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Barack Obama writing a response to one of the ten letters he received each day as president from the White House Office of Presidential Correspondence. The Office of Presidential Correspondence is one of the largest and oldest offices in the White House, [1] and is a component of the Office of the White House Staff Secretary.
Email usage in the Oval Office increased when George W. Bush entered office after Clinton, and it continued to increase under Barack Obama's presidency. Barack Obama was the first president to communicate with the public via email while he was campaigning. His campaign team collected 13.5 million email addresses during the 2008 election. [20]
In 2009, President Obama's Office of the Press Secretary released a memorandum on the Freedom of Information Act. [2] It stated that "the government should not keep information confidential merely because public officials might be embarrassed by disclosure, because errors and failures might be revealed, or because of speculative or abstract fears."
President Obama announces an agreement on the Iran nuclear deal, 14 July 2015. Iran and the United States have had a poor relationship since the Iranian Revolution and the Iran hostage crisis, and tensions continued during the Obama administration due to issues such as the Iranian nuclear program and Iran's alleged sponsorship of terrorism.
In May 2009, Obama continued this theme and renamed the Office of Public Liaison the Office of Public Engagement. [6] Under the Obama administration, the Office of Public Engagement had been referred to as "the front door to the White House, through which everyone can participate and inform the work of the President."
Q: Why can't Obama run again? A: The majority of U.S. presidents have only served two terms.The rule against a third term was informally instituted by President George Washington, who openly ...
The 45th president was a leading figure in the “birther” movement questioning whether the 44th president secretly was born in Kenya. The rumors led to Obama releasing the long-form version of ...
Then-President Barack Obama reacts as White House adviser John Brennan briefs him on the details of the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., on Dec. 14, 2012.