Obama, First 100 Days

Barack and Michelle Obama, Election Night, 2008

2008 Presidential Election

Obama Inauguration, Jan. 20, 2009

Obama Signs Order Closing Guantanamo Bay Prison Jan. 22

Obama Repeals Order Restricting Abortion Funding

Obama Press Conference

Gov. Bill Richardson, NM

Sen. Judd Gregg (R-NH)

Tom Daschle, Former Sen. (D-SD)

$787 Recovery & Relief Bill, Feb. 17

Obama Budget, Feb 26, Deficits

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Obama on Jay Leno, Mar. 19

Obama “Fires” GM CEO Rick Wagoner

Obama’s and British Royals

Michelle Obama and Queen Elizabeth

Obama Nuclear Proliferation Speech, Prague, April 5

Uncertainty on Missile Defense in Poland and Czech Republic

Obama in Turkey, Apr. 6-7

Presidents Barack Obama of the US &

Danilo Tuerk of Slovenia Talk in Istanbul

Obama in Iraq, Plans to Pull Combat Troops by Aug. 2010

Expanding the War in Afghanistan

Rescue of Captain Phillips Apr. 12

Bush Era “Torture” Memos Released, Apr. 16

Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA) Becomes a Democrat Apr. 28

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Iran, Negotiations

North Korea

Pollution and Global Warming

US Health Care Mess

World Military Spending

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US Defense Spending Trend, 1994-2014

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