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  • Living While Obama: A New World Leader

    President Obama and the newly elected French president, François Hollande, adjust their coats after a bilateral meeting in the Oval Office at the White House on May 18. Just three days after being sworn in to replace pro-America President Nicolas Sarkozy, Hollande, a Socialist, held Oval Office talks with Obama.

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  • Living While Obama: Paying Respects to Police Officers

    President Obama hugs a survivor during the 31st Annual National Peace Officers’ Memorial Service at the West Front Lawn of the U.S. Capitol on May 15 in Washington, D.C. Obama attended the annual event to honor law-enforcement officers who were killed in the line of duty during the previous year. Like The Root on Facebook. Follow us…

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  • Living While Obama: College Commencement

    President Obama greets a graduate before making the commencement address at Barnard College on May 14 in New York. Obama headed to New York to speak at the Barnard College commencement, appear on The View and attend a campaign fundraiser.

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  • Living While Obama: Honoring Military Mothers

    The first lady greets guests during a reception for military children and their families in honor of Mother’s Day in the East Room of the White House on May 10. Children created flower arrangements, Mother’s Day cards and cookies in the State Dining Room before presenting them to their families.

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  • Living While Obama: Student Interest

    President Obama speaks with graduating seniors and their parents on May 4 at Washington-Lee High School in Arlington, Va., during a roundtable discussion on the interest rates of federally subsidized student loans. Without congressional intervention, student-loan interest rates are set to double on July 1.

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  • Living While Obama: Presenting Purple Hearts

    President Obama greets hospital personnel in the intensive care unit at Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan on May 1. The president presented 10 Purple Hearts, three of them in the ICU.

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  • Living While Obama: An East-West Agreement

    President Barack Obama and Yoshihiko Noda, Japan’s prime minister, shake hands during a news conference in the East Room of the White House on Monday, April 30. Last week U.S. and Japan announced an agreement to relocate about 9,000 Marines from Okinawa, addressing a source of friction between the two allies.

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  • Living While Obama: In the Hot Seat

    First lady Michelle Obama takes questions from children of Executive Office employees in the East Room on April 26 during the White House’s annual Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day.

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  • Living While Obama: Historical Reflection

    President Obama sits on the famed Rosa Parks bus at the Henry Ford Museum after an event in Dearborn, Mich., on April 18.

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  • Living While Obama: Hosting NASCAR

    President Barack Obama looks at the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Championship trophy as he approaches Tony Stewart’s car during an event on the South Lawn of the White House on April 17. NASCAR drivers Tony Stewart (left), Kyle Busch and Ryan Newman watch nearby.

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