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Obama: In Pursuit of a More Perfect Union is a 2021 documentary series about Barack Obama, the 44th President of the United States. [1] [2] [3] It was directed by Peter Kunhardt and is named after Obama's March 18, 2008 speech, which he delivered during his 2008 campaign. It was released in August 2021 to coincide with Obama's 60th birthday. [4]
The question was asked on 'Pod Save America,' a podcast from new media start-up Crooked Media featuring former Obama staffers and speechwriters. Obama: This was the scariest night of my presidency ...
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]
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.
President Barack Obama took partial responsibility for years of Democratic losses in governor's mansions and statehouses across the country.
Official portrait of Barack Obama, the first African-American U.S. president Following the 2008 United States presidential election , media around the world reacted in a variety of ways. Most expressed positive hopes and expectations for the president-elect, but some tried to prepare their readers for disappointment.
The former presidential candidate had some serious words of wisdom for the Class of 2015 -- things he learned by losing to President Barack Obama Mitt Romney tells graduates what it was like ...
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.