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In mid-1971, Obama moved back to Hawaii to live with his grandparents and attend Punahou School starting in fifth grade. [34] [35] In December 1971, Obama was visited for a month by his father, Barack Obama Sr., from Kenya. It was the last time Obama would see his father.
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".
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
The first family mainly took domestic trips to destinations like Yellowstone National Park in 2009, Acadia National Park in Maine in 2010 and to Barack's home state of Hawaii over his tenure in ...
Obama said efforts needed to be “stepped up” and that thoughts and prayers “in a moment like this are not enough”, as he urged members of the public to donate to aid those affected.
Hawaii, Barack Obama's birth state, gave him 71.9% of the vote with a 45.3% margin of victory in 2008. Prior to the election, all 17 news organizations considered this a state Obama would win, or otherwise considered as a safe blue state. Hawaii has voted Democratic in every presidential election since 1988.
President Obama's Hawaii vacation: Day 8. Andrew Tavani. Updated July 14, 2016 at 7:31 PM. President Obama's Hawaii vacation: Day 8.
Barack Hussein Obama Sr. (/ ˈ b ær ə k h uː ˈ s eɪ n oʊ ˈ b ɑː m ə /; [9] [10] born Baraka Obama, 18 June 1934 [2] [3] – 24 November 1982) was a Kenyan senior governmental economist and the father of Barack Obama, the 44th president of the United States. He is a central figure of his son's memoir, Dreams from My Father (1995 ...