President of the United States from 2009 to 2017 (born 1961)
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The first African American president held the office from 2009 to 2017, a tenure defined by health care reform, the bin Laden raid, and a Nobel Prize awarded nine months in.
Born in Honolulu in 1961, Obama worked as a community organizer in Chicago before Harvard Law School, where he became the first Black president of the Harvard Law Review. He taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago from 1992 to 2004 while climbing through Illinois politics—state senator in 1997, U.S. senator in 2005. After a tight primary against Hillary Clinton, he won the 2008 election with Joe Biden and entered office as the financial crisis peaked. His first term brought the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, the Affordable Care Act, Dodd-Frank, two Supreme Court appoint…
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[Americans have] a continuing normative commitment to the ideals of individual freedom and mobility, values that extend far beyond the issue of race in the American mind.
I don't oppose all wars. What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war.
Now let me be clear: I suffer no illusions about Saddam Hussein. He is a brutal man. A ruthless man.
We may have occasion in our lifetime to once again rise up in defense of our freedom, and pay the wages of war.
Throughout its history, Israel has been anxious to make peace with its Arab neighbors.
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