Oslo as
President Obama accepted the Nobel Peace Prize. The politician who had sought
the White House as the champion of the antiwar forces in his party spoke as the
commande.
Why the Prize Is
Premature
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