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On July 19, 2013, President Obama gave a speech in place of the usual White House daily briefing normally given by White House Press Secretary Jay Carney. In the 17-minute speech, President Obama spoke about public reaction to the conclusion of the George Zimmerman trial, racial profiling, and the state of race relations in the United States. [46]
Favreau first met Barack Obama, then a state senator from Illinois, while working on the Kerry campaign. In 2005, Obama's communications director Robert Gibbs recommended Favreau to Obama as a speechwriter. [8] Favreau was hired as Obama's speechwriter shortly after Obama's election to the United States Senate. Obama and Favreau grew close, and ...
Official White House Photo/Pete Souza. President Barack Obama talks with Terry Szuplat, Senior Director for Speechwriting, while he waits backstage to deliver remarks on the Iran nuclear agreement ...
January 20, 2009 was a cold day in Washington D.C., with temperatures hovering right below freezing, but an estimated 1.8 million people flooded onto the National Mall to see incoming President ...
[3] [4] Among the topics that Obama covered in his speech were proposals for job creation and federal deficit reduction. [5] Newly inaugurated Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell delivered the Republican response following the speech [6] from the floor of the House of Delegates at the Virginia State Capitol in front of over 300 people. [7]
Barack Obama speech to joint session of Congress, September 2011; Barack Obama Tucson memorial speech; E. Barack Obama 2008 presidential election victory speech; F.
Barack Obama's parents met in 1960 while they were students at the University of Hawaii at Manoa.Obama's father, Barack Obama, Sr., the university's first foreign student from an African nation, [4] hailed from Oriang' Kogelo, Rachuonyo North District, in the Nyanza Province of western Kenya.
Supporters cheering as Obama delivers his speech in Grant Park. In his speech, Obama reflected on the hard times of the campaign and the "challenges that America would face ahead." TV coverage of the speech showed Jesse Jackson and Oprah Winfrey weeping in the crowd. [13] [14] Obama's speech also marked the first time a President-elect referred ...