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On July 19, 2013, President Obama gave a speech in place of the usual White House daily briefing normally given by White House Press Secretary Jay Carney. In the 17-minute speech, President Obama spoke about public reaction to the conclusion of the George Zimmerman trial, racial profiling, and the state of race relations in the United States. [46]
Former President Barack Obama speaks at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago on Aug. 21, 2024. Evan Jenkins for TIME
President Obama after giving his first presidential speech. The central theme of President Obama's inaugural address was a call to restore responsibility—both in terms of accountability in Washington and the responsibility of ordinary people to get involved. [112] [113] Obama's address did not have memorable sound bite phrases. Instead, he ...
It was Obama's seventh and final State of the Union Address and his eighth and final speech to a joint session of the United States Congress. [2] Presiding over this joint session was the House speaker, Paul Ryan, accompanied by Joe Biden, the vice president, in his capacity as the president of the Senate.
The 45th president was a leading figure in the “birther” movement questioning whether the 44th president secretly was born in Kenya. The rumors led to Obama releasing the long-form version of ...
At the 2024 Democratic National Convention, former President Barack Obama delivered a speech to voters following remarks from his wife, former first lady Michelle Obama. Barack Obama, who was ...
Barack Obama, a Democrat from Illinois, was elected president of the United States on November 4, 2008 and was inaugurated as the nation's 44th president on January 20, 2009. . He was re-elected on November 6, 2012; his second inauguration was on January 20, 2013, and his presidency ended on January 20, 2017, with the inauguration of Donald Tru
Former President Barack Obama spoke about the nationwide protests after the death of George Floyd for the first time on camera in a speech on Wednesday. Obama addressed the nation in a speech that ...