Archive for August, 2015



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Aug
15

The Week Ahead

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Monday

The President will travel to Anchorage, Alaska. While there, he will participate in a roundtable with Alaska Natives and address the Global Leadership in the Arctic: Cooperation, Innovation, Engagement and Resilience (GLACIER) Conference.

GLACIER will convene foreign ministers from Arctic nations and key non-Arctic states with scientists, policymakers, and stakeholders from Alaska and the Arctic region to discuss how climate change is reshaping the Arctic, increase global awareness of how Arctic climate change is affecting the rest of the world, and identify individual and collective actions to address these challenges.

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Tuesday

The President will travel to the Seward area, where he will hike to Exit Glacier, participate in a boat tour of Kenai Fjords National Park and have the opportunity to view the effects of climate change firsthand.

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Wednesday

The President will travel to Dillingham, Alaska, where he will meet with local fisherman and families. He will then travel to Kotzebue, Alaska, where he will deliver remarks. In the evening, he will depart Alaska en route Washington, DC.

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Thursday

The President will attend meetings at the White House.

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Friday

The President will host King Salman bin Abd alAziz of Saudi Arabia at the White House.

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30
Aug
15

Early Bird Rise and Shine

On This Day - Pete Souza: “Seemingly trying to catch a look, Bo, the Obama family dog, sits outside the Oval Office as the President and First Lady participated in a promotion ceremony.” Aug. 30, 2013

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MoooOOOooorning!

29
Aug
15

Photo of the Week?

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29
Aug
15

You Become President To Do Something; Not Be Something

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Ashley Alman: A Boy Who Asked Obama About Stem Cell Research In 2007 Writes To Say It Saved His Life

A young cancer survivor sent President Barack Obama a moving letter thanking him for keeping a promise made during a 2007 campaign stop — a promise the boy says saved his life. Gavin Nore, a teen from Fort Dodge, Iowa, told Obama in a letter shared by the White House Tuesday that he’d had the opportunity to meet the president during his first presidential campaign.

At the time, Nore asked Obama whether he’d continue stem cell research during his presidency, to which the president responded he would. In February 2013, Nore was diagnosed with Hodgkin lymphoma. He was 14 years old. Nore said he was “cancer free” by that summer, but was later re-diagnosed. “I had to have a stem cell transplant. I beat the battle once again,” Nore wrote to the president. “I would like to thank you very much for continuing the research. If the research haden’t [sic] continued, I wouldn’t be here today.”

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29
Aug
15

Chat Away

29
Aug
15

Early Bird Rise and Shine

On This Day - Pete Souza: “I was on the second helicopter and arrived moments before Marine One touched down at Brenton Point in Newport, R.I. I bet one of the advance staff that after landing, instead of walking to the motorcade the President would walk across the road to view the ocean at sunset. I won the bet.” Aug. 29, 2014

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President Obama greets five-month-old Davida Asen and her mother Rebecca Watson in the Outer Oval Office, Aug. 28, 2015. Rebecca’s brother-in-law, Jonathan Asen, Office of Legislative Affairs, brought his family to have departure photos taken with the President (Photo by Pete Souza)

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MoooOOOooorning!

28
Aug
15

A Tweet or Two

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28
Aug
15

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