Christmas in Washington

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Rise and Shine: The Week at TOD

Parade

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See the week’s White House videos here

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Sunday

Early Bird Chat • • Rise and Shine: The Week at TOD • • Happy Father’s Day, 44! • • ObamaCare: 14 Million And Counting • • A Tweet Or Two • • 140 Characters Of Laugh Out Loud

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Monday

Early Bird Chat • • Rise and Shine • • This Is What Change Looks Like • • ObamaCare: Good News All Around • • World Cup Chat Away • • World Cup Chat Away: Second Half • • Chat On! • • A Tweet Or Two

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Tuesday

Early Bird Chat • • Rise and Shine • • Next Up: President Obama at TechShop Pittsburgh • • President Obama at TechShop Pittsburgh • • President Obama Joins the Library Conspiracy • • Techshop Pittsburgh Welcomes President Obama • • The President at the DNC LGBT Gala, Gotham Hall • • America Under President Obama Means Progress

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Wednesday

Early Bird Chat • • Rise and Shine • • The First Lady Speaks at Naturalization Ceremony • • A Nation Of Makers • • The Affordable Care Act Lives Up To Its Name • • A Tweet Or Two

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Thursday

Early Bird Chat • • Rise and Shine • • The President Delivers a Statement on the Situation in Iraq • • The President awards the Medal of Honor • • The President’s Day • • A Tweet Or Two • • Chat On!

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Friday

Early Bird Chat • • Rise and Shine • • John McCain: Always Wrong • • ObamaCare: Signed. Sealed. Delivering. • • The President’s Day • • Chat Away • • The President Gets 3D Printed…Zot!…Zot!…Zot! Thanks Jay!

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Saturday

Early Bird Chat • • Rise and Shine: The Week Ahead • • Chat Away • • Chat On • • Governor O’Malley at the Iowa Democratic Party’s State Convention • Chat Away • • The Saturday Funnies

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MoooOOOooorning!

Rise and Shine: The Week at TOD

President Barack Obama and former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg tour Memorial Hall at the National September 11 Memorial & Museum prior to the 9/11 Museum dedication in New York, N.Y., May 15, 2014 (Photo by Pete Souza)

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Sunday

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Early Bird Chat

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Rise and Shine: The Week Ahead

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@jonfavs: The first speech I ever wrote at age 4 was a real Mother’s Day barnburner. Love you, Mom!

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Chat Away

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@FLOTUS: Thanks for inspiring me to #ReachHigher mom! Wishing you and all the wonderful moms out there a #HappyMothersDay

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Chat On

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I was there when your mother conceived you. In fact she was calling My name. #awwwyeah

— God (@TheTweetOfGod) May 11, 2014

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Laugh Into The Night

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Monday

On This Day: Sen. Barack Obama plays a game of pool during a stop at Schultzie’s Bar & Hot Spot, May 12, 2008 in Springhill, West Virginia. (Photo by Scout Tufankjian)

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Early Bird Chat

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Rise and Shine

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Monday Needs Pictures

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President Obama Honors 2014 Top Cops

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First Lady Michelle Obama Celebrates Moms

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The President And Vice President Honor The Nation’s TOP COPS

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Tuesday

On This Day: Sen. Barack Obama stops to speak with school kids from Holy Cross as he departs after a vote on amendments to S.2284, the “Flood Insurance Reform and Modernization Act of 2007,” on Capitol Hill, May 13, 2008

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Early Bird Chat

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Rise and Shine

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Chat Away

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@petesouza: President Obama signs Medal of Honor award citation with Sergeant Kyle White & family in the Oval Office

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President Obama Awards The Medal of Honor

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The President’s Day

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Rise and Shine: The Week at TOD

Photo of the Week? First Lady Michelle Obama, Sasha and Malia visit the Great Wall of China, March 23 (Photo by Amanda Lucidon)

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And another photo of the week:

Pope Francis and President Obama smile as they exchange gifts at the Vatican, March 27

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Sunday

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The First Lady in China

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Rise and Shine

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Life Can Get Crazy ➞ Get Covered

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ObamaCare Means: Affordable And Comprehensive Coverage

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A Tweet or Two #GetCovered

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Chat Away

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Travels with the First Lady and First Daughters

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Monday

President Obama stands in front of Rembrandt’s The Night Watch during a flying visit to the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam

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Early Bird Chat

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Rise and Shine: The Netherlands and China

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Take the #100Challenge

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The President’s Day

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Happy Birthday, Aretha

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Chat Away

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Chat On

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Tuesday

@petesouza: Pres Obama w young girl during an event at the US Embassy in The Netherlands today

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Early Bird Chat

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President Obama’s News Conference

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Wherein I Go On A Little Rant

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ObamaCare: Not Numbers But People

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The President’s Day

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@PeteSouza: Pres Obama talks on phone to Washington Gov Jay Inslee about mudslide in Oso. Alyssa Mastromonaco is in foreground

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Night Owl Chat – MUSIC MUSIC MUSIC! (and a poem)

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Flanders Fields

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9 Years Ago Today

U.S. Senator Barack Obama re-enacts being sworn-in by U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney on Capitol Hill in Washington, January 4, 2005. With him are his wife Michelle and their two daughters Malia and Sasha.

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Senator Obama talks with his daughter Malia, 6, outside the U.S. Capitol after he was sworn in on January 4, 2005. Chicago Tribune photo by >> Pete Souza <<

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Sasha almost not shaking hands with Cheney? One of the very great moments!

Early Bird Chat

Completely Random Recent Pic

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MoooOOOooorning Early Birds!

Early Bird Chat

President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama, along with daughters Malia (left) and Sasha, sing during the finale of TNT’s “Christmas in Washington”

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MoooOOOooorning Early Birds, Happy Monday!

Chat on, Evening/Night Owls

Christmas in Washington, Dec 15

Christmas in Washington

President Obama, First Lady Michelle Obama and their daughters, Sasha and Malia, pose for photographs alongside children dressed as elves, who are or were patients at Children’s National Medical Center after they presented donated gifts to the Obamas to give to children at the hospital, as they attend a taping of TNT’s Christmas in Washington at the National Building Museum in Washington on December 15

Madiba….. A Life That Will Never Be Forgotten

Rolihlahla Mandela, the son of a Thembu tribal chief, was born in Mvezo, in South Africa’s Eastern Cape on 18 July 1918. He was the first of his family to go to school. It was there he received the name Nelson – it was customary for school children to be given English names. In 1941, he fled to Johannesburg to avoid an arranged marriage. He met Walter Sisulu who helped him get work at law firm Witkin Sidelsky. Mr Mandela joined the African National Congress (ANC) in 1944.

Mr Mandela qualified as a lawyer and in 1952 set up the country’s first black law firm with Oliver Tambo.
Fearing a ban by the apartheid government, the ANC asked Mr Mandela to make plans to ensure the party could work underground.
He was arrested in 1956 and charged with treason along with 155 others. The trial lasted four-and-a-half-years, and ended with his being acquitted. In 1958, he married his second wife, Winnie Madikizela.

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After police killed 69 protesters in Sharpeville in March 1960, the government feared retaliation, so it declared a state of emergency and then banned the ANC. The organisation formed a military wing, led by Mr Mandela.
In 1962, Mr Mandela was arrested and tried for leaving the country illegally. In 1963, while in prison, he was charged with sabotage. He and seven others were sentenced to life in 1964 and jailed on Robben Island.

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Dire Straits and Eric Clapton at Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday tribute

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The international community started to tighten sanctions which had been first imposed on the apartheid regime in 1967. By 1990, the pressure led to President FW de Klerk lifting the ban on the ANC.
On 11 February 1990, Mr Mandela was freed after 27 years in prison. Crowds cheered as he and his wife Winnie left the prison grounds. The next year, Mr Mandela was elected ANC president at the party’s first national conference. Talks began on forming a new, multi-racial democracy.

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