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Obama was a member of the Illinois Senate from 1997 to 2004 and represented the state in the United States Senate from 2005 to 2008 before becoming president. Illinois celebrates the day on August 4, Obama's birthday, each year. Similar to other commemorative holidays, it is not a legal state holiday, i.e. workplaces are not closed on the day. [1]
Obama also represented a generational change as the first man elected president who was born in the 1960s. He inherited the 2007–2008 financial crisis, which Peter Orszag termed an "economic mess". [7] Obama was 47 years, 169 days old on the day of taking the office, which makes him the fifth youngest person to be inaugurated to date.
Catch up with the USA TODAY Network's live coverage of the Democratic convention in Chicago. Michelle Obama hits Trump over ‘Black jobs’ remark in her speech
Former President Barack Obama is expected to be the final speaker of Day 2 of the 2024 Democratic National Convention.
Former President Obama wished his wife Michelle Obama a happy birthday on Friday, calling her "the love of my life.". The former first lady, who turned 61, has largely avoided being out in public ...
Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama [1] (née Robinson; born January 17, 1964) is an American attorney and author who served as the first lady of the United States from 2009 to 2017, being married to Barack Obama, the 44th president of the United States. Raised on the South Side of Chicago, Obama is a graduate of Princeton University and Harvard ...
ABC News will air one hour of primetime coverage from 10-11 p.m. ET on Tuesday, and two hours on Wednesday and Thursday, from 9-11 p.m. ET. ABC News Live, the network's streaming news channel ...
In February 2010, Obama announced that he was cutting the program from the 2011 United States federal budget, describing it as "over budget, behind schedule, and lacking in innovation." [ 246 ] [ 247 ] After the decision drew criticism in the United States, a new "Flexible path to Mars " plan was unveiled at a space conference in April 2010.