John august swanson biography of barack obama

The biography for President Obama and past presidents is courtesy of the White House Historical Association.

Barack Obama served as the 44th President of the United States.

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In the morning, in the Oval Office, the President and Vice President Joe Biden had an intelligence briefing.

In 2013 President Barack Obama presented Sandoval with the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

The primary axiom of the unilateral-powers literature is that the institutional setting and political incentives that confront presidents push them to seek.

Millions of Christians prepare for Easter in the traditional manner, giving up certain pleasures, praying and contemplating the resurrection.

His story is the American story — values from the heartland, a middle-class upbringing in a strong family, hard work and education as the means of getting ahead, and the conviction that a life so blessed should be lived in service to others.

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When Barack Obama was elected president in 2008, he became the first African American to hold the office.

The framers of the Constitution always hoped that our leadership would not be limited to Americans of wealth or family connections. Subject to the prejudices of their time—many of them owned slaves—most would not have foreseen an African American president.

Obama’s father, Barack Sr., a Kenyan economist, met his mother, Stanley Ann Dunham, when both were students in Hawaii, where Barack was born on August 4, 1961. They later divorced, and Ba