Tag: white house
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December 22, 2009 06:03 AM EST --
WASHINGTON (AP) — If talks with Myanmar over democratic reforms fail, the Obama administration could tie up large amounts of money that the country's ruling generals stash in international banks . . .
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December 22, 2009 06:03 AM EST --
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is gathering small bankers at the White House to prod them into lending more to small businesses.
The housing foreclosure crisis and the proposed revamp . . .
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December 22, 2009 10:03 AM EST --
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama says the only Christmas presents he needs from his daughters are hugs.
During an interview on the Tom Joyner Morning Show, Obama said he and first lady . . .
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December 22, 2009 01:03 PM EST --
WASHINGTON (AP) — Obama says he won't leave Washington until Senate finishes work on health care.
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December 22, 2009 03:03 PM EST --
WASHINGTON (AP) — Sick children at a hospital in the nation's capital got a dose of holiday cheer when first lady Michelle Obama paid them a visit.
She also brought along daughters Malia and Sasha . . .
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December 22, 2009 04:04 PM EST --
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is getting "sports stuff" for Christmas.
First lady Michelle Obama would reveal only that much during a visit to Children's National Medical Center in . . .
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December 22, 2009 09:02 AM EST --
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama says his holiday plans depend on how soon the Senate can hold a final vote on its health care bill.
The president and his family are expected to spend . . .
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December 22, 2009 05:03 PM EST --
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is getting "sports stuff" for Christmas.
But the president, an avid golfer and basketball player, will have to wait until Dec. 25 to find out exactly what . . .
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December 22, 2009 01:03 PM EST --
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama won't leave Washington for his Hawaii vacation until the Senate finishes work on the health care overhaul, even if that means staying in town for Christmas . . .
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December 22, 2009 12:03 PM EST --
WASHINGTON (AP) — A White House spokesman says health care overhaul legislation has progressed to the point that its enactment is no longer in question.
Spokesman Robert Gibbs told reporters Tuesday . . .
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December 21, 2009 05:03 PM EST --
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama have received their swine flu shots.
Obama said Monday that he and his wife "just got the shots." A White House official . . .
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December 21, 2009 05:03 PM EST --
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is defending himself against criticism from some black leaders who say he isn't showing enough compassion for the plight of regular blacks.
Obama said . . .
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December 21, 2009 06:04 PM EST --
WASHINGTON (AP) — Barack Obama brought a beloved book to read. He brought a press entourage. He brought cookies shaped like Bo the dog. Hey, he brought himself.
But the president of the United . . .
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December 22, 2009 11:00 AM EST --
WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House is warning Iran's leader to take seriously a year-end deadline over its nuclear program, responding sternly to defiant language by the Iranian president.
President . . .
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December 22, 2009 12:03 PM EST --
WASHINGTON (AP) — Outgoing Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine got a surprise on his radio show Tuesday — a phone call from President Barack Obama.
Kaine was taking calls during his final appearance . . .
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December 21, 2009 04:03 PM EST --
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama made a holiday visit to a youth center Monday to read to local schoolchildren.
The president traveled from the White House to the Richard England Clubhouse . . .
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December 21, 2009 06:03 AM EST --
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is sounding the theme of efficiency today.
The president meets privately with Nancy Fichtner, a Veterans Affairs Department employee from Colorado who's . . .
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December 13, 2009 05:08 PM EST --
President Obama was recently interviewed by Steve Kroft to be aired tonight, Sunday, December 13 on CBS’s 60 Minutes at 7 p.m. ET/PT. In the interview Obama talks about bankers’ . . .
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December 21, 2009 10:02 AM EST --
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration says the federal government is on track to meet its goal of saving $40 billion a year in contract costs by fiscal year 2011.
The Office of Management . . .
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December 20, 2009 01:04 PM EST --
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama plans to deal with a Dec. 31 deadline that automatically would declassify secrets in more than 400 million pages of Cold War-era documents by ordering government-wide . . .
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