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The family of Barack Obama, the 44th president of the United States, is a prominent American family active in law, education, activism and politics. Obama's immediate family circle was the first family of the United States from 2009 to 2017, and are the first such family of African-American descent. [1]
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]
It was Johnson's first State of the Union Address and his second speech to a joint session of the United States Congress after the assassination of his predecessor John F. Kennedy in November 1963. Presiding over this joint session was House speaker John W. McCormack , accompanied by President pro tempore Carl Hayden , in his capacity as the ...
President Barack Obama talks with Terry Szuplat, Senior Director for Speechwriting, while he waits backstage to deliver remarks on the Iran nuclear agreement at American University in Washington ...
Presiding over this joint session was the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, accompanied by Joe Biden, the vice president in his capacity as the president of the Senate. During his speech, President Obama discussed the recently passed $787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 as well as the ...
Obama would continue to support Harris as she ran for U.S. Senate in 2016 and later Joe Biden's running mate on the 2020 presidential ticket. MORE: DNC 2024 Day 2 live updates
In his speeches as president, Obama did not make more overt references to race relations than his predecessors, [232] [233] but according to one study, he implemented stronger policy action on behalf of African-Americans than any president since the Nixon era. [234] Following Obama's election, many pondered the existence of a "postracial America".
The 2004 Democratic National Convention was famous because it included the keynote speech of Barack Obama, who would go on to be elected President four years later. New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson served as chairman of the convention, while former presidential advisor to Bill Clinton , Lottie Shackelford , served as vice chairwoman of the ...