WASHINGTON--A White House official just confirmed for me that President Obama met the couple who crashed Tuesday's state dinner--Michaele and Tareq Salahi-- as they went through the receiving line.
The Secret Service on Friday was taking full blame for the incident in a' [...]
From the White House..
On Friday November 27, the First Lady will be presented with the Official White House Christmas Tree, which this year comes from Shepherdstown, West Virginia. The 18 ½ ft Douglas-fir will arrive on the traditional horse drawn carriage to the North [...]
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November 25, 2009
DAILY GUIDANCE AND PRESS SCHEDULE FOR
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 27, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 28, AND SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 29,
The President will spend Thursday through Sunday [...]
The Obama White House on Thursday released the Thanksgiving Day menu the First Family is enjoying with about 50 guests--friends, family and staff, according to Mrs. Obama's press office. Mrs. Obama's press office announced Wednesday that the menu would not be released then changed their plans on Thursday. [...]
WASHINGTON--President Obama and first lady Michelle Obama hosted their first state Tuesday night, including their closest friends from Chicago among the guests honoring India Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his wife Gursharon Kaur, with Chicago songsters Jennifer Hudson and Kurt Elling performing.
The glitzy dinner -- planned for [...]
Steve Spielberg, Alfre Woodard, Blair Underwood (photo by Lynn Sweet)
Gayle King (photo by Lynn Sweet)
Deepak Chopra (photo by Lynn Sweet)
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and husband Paul (photo by Lynn [...]
President Obama, Malia and Sasha at Thanksgiving turkey pardon ceremony at the North Portico of the White House. (photo by Lynn Sweet)
Courage, the pardoned Thanksgiving turkey. (photo by Lynn Sweet)
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President to Attend Copenhagen Climate Talks
Administration Announces U.S. Emission Target for Copenhagen
The White House announced today that President Obama will travel to Copenhagen on Dec. 9 to [...]
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November 24, 2009
DAILY GUIDANCE AND PRESS SCHEDULE FOR
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 2009
In the morning, the President will receive the Presidential Daily Briefing in the Oval Office. This meeting is closed [...]
Marty Nesbitt and Anita Blanchard at the Obama state dinner (photo by Lynn Sweet)
Rep. Jan Schakowsky and husband Robert Creamer at the Obama state dinner (photo by Lynn Sweet)
Chicago business executive John Rogers [...]
White House Social Secretary Desiree Rogers at the Obama State Dinner
(photo by Lynn Sweet)
WASHINGTON--First Lady Michelle Obama wore a floor-length gold and cream strapless dress with a wrap by India-born designer Naeem Khan at the state dinner Tuesday honoring India Prime Minister Manmohan [...]
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Below is a list of expected attendees at tonight's State Dinner:
The President & First Lady Michelle Obama
Dr. Manmohan Singh, Prime Minister, India & Ms. Gursharan Kaur
The Honorable (Rep) Gary Ackerman, United States [...]
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REMARKS BY THE FIRST LADY
AT INDIAN STATE DINNER PRESS PREVIEW
State Dining Room
2:00 P.M. EST
MRS. OBAMA: Thank you. Welcome, everyone. How are you all doing? It's good to see you.
Well, as Desiree mentioned, this is a very [...]
Sample table setting for Obama first state dinner. (photo by Lynn Sweet)
Guests will be at tables of ten.
Linens: Apple green
Flowers: Deep purple
hydrangea, garden roses and sweet peas in a palette of deep plum purple and fuchsia
Services and Place Settings
From the [...]
Place card at the Obama first state dinner (photo by Lynn Sweet)
Desert plate, Obama first state dinner (photo by Lynn Sweet)
Potato and eggplant salad
White House arugula with onion seed vinaigrette
2008 Sauvignon Blanc, Modus Operandi, Napa Valley, California
Red lentil [...]
Perfomances by
Kurt Elling, jazz vocalist
Jennifer Hudson, singer
Marvin Hamlisch conducting the National Symphony Orchestra
A.R. Rahman, Indian film composer
United States Marine Band
Among those present at the White House welcoming ceremony for India Prime Minister Singh:
CNN's Sanjay Gupta, actress Alfre Woodard, actor Blair Underwood, Rep. Joseph Crowley of New York, and a couple helpful photographers told your pooler they spotted Sen. Jack Reed of Rhode Island, and Sam [...]
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To: Singh, Priya
Subject: Foreign Pool Report -- India
Foreign Pool Report
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I am adding to what the main pool would have written, adding to the color: --
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Updated 10:08 a.m. eastern time
WASHINGTON--Here's the invite to the hottest ticket in town Tuesday night--President Obama and First Lady Michelle's first state dinner. Several news outlets are reporting that the entertainment will include Chicago's Jennifer Hudson and Kurt Elling. This is the most anticipated event yet produced by White' [...]
WASHINGTON--After President Obama's ninth meeting with his war council--the latest late last night--he will soon announce whether to send more troops to Afghanistan. Politico's Mike Allen is reporting that "Obama is expected to address the nation TUESDAY, DEC. 1, on his new Afghanistan policy, likely in PRIME TIME, Playbook" [...]
WASHINGTON--Plans for an elaborate outdoor arrival ceremony for Indian Prime Minister Singh on Tuesday on the South Lawn were scuttled because of poor weather. Instead, the ceremony will be in the East Room of the White House.
Due to bad weather, this morning's arrival ceremony has been moved to [...]
CNN POLL RELEASED TUESDAY MORNING
Interviews with 1,014 adult Americans, including 928 registered voters, conducted by telephone by Opinion Research Corporation on November 13-15, 2009. The margin of sampling error for results based on the total sample is plus or minus 3 percentage points and for registered voters is [...]
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November 23, 2009
DAILY GUIDANCE AND PRESS SCHEDULE FOR
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 2009
In the morning, the President and the First Lady will welcome Prime Minister Singh of India and Mrs. Kaur to the White House. The arrival ceremony will be [...]
UPDATED: Tonight, the President will meet with his national security team on Afghanistan and Pakistan in the Situation Room. This meeting is closed press. Expected attendees include:
Vice President Biden
Secretary of State Clinton
Secretary of Defense Gates
Ambassador Susan Rice, Permanent U.S. Representative to the United Nations
[...]
WASHINGTON--Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) on NBC's "Meet the Press" told host David Gregory on Sunday that the so-called public option in the health care bills pending in Congress --different versions of the plan in the House and Senate measures--does not have to be a deal killer.
The public option can [...]
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November 22, 2009
DAILY GUIDANCE AND PRESS SCHEDULE FOR
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 2009
In the morning, the President will receive the Presidential Daily Briefing and meet with senior advisors in the Oval [...]
WASHINGTON--A day after the Senate ethics committee handed him a stinging rebuke, Sen. Roland Burris (D-Ill.) on Saturday voted to advance the Democratic health care bill to the Senate floor and then departed for an official visit to Iraq.
Burris--on his first official overseas trip as senator--is traveling with Democrats [...]
By Lynn Sweet
Sun-Times Washington Bureau Chief
WASHINGTON -- A White House analysis of a federal purchase of the nearly vacant northwestern Illinois prison to house Guantanamo detainees and other federal prisoners, obtained by the Sun-Times on Saturday, concludes that in the first year 2,290 to 2,960 jobs [...]
excerpt from the pool report...
Pool Report Three
11-21-09
Dinner at Valerie Jarrett's place
After apparently making a quick change out of his golf garb, POTUS departed White House at 6 p.m. to attend dinner at senior adviser Valerie Jarrett's condo in Georgetown. Motorcade arrived [...]
Andrews AFB to White House
POTUS departed Andrews at 4:40 p.m. en route to the White House. Motorcade arrived back at 5:05 p.m. It was an uneventful ride at sunset back to the palace (beautiful big sky tonight, folks).
Your pooler has been informed that POTUS golfed [...]
WASHINGTON--Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark.) just announced from the Senate floor--in a rare Saturday session--that she will vote to allow the Democratic championed health care legislation to proceed. Democratic Senate leaders needed a supermajority, 60 votes, to avoid a filibuster and proceed to the underlying legislation. The vote on the [...]
WASHINGTON--As Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) on Saturday leads a tour of the nearly vacant Thomson Correctional Center--a top Obama White House contender to house Guantanamo detainees--the White House released its first detailed economic impact statement on the jobs and money that will be channeled to northwestern Illinois if the [...]
WASHINGTON--As the Senate debates health care on Saturday, Democrats Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois and Sen. Tom Harkin of Iowa are making a quick daytrip to the Illinois prison the Obama White House is targeting for Guantanamo detainees. The senators, flying on an Air Force jet, expect to be [...]
WASHINGTON -- Sen. Roland Burris was reprimanded Friday by the Senate Select Committee on Ethics for his "inconsistent, incomplete and misleading" testimony before Springfield lawmakers about his appointment by then-Gov. Rod Blagojevich to the seat once held by President Obama.
The Senate panel issued a "public letter of" [...]
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November 20, 2009
WEEKEND GUIDANCE AND PRESS SCHEDULE FOR
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 21, AND SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 2009
The President will spend the weekend in Washington, DC. He has no scheduled public events.
Saturday's In-Town Travel Pool
Wires: AP, Reuters, Bloomberg
Wire Photos: [...]
Below, release from six Illinois GOP House members.....
All: Today, members of the Illinois Congressional Delegation joined Congressman Peter Roskam in sending a letter to
President Barack Obama requesting a National Security Council (NSC) briefing, after one of the five Democrat Senate candidates, Alexi Giannoulias, disclosed that he received [...]
WASHINGTON-- Sen. Roland Burris (D-Ill.) was admonished today by the U.S. Senate ethics committee over his testimony in Springfield concerning how he got appointed to Barack Obama's vacant Senate seat.
But his actions following his appointment by then Gov.-Rod Blagojevich did not rise to level of pursuing ethics charges against [...]
The Dan Hynes for Illinois campaign likes this clip....posted on YouTube....of rival Gov. Quinn dozing during a health care forum with WTTW's Elizabeth Brackett.
[...]WASHINGTON--No sleeping in after returning yesterday from an eight day trip to China, South Korea and Japan, President Obama on Friday morning with First Lady Michelle went to an event at daughter Sasha's school. Here's the pool report from Newsday's Tom Brune, a former Chicago Sun-Times reporter.
Pool report...
President, [...]
WASHINGTON--After a stall, the Senate voted 59-39 Thursday to confirm U.S. District Court Judge David Hamilton--who now presides in an Indiana courtroom--to the Chicago based 7th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals.
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November 19, 2009
DAILY GUIDANCE AND PRESS SCHEDULE FOR
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2009
The President has no scheduled public events.
In-Town Travel Pool
Wires: AP, Reuters, Bloomberg
Wire [...]
Oprah Winfrey, fresh from a ratings hit with Sara Palin, will end her television show in September, 2011, ABC News is reporting.
Winfrey, one of the most influential and richest women in the world has her Harpo Production Company based in Chicago.
[...]WASHINGTON--President Obama is back in the U.S. after a swing through Japan, China and South Korea. Air Force One touched down at Andrews Air Force Base at 3:48 p.m. eastern on Thursday afternoon; by 4:01 p.m. est Obama was bounding down the stairs to the tarmac. He motorcaded from [...]
WASHINGTON--Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele, fresh from winning governorships in Virginia and New Jersey, hits Chicago on Friday for meetings in the Loop with Illinois GOP leadership to map strategy on Illinois contests for governor and Senate and House seats.
Steele will huddle with state Rep. Beth Coulson (R-Glenview), [...]
WASHINGTON--Illinois State Sen. Jeff Schoenberg (D-Evanston) briefed me Thursday on what is involved on the state end in selling Thomson Correctional Center in northwest Illinois to the federal government.
The Obama administration is considering asking Illinois Gov. Quinn to sell the nearly vacant Thomson to the federal Bureau of [...]
WASHINGTON--Illinois Senate President John Cullerton (D-Chicago) met with members of the Illinois congressional delegation on Thurday on a trip here that included a fund-raiser Wednesday night for the state senate political committee.
I caught up with Cullerton, his wife Pam, state Sen. Dan Kotowski (D-Park Ridge) and [...]
Below, release and detailed poll data....
AMERICAN VOTERS LIKE OBAMA, BUT NOT HIS POLICIES,
QUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY NATIONAL POLL FINDS;
SUPPORT FOR PUBLIC OPTION, BUT NOT OVERALL HEALTH PLAN
Three-quarters of American voters - 74 percent - like President Barack Obama as a person, but only 47 percent like [...]
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4:00PM In-Town Travel Pool Call Time
6:05PM THE PRESIDENT arrives at Andrews Air Force Base
Out-of-Town Travel Pool Coverage
6:25PM THE PRESIDENT departs Fort McNair en route The White House
In-Town Travel Pool Coverage (Gather Time 4:45PM - Stakeout Location)
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WASHINGTON--Here's the lighter side of President Obama, about five pounds worth.
Two male network correspondents asked Obama about his weight, after a serious discussion about other issues during one and one interviews in Bejing, China.
Obama told NBC's Chuck Todd, "My weight fluctuates about five pounds. It has for the" [...]
WASHINGTON--The price tag on the Senate Democrats health reform bill was put at $849 billion late Wednesday afternoon by the Congressional Budget Office, less than the amount in the bill the House passed but within President Obama's target.
Here's a top line comparison, according to Senate sources
Cost
Senate $849 [...]
WASHINGTON--Senate Democrats defeated Tuesday a bid by Republicans to bar money being spent for prisons--that would include a proposed Gitmo North in Illinois--to take detainees from Guantanamo Bay military prison in Cuba. This is only the first skirmish. Attorney General Eric Holder testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee [...]
Below, from CNN...
Interviews with 1,014 adult Americans, including 928 registered voters, conducted by telephone by Opinion Research Corporation on November 13-15, 2009. The margin of sampling error for results based on the total sample is plus or minus 3 percentage points and for registered voters is plus [...]
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November 17, 2009
DAILY GUIDANCE AND PRESS SCHEDULE FOR
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 2009
On Wednesday morning, the President and Premier Wen Jiabao of China will hold a bilateral meeting in the interview [...]
Below, release from Illinois GOP survey....
Survey Shows Only 32% of Illinois Voters Support Quinn/Durbin Plan to Move Gitmo to Illinois, 57% Oppose
60% of women, 58% of independents and plurality of Democrats call plan a "bad idea"
CHICAGO - Less than one-third [...]
WASHINGTON--The Obama White House faced resistance this summer over the potential of sending Guantanamo Bay military prison detainees to Standish, Mich. or Leavenworth, Ks. That's a reason they turned to the more receptive Illinois, the adopted home state of President Obama. Sen. Dick Durbin, Sen. Roland Burris and Gov.' [...]
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November 16, 2009
DAILY GUIDANCE AND PRESS SCHEDULE FOR
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 2009
On Tuesday morning, the President will participate in a welcome ceremony at the Great Hall of the People. The [...]
Why is Alexi Giannoulias Dodging the Thomson Issue?
Democrat Senate candidate "declines to take a position on the issue" on Saturday, "skips the debate" on Sunday;
IL GOP Chair: "Alexi's silence is deafening."
CHICAGO - Illinois Republican Party Chairman Pat Brady [...]
Below, from a CNN poll....
Interviews with 1,014 adult Americans, including 928 registered voters, conducted by telephone by Opinion Research Corporation on November 13-15, 2009. The margin of sampling error for results based on the total sample is plus or minus 3 percentage points and for registered [...]
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For Immediate Release November 16, 2009
REMARKS BY PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA
AT TOWN HALL MEETING WITH FUTURE CHINESE LEADERS
Museum of Science and Technology
Shanghai, China
1:18 P.M. CST
PRESIDENT OBAMA: Good afternoon. It is a great honor for me [...]
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November 15, 2009
DAILY GUIDANCE AND PRESS SCHEDULE FOR
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 2009
On Monday morning, the President will visit with United States Consulate employees and their families. This visit is closed press.
Later, the President will hold a bilateral [...]
WASHINGTON -- About a year ago, thousands jammed Grant Park in Chicago to celebrate Barack Obama's election to the White House, a communal civic defining moment. But those giddy days are long gone as Democrats in Illinois face the potential of losing the Senate seat President Obama once [...]
By Maureen O'Donnell
Sun-Times Staff Reporter
CHICAGO--In a fly-around the state Sunday, Gov. Quinn and U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) accused GOP political rivals of spreading panic over efforts to house some Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, detainees at the state's little used Thomson Correctional Center in northwestern Illinois.
Republicans, including Rep.' [...]
Updated Sunday 8:11 p.m. eastern
WASHINGTON--Illinois elected officials and candidates are dividing on party lines over relocating detainees at the Guantanamo military prison in Cuba to a maximum security lockup in northwestern Illinois. On Monday, the politics on this skyrocket.
While a federal team arrives in Thomson, Ill. for a [...]
November 15, 2009
BY LYNN SWEET Sun-Times Columnist
WASHINGTON -- Detainees at the Guantanamo Bay military prison in Cuba may be transferred to a nearly vacant maximum-security state prison in northwest Illinois, the Obama White House said Saturday.
The Thomson Correctional Center is one of several facilities a Justice and Defense [...]
WASHINGTON--As the Obama White House considers the transfer of detainees held in a Guantanamo Bay military prison to a vacant Illinois maximum security prison, a team from the Justice and Defense Departments will travel to Thomson, Ill. to inspect the facility.
The authority for this team--and the rationale behind President [...]
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November 14, 2009
DAILY GUIDANCE AND PRESS SCHEDULE FOR
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2009
On Sunday morning, the President will visit with U.S. Embassy employees and their families. The visit is closed press. Later, the President will be greeted by Prime [...]
By Lynn Sweet
Sun-Times Washingon Bureau Chief
WASHINGTON--A nearly empty state prison in northwestern Illinois has emerged as a possible site to house detainees transferred from the Guantanamo Bay military prison in Cuba, the Obama White House told the Chicago Sun-Times on Saturday.
Gov. Quinn and Obama discussed the federal [...]
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For Immediate Release November 14, 2009
PRESS BRIEFING BY
WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY ROBERT GIBBS,
DEPUTY NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOR FOR
INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC AFFAIRS MICHAEL FROMAN,
AND DEPUTY NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOR FOR
STRATEGIC COMMUNICATIONS [...]
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REMARKS BY PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA
Suntory Hall
Tokyo, Japan
10:12 A.M. JST
PRESIDENT OBAMA: Thank you so much. Arigatou. Thank you very much. (Applause.) Good morning. It is a great honor to be [...]
November 13, 2009
By ABDON M. PALLASCH
Chicago Sun-Times Political Reporter
CHICAGO--A federal appellate court today revived a Jewish family's lawsuit against a Chicago condominium association that repeatedly removed a mezuzah from the family's doorpost.
Some observant Jewish families believe they must pay respect to the small symbol upon [...]
Below, from the Justice Department....
FORMER CONGRESSMAN WILLIAM J. JEFFERSON SENTENCED
TO 13 YEARS IN PRISON FOR BRIBERY AND OTHER CHARGES
WASHINGTON - Former U.S. Congressman William J. Jefferson, 62, of New Orleans, La., was sentenced today to 13 years in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for [...]
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For Immediate Release November 13, 2009
REMARKS BY PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA
AND PRIME MINISTER YUKIO HATOYAMA OF JAPAN
IN JOINT PRESS CONFERENCE
Kantei
Tokyo, Japan
8:24 P.M. JST
PRIME MINISTER HATOYAMA: (As translated.) President Obama, I would like to welcome you to Japan. I'd' [...]
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November 12, 2009
November 10, 2009
MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE
THE DIRECTOR OF NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE
THE DIRECTOR OF THE FEDERAL [...]
CORRECTED: The President's remarks in the Diplomatic Reception Room tomorrow morning are pooled press.
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
November 11, 2009
GUIDANCE AND PRESS SCHEDULE FOR
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 12 AND FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2009
On Thursday morning, the President will make a brief statement to the press [...]
(Sun-Times photo by Al Podgorski)
By ABDON M. PALLASCH
Chicago Sun-Times Political Reporter
CHICAGO--America's health-care crisis would be worse than it is without non-profit groups providing the health care that government and the private sector do not, former President Bill Clinton said in Chicago today.
[...]
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November 10, 2009
DAILY GUIDANCE AND PRESS SCHEDULE FOR
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 2009
In the morning, the President and the First Lady will host a Veterans Day breakfast in the East Room. The Vice President and Dr. Jill Biden will also [...]
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REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT
AT MEMORIAL SERVICE AT FORT HOOD
[...]
Updated Tuesday afternoon with Kirk response
Maybe in the end the Stupak-Pitts amendment the House included in the health reform bill approved Saturday night--placing restrictions on insurance paying for abortions--won't survive in the Senate version and/or when the two chambers work out differences in the legislation.
But Illinois' [...]
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November 10, 2009
Remarks of President Barack Obama - As Prepared for Delivery
Memorial Service at Fort Hood
November 10, 2009
We come together filled with sorrow for the thirteen Americans that [...]
WASHINGTON--President Obama and First Lady Michelle are en route to Fort Hood, Texas on Tuesday morning to attend a service for the victims of last weeks shooting spree. Last May, Mrs. Obama taped a segment to run today--the 40th anniversary of "Sesame Street"--where she talks with three kids, Elmo [...]
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
November 9, 2009
DAILY GUIDANCE AND PRESS SCHEDULE FOR
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2009
In the morning, the President and the First Lady will travel to Killeen, Texas. The departure from the South [...]
below, from Davis...
Statement of Congressman Danny K. Davis Announcing his candidacy for Re-Election to Congress and withdrawing his candidacy for President of the Cook County Board Monday, November 9, 2009
For immediate Release:\
Several months ago I announced the formation of a committee to explore the [...]
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
November 8, 2009
DAILY GUIDANCE AND PRESS SCHEDULE FOR
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2009
In the morning, the President will receive the Presidential Daily Briefing, the Economic Daily Briefing, and meet with senior [...]
Sam Kass in the White House garden (top) Kass with students (below) (Photos by Lynn Sweet)
WASHINGTON -- A lot of lives have changed since Barack Obama won the presidential election one year ago last Wednesday, none so much [...]
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For Immediate Release November 8, 2009
STATEMENT BY THE PRESIDENT
ON HOUSE PASSAGE OF HEALTH INSURANCE REFORM LEGISLATION
Rose Garden
1:05 P.M. EST
THE [...]
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