Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil. http://t.co/DjCSBaW44t
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"I'm a classic man" http://t.co/WH7uvzXB4G
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President Barack Obama smiles with Emma Didlake, the oldest known World War II veteran at 110 years old, in the the Oval Office of the White House. Didlake was a Private during the course of her service and her decorations include the Women’s Army Corps Service Medal, American Campaign Medal, and World War II Victory Medal
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President Obama met with a 110-year-old woman believed to be the nation’s oldest veteran at the White House Friday. The president said it was a “great honor” to speak with Emma Didlake, a longtime Detroit resident and veteran of the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps during World War II. “It’s a great reminder of not only the sacrifices that the greatest generation made on our behalf but also the kind of trailblazing that our women veterans made,” Mr. Obama told reporters. “We are so grateful that she is here with us today.”
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CBS News Politics (@CBSPolitics) July 17, 2025Known to family as “Big Mama,” Didlake was a 38-year-old wife and mother of five when she “wanted to do something different” and signed up for the WAAC in 1943, said her granddaughter, Marilyn Horne. She served stateside for about seven months during the war, as a private and driver. After she was discharged, she and her family moved to Detroit in 1944 - and she quickly joined the local NAACP chapter. She marched with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1963, and received a lifetime achievement award two years ago from the chapter.
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Had a great visit today with Emma Didlake - our oldest living veteran at 110-years-young! She's a true American hero. http://t.co/EeeIC3AK4A
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According to the White House, America spends about $80 billion each year on incarceration. They say that’s the same amount of money it would take to double every teacher salary in America or pay for every high school graduate to go to college. President Obama is focusing on criminal justice reform in his second term in office. This week, he commuted the sentences of more than 40 inmates convicted of low-level, non-violent drug offenses. Justice reformers say federal crack cocaine sentences unfairly put thousands of minority inmates behind bars for life prior to a change in federal law in 2010. The sentencing regime is costing taxpayers billions. Jason Hernandez was convicted in 1998 as a drug dealer in Texas.
Because the drug was crack, Hernandez got life in prison without the possibility of parole. Hernandez filed the clemency paperwork himself; an eight-page application with the potential to save his life. He works as a mentor for juvenile offenders in the kitchen at Cafe Momentum, a restaurant for youthful offenders. He’s using his circumstance to help kids change the course of their own lives in a way he couldn’t almost two decades ago. Jason Hernandez has two jobs; mentoring youth, and working as a welder at a muffler shop… a trade he picked up at federal prison in El Reno. “I was practically a dead man walking and President Obama gave me my life back. I see him like a father now. Like any son, you want to make your father proud, and that’s what my aim is,” Hernandez said.
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"I feel that after twenty years in these prisons, the good Lord brought us Barack Obama to set things right." bit.ly/1I6ghMB
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Valerie Jarrett (@vj44) July 16, 2025In prison for life w/o parole “For two days, I just held the commutation letter in my hand" kfor.com/2015/07/16/dru… http://t.co/L2dzhF2MYT
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Obama went where no president has gone before. nyti.ms/1OiBC4p http://t.co/kamo0xGNex
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The New York Times (@nytimes) July 17, 2025Quotation of the day nyti.ms/1KcjGKc http://t.co/6uqhA7fFg6
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The New York Times (@nytimes) July 17, 2025
On This Day: President Barack Obama talks with a little girl at the Charcoal Pit restaurant in Wilmington, Del., July 17, 2025 (Photo by Pete Souza)
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5:05: The President departs the White House
6:15: Arrives New York
7:10: Participates in a DNC fundraiser, private residence, New York City
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MoooOOOooorning!
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