Barack Obama

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For Immediate Release March 20, 2010 Remarks of President Obama Marking Nowruz Today, I want to extend my best wishes to all who are celebrating Nowruz in the United States and around the world. On this New Year’s celebration, friends and family have a unique opportunity to reflect on the year gone by; to celebrate their time together; and to share in their hopes for the future. One year ago, I chose this occasion to speak directly to the people…

Dear Friends, I’ve been informed that my radio piece on the President Obama’s speech on the new White House cybersecurity strategy is airing today. It will be available on any of these stations (and their Internet streams): NYC – 3 pm Eastern – WNYC – 820 AM – www.wnyc.org Washington, DC – 8 pm Eastern – WAMU – 88.5 FM – www.wamu.org Los Angeles – 12 pm Pacific – KPCC – 89.3 FM – www.kpcc.opg Boston – 4 pm Eastern…

Interview with Barack Obama Newsweek, May 25, 2009 And the last movie you saw? Now, movies I’ve been doing OK [with] because it turns out we got this nice theater on the ground floor of my house … So Star Trek, we saw this weekend, which I thought was good. Everybody was saying I was Spock, so I figured I should check it out and—[the president makes the Vulcan salute with his hand]. Very good. Yes, absolutely. Did you watch…

The New York Times, January 21 2009: For well over two centuries, the United States has been vastly more diverse than its ruling families. Now the Obama family has flipped that around, with a Technicolor cast that looks almost nothing like their overwhelmingly white, overwhelmingly Protestant predecessors in the role. The family that produced Barack and Michelle Obama is black and white and Asian, Christian, Muslim and Jewish. They speak English; Indonesian; French; Cantonese; German; Hebrew; African languages including Swahili,…

The New York Times Magazine has a great online feature called Obama’s People, showing pictures of some of the members of the new administration and his allies in Congress. There’s a slideshow and some narration by Narav Kander (photographer), and Kathy Ryan, the Times Magazine’s director of photography. Basically, the idea was to get them photographed in a small, confined space and to let their gestures to the talking. Also, they asked each person to bring (if they wanted?) a…

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Apparently in early 2001, David Manilow, one of the creators of “Check, Please!” sold his idea for a food TV show to Chicago’s WTTW. One of the early episodes, filmed in August 2001, featured a young state senator named Barack Obama, who was one member of the four-person panel to review Chicago’s Dixie Kitchen. According to The Internet Food Association: The episode was never broadcast. Obama didn’t seem “amateur” enough, and he dominated the show. But on [January 16 2009],…