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The Obama presidency saw a major thaw in relations with Cuba, which the United States embargoed following the Cuban Revolution and the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. Starting in the spring of 2013 secret meetings were conducted between the United States and Cuba, with the meetings taking place in the neutral locations of Canada and Vatican City. [380]
The following is a list of women who have been elected or appointed head of state or government of their respective countries since the interwar period (1918–1939). The first list includes female presidents who are heads of state and may also be heads of government, as well as female heads of government who are not concurrently head of state, such as prime ministers.
They were the first women voted for as candidates for president at the national convention of a major American political party. [9] Former Wyoming Governor Nellie Tayloe Ross was a candidate for vice president at the 1928 Democratic National Convention. Her name was mentioned as a potential candidate as early as 1927, and the possibility of her ...
Former President Barack Obama thinks that if the world were run by women, there would be "significant" global improvement. Obama says women are 'indisputably' better leaders than men Skip to main ...
Former President Barack Obama’s Cabinet was 36% women, while former President Donald Trump’s Cabinet was 18% women. While both previous presidents employed high-powered women, for this Women ...
The following list includes women who have held permanent cabinet positions, all of whom are in the line of succession to the presidency. The table below is organized based on the beginning of their terms in office. Officeholders whose terms begin the same day are listed according to the presidential order of succession.
Obama and Raul Castro reversed over 60 years of tension between the U.S. and Cuba by restoring diplomatic ties. 4. He urged states in 2013 to raise the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour.
On December 1, 2008, President-elect Obama announced that Robert Gates would remain in his position as Secretary of Defense during his administration, [70] reportedly for at least the first year of Obama's presidency. [71] Gates is the fourteenth Cabinet member in history to serve under two Presidents of different parties.