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Obama Promotes the Importance of Fatherhood
Jun 20, 2009President Barack Obama delivered a poignant and candid speech on the importance of fatherhood and personal responsibility before a group made up largely of young males and representatives of community mentoring organizations who attended a town hall meeting in the East Room of the White House on Friday.
The president and members of his staff spent [...]
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Black Media in the White House
Mar 30, 2009On Feb. 9, I achieved the career milestone of interviewing President Barack Obama — his first magazine Q&A. In the 15-minute phone interview, we talked about the prospects of his multi-prong economic agenda and his administration’s plans to bolster small business. That same day, I had a seat in the East Room of the White [...]
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Obama Pledges Persistence
Mar 24, 2009
Persistence. That’s the message that President Barack Obama ended with last night as he took a battery of questions from the press during his news conference on the economy.
He held his second presidential press conference after a week in which he unveiled another multi-trillion dollar of packages: the small business leading fix; another bailout [...]
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Transcript: Q&A by Obama, Brown
Mar 3, 2009President Barack Obama: Hello, everybody. Good to see you. Where are the Brits? They’re over there.
Prime Minister Gordon Brown: In fact, they’re everywhere. (Laughter.)
President Obama: Are they? They’re spread out?
All right, my understanding is we’re going to do four questions, and we’ll just alternate. I’ll start off with Jennifer Loven of AP.
Question: Thank you, sir. [...]
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