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The Obamas’ Marriage

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On Oct. 3, just a day after their failed Olympics bid in Copenhagen, Barack and Michelle Obama slipped into a Georgetown restaurant for one of their now-familiar date nights: this time, to toast their 17th wedding anniversary. As with their previous outings, even the dark photographs taken by passers-by and posted on the Web looked glamorous: the president tieless, in a suit; the first lady in a backless sheath.

Published: Oct 26, 2009
Length: 33 minutes (8,433 words)

The Ultimate Obama Insider

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It was about trust: if Valerie Jarrett told Barack Obama that something was the right thing to do, he would very likely do it.

Published: Jul 21, 2009
Length: 32 minutes (8,141 words)

And Data for All: Why Obama’s Geeky New CIO Wants to Put All Gov’t Info Online

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The Obama administration’s most radical idea may also be its geekiest: Make nearly every hidden government spreadsheet and buried statistic available online, all in one place. For anyone to see. On Vivek Kundra and Data.gov

Source: Wired
Published: Jun 18, 2009
Length: 6 minutes (1,523 words)

Meet Orly Taitz, Queen Bee of People Obsessed With Barack Obama’s Birth Certificate

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Birth of an Obsession – With her strong will, busy travel schedule and breathless blogging, Laguna Niguel dentist Orly Taitz has become the most controversial figure in the effort to prove that President Barack Obama is foreign-born

Source: OC Weekly
Published: Jun 18, 2009
Length: 17 minutes (4,265 words)

Transcript: Remarks of President Obama in Cairo

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We meet at a time of tension between the United States and Muslims around the world – tension rooted in historical forces that go beyond any current policy debate. The relationship between Islam and the West includes centuries of co-existence and cooperation, but also conflict and religious wars. More recently, tension has been fed by colonialism that denied rights and opportunities to many Muslims, and a Cold War in which Muslim-majority countries were too often treated as proxies without regard to their own aspirations. Moreover, the sweeping change brought by modernity and globalization led many Muslims to view the West as hostile to the traditions of Islam.

Source: Fox News
Published: Jun 4, 2009
Length: 23 minutes (5,848 words)

Obama’s Commencement Address at Notre Dame

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President Obama’s commencement address at the University of Notre Dame on May 17, 2009, as released by the White House.

Published: May 17, 2009
Length: 14 minutes (3,609 words)

After the Great Recession: Interview with President Obama

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This was our third interview about the economy, the first two occurring during last year’s campaign. And while the setting was decidedly more formal this time — the Oval Office — the interview felt as conversational as those earlier ones. We sat at the far end of the office from his desk and spoke for 50 minutes.

Published: Apr 28, 2009
Length: 24 minutes (6,190 words)

Obama’s Foreign Policy Challenge

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Source: Washington Post
Published: Apr 22, 2009
Length: 4 minutes (1,195 words)

Picking Letters, 10 a Day, That Reach Obama

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Tens of thousands of letters, e-mail messages and faxes arrive at the White House every day. A few hundred are culled and end up each weekday afternoon on a round wooden table in the office of Mr. Kelleher, the director of the White House Office of Correspondence.

Published: Apr 19, 2009
Length: 4 minutes (1,020 words)

Obama’s Frenemies

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As debate erupts on the Web over Obama’s visit with Chavez—was it an embrace or a blowoff?—Matthew Yglesias says that everyone’s missing the point.

Source: Daily Beast
Published: Apr 21, 2009
Length: 4 minutes (1,046 words)