Honoring Unsung Heroes
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During Black History Month, we pause to salute and reflect on the contributions African Americans have made to the rich fabric that makes up the United States. There are many untold stories that reveal the best of Americans who stepped up when duty called, broke color barriers, or quietly made their communities better one person at a time. In t... Read more
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- -: Honoring Unsung Heroes
February 28, 2012 (about 12 years ago)During Black History Month, we pause to salute and reflect on the contributions African Americans have made to the rich fabric that makes up the United States. There are many untold stories that reveal the best of Americans who stepped up when duty called, broke color barriers, or quietly made th...
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- -: TEDxBrainport - Sander Veenhof - 3D 2.0
May 24, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)Do you want a personal hotline to the Oval Office? Or your own artwork exhibited at the New York Museum of Modern Art (MOMA)? Sander Veenhof can arrange it for you. Or actually, he already has. With a bit of the guerrila in his talk and in his projects, he triggers us to activate our creativity a...
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- -: Inside the White House: Letters to the President
August 2, 2009 (almost 15 years ago)Every day, President Obama reads ten letters from the public in order to stay in tune with America's issues and concerns. "Letters to the President" is an exclusive, behind-the-scenes look at the process of how those ten letters make it to the President's desk from among the tens of thousands of ...
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- -: President Obama and NATO Secretary General Rasmussen on Afghanistan, Russia
September 29, 2009 (over 14 years ago)President Obama and NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, former President of Denmark, address the press after meeting in the Oval Office to discuss progress in Afghanistan. September 29, 2009. (Public Domain)
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- -: President Obama Meets with Peruvian President Garcia
June 2, 2010 (almost 14 years ago)The President and President Alan Garcia of Peru speak to the media after meeting in the Oval Office. June 1, 2010.
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- -: President Obama Meets with Palestinian President Abbas
June 9, 2010 (almost 14 years ago)President Obama announces $400 million in additional help for housing, schools, and development in Gaza and the West Bank as he and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas speak to the press after meeting in the Oval Office. June 9, 2010.
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- -: President Obama's Oval Office Address on BP Oil Spill & Energy
June 16, 2010 (almost 14 years ago)The President addresses the American people from the Oval Office for the first time on the ongoing Administration-wide response to the BP oil spill and America's clean energy future.
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- -: Open for Questions: Gibbs on Oval Address, BP Oil Spill
June 16, 2010 (almost 14 years ago)Press Secretary Robert Gibbs takes questions submitted and voted on by the public via YouTube following the President's address from the Oval Office on the BP oil spill and clean energy.
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- -: West Wing Week: 06/18/10 or "Gator-cade"
June 18, 2010 (almost 14 years ago)Thanks for checking out the West Wing Week, your guide to everything that's happening at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. Join President Obama this week as he hosts an event for small business owners in the Oval Office, makes his fourth trip to the Gulf Coast, meets with governors, residents and workers to...
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- -: West Wing Week: 06/25/10 or "Mailbag Day"
June 25, 2010 (almost 14 years ago)Mailbag Day! We decided to make episode thirteen of West Wing Week a chance to respond to some of your letters and emails. This week, find out if the White House composts, learn which direction the eagle on the Presidential seal faces, and examine the process by which the flag flying over the Whi...
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