- Barack Hussein Obama is sworn in as the 44th president of the United States of America.
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WASHINGTON - JANUARY 22: U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, during her first full day on the job, speaks as President Barack Obama (C) and former Ambassador Richard Holbrook (L) look on at the State Department's headquarters on January 22, 2009 in Washington, DC. Obama appointed two new envoys, former Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell (D-ME) to act as envoy to the Middle East and Holbrook to serve as a special representative in Pakistan and India. (Photo by Matthew Cavanaugh-Pool/Getty Images)
WASHINGTON - JANUARY 23: (L-R) Rep. James E. Clyburn (D-SC), House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD), House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH), Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Senate Majority leader Harry Reid (D-NV) (R) listen as U.S. President Barack Obama (2nd-R) speaks during a meeting with bipartisan congressional leaders at the White House on January 23, 2008 in Washington, DC. President Obama discussed the economic stimulus package which may be approved by the middle of February. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images)
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WASHINGTON - JANUARY 25: National Economic Council Director Lawrence Summers (L) speaks as he is interviewed by moderator David Gregory (R) during a taping of "Meet the Press" at the NBC studios January 25, 2009 in Washington, DC. Summers discussed various topics including the Obama Administration's plan on dealing with the economic crisis. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images for Meet the Press)
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WASHINGTON - JANUARY 30: U.S. President Barack Obama (R) smiles while flanked by U.S. Vice President Joseph Biden before signing an executive order dealing with the Middle Class Working Families during an event in the Eat Room of the White House January 30, 2009 in Washington, DC. The task force will assess the impact of the recession on the middle class and be headed by Biden. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images)
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US Middle East envoy George Mitchell waves on February 2, 2009 at the Elysee Palace in Paris prior a meeting with French President Nicolas Sarkozy. Mitchell, the new Barack Obama administration pointman for helping revive peace talks in the wake of Israel's deadly three-week assault on the Gaza strip, ended on the eve his Middle East tour aimed at reviving the Israeli-Palestinian peace process. AFP PHOTO / GERARD CERLES (Photo credit should read GERARD CERLES/AFP/Getty Images)
WASHINGTON, DC - Feb. 03: After the Senate Democratic weekly policy luncheon, President Obama's senior adviser David Axelrod talks to reporters, as former Sen. Tom Daschle has withdrawn from consideration to be secretary of Health and Human Services, and the Senate is considering an economic stimulus package. (Photo by Scott J. Ferrell/Congressional Quarterly/Getty Images)
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US President Barack Obama (L) walks with first lady Michelle (R), daughter Sasha (2nd L) and an unidentified friend walk on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington before their departure on February 7, 2009 for the Camp David presidential retreat where they will spend the first weekend for the first time. AFP PHOTO/Yuri GRIPAS (Photo credit should read YURI GRIPAS/AFP/Getty Images)
MUNICH, GERMANY - FEBRUARY 08: (L-R) U.S. Vice President Joseph Biden and Russian Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov meet for bilateral talks during the third day of the Munich conference on security policy on February 8, 2009 in Munich, Germany. The 45th Munich conference on security policy is running from February 6 to 8, 2009. (Photo by Miguel Villagran/Getty Images)
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US President Barack Obama speaks during the Lincoln Bicentennial Celebration in the Rotunda of the US Capitol in Washington, DC, February 12, 2009. The event celebrates the 200th anniversary of former US President Abraham Lincoln's birth. AFP PHOTO / Saul LOEB (Photo credit should read SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images)
Vice President Joseph Biden, 2nd from left, announces that Kareem Dale, 3rd from left, has been appointed Special Assistant to the President for Disability Policy during the Winter Special Olympics site at Boise State University Thursday, Feb. 12, 2009 in Boise, Idaho. (Sharon Farmer/sfphotoworks)
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US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (R) participates in a traditional Shinto ritual for purification during her visit to Meiji Shrine in Tokyo on February 17, 2009. Alluding to the preceding Bush administration's stress on military power, Clinton told a gathering at the US embassy in Tokyo that President Barack Obama's administration sought to balance defense, diplomacy and development. AFP PHOTO / JAPAN POOL (Photo credit should read STR/AFP/Getty Images)
President Obama speaks in Mesa, Ariz. on Feb. 18, 2009. (White House photo by Pete Souza)
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Vice President Joe Biden, right, meets with President Fatmir Sejdiu of Kosovo, 2nd from left, in the Roosevelt room in the White House Thursday, Feb. 26, 2009 in Washington. White House Photo by Sharon Farmer
President Obama at Camp Lejeune on Feb. 27, , 2009. (White House photo by Pete Souza)
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US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speaks with US special envoy to the Middle East George Mitchell prior to the start of the international donors meeting for the Gaza Strip, in the Egyptian Red Sea resort town of Sharm el-Sheikh on March 2, 2009. Clinton said that aid to rebuild the war-battered Gaza Strip cannot be separated from the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, in remarks prepared for the international aid conference in Egypt. AFP PHOTO/CRIS BOURONCLE (Photo credit should read CRIS BOURONCLE/AFP/Getty Images)
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Oval Office working meeting with Brazilian President Lula da Silva Official White House Photo by Pete Souza
WASHINGTON - MARCH 15: (AFP OUT) Moderator David Gregory (R) listens while Rep. Eric Cantor (R-VA) (L), House Republican Whip, speaks during a live taping of 'Meet the Press' at NBC studios March 15, 2009 in Washington, DC. Representative Cantor appeared on the show to speak about the Obama administration's plans for economic recovery. (Photo by Brendan Smialowski/Getty Images for Meet the Press)
President Barack Obama's handwritten NCAA bracket. (Official White House photo by Pete Souza)
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Breaking ground for the White House vegetable garden on the South Lawn Official White House Photo by Joyce N. Boghosian
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WASHINGTON - MARCH 24: U.S. President Barack Obama answers a question during a prime time news conference in the East Room of the White House March 24, 2009 in Washington, DC. The president, in the second prime-time news conference of his administration, appealed for support for his $3.6 trillion budget proposal, something he described as key to a national economic recovery. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
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Obama at Virtual Town Hall in East Room Official White House Photo by Pete Souza
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President Obama meets with, left to right, Turkish Armenian Foreign Minister Eduard Nalbandian, Swiss Foreign Minister (and mediator) Micheline Calmy-Rey, Turkish undersecretary of the foreign ministry Ertugul Apakan and Turkish Foreign Minister Ali Babacan at a reception in Istanbul, Turkey on April 6, 2009. The President met with the foreign ministers to commend them on recent progress in Armenia-Turkey normalization and urged them to complete an agreement between those two important countries. (White House photo by Pete Souza) (White House photo by Pete Souza)
US President Barack Obama (R) greets troops during a visit to Camp Victory, just outside Baghdad, on April 7, 2009. - US President Barack Obama planned to meet Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki at a US military base on Tuesday, the White House said, after bad weather forced a hasty change to his itinerary. The two leaders will discuss the planned withdrawal of US troops from Iraq, the overall security situation as well as Turkish border issues and Kurdish rebels, Iraqi state television said. AFP PHOTO / Mandel NGAN (Photo credit should read MANDEL NGAN/AFP/Getty Images)
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Children from the Bancroft school help First Lady Michelle Obama plant the White House Vegetable Garden. Official White House Photo by Samantha Appleton
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WASHINGTON - APRIL 14: (AFP OUT) U.S. President Barack Obama delivers a speech at Georgetown University April 14, 2009 in Washington, DC. During his speech on the economy, Obama cautioned that there will be "more job loss, more foreclosures and more pain" before the recession concludes. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)
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Obama Oval meeting with King of Jordan Official White House Photo by Pete Souza
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President Barack Obama meets with U.S. Special Envoy for Sudan, Scott Gration, for an update on Darfur, Thursday, April 23, 2009, in Oval Office at the White House. Official White House Photo by Pete Souza Official White House Photo by Pete Souza
WASHINGTON - APRIL 26: Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, joined by White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs, briefs the media at the White House on the government's response to swine influenza on April 26, 2009 in Washington, DC. The outbreak, centered in Mexico City, has sickened as many as 1,400 and killed as many as 81. (Photo by Brendan Hoffman/Getty Images)
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