Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., walks the beach with his daughters Malia, 10, left, and Sasha, 7, Aug. 12, 2008
Posts Tagged ‘on
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Dec
13
Chat On!
10
Dec
13
On This Day
President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama dance during the 2009 Nobel Banquet in the Hall of Mirrors at the Grand Hotel in Oslo, Norway, Dec. 10, 2009 (Photo by Pete Souza)
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President Obama looks at the Nobel Peace Prize medal for the first time at the Norwegian Nobel Institute in Oslo, Norway, Dec. 10, 2009 (Photo by Pete Souza)
….. holding the Nobel Prize medal and diploma following the ceremony at the Oslo City Hall (Photo by Pete Souza)
President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama depart Oslo City Hall following the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony (Photo by Pete Souza)
First Lady Michelle Obama looks at pictures of past Nobel Prize recipients at the Norwegian Nobel Institute (Photo by Pete Souza)
President Obama looks out a window at Slottet Royal Palace of Norway following his meeting with King Harald V and Queen Sonja in Oslo (Photo by Pete Souza)
President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama wave from a balcony at the Grand Hotel as they greet the Torch Parade in Oslo (Photo by Pete Souza)
President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama arrive at the 2009 Nobel Banquet in the Hall of Mirrors at the Grand Hotel in Oslo (Photo by Samantha Appleton)
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Sep
13
Early Bird Chat
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MooooOOOOoooorning Early Birds! It was fun catching a couple of worms to start this fine day:
MT @EzraLevant Ronald Reagan never entered Oval Office without a jacket. Obama poses for shots with foot on desk —> pic.twitter.com/KdWEdYU4PD
— TheObamaDiary.com (@TheObamaDiary) September 3, 2013
RT @TeaPartyOrg Does seeing President Obama’s foot on the Oval Office desk make your blood boil? // —> pic.twitter.com/D23Beo1yTg
— TheObamaDiary.com (@TheObamaDiary) September 3, 2013
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Speaking of worms, we can never ever see this enough:
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The Mighty UT will be your R&S hostess with the mostess a little later – happy Tuesday!
27
Aug
13
Coming Up
4:0 EDT: First Lady Michelle Obama delivers remarks at a screening of “The Powerbroker: Whitney Young’s Fight for Civil Rights”
Trailer:
Read about Whitney Young here
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PBS: ‘The March’ premieres tonight at 9:0 ET/PT
‘The March’ is the story of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, told by the people who organized and participated in it. It includes interviews with some of the key actors; members of the inner circles of the core organizational groups; Hollywood supporters and civil rights campaigners; John F. Kennedy administration officials; and the ordinary people who became part of the crowd of thousands, who thronged to Washington D.C. by all and every means: plane, bus and car.
More here
26
Aug
13
Wednesday: ‘Let Freedom Ring’
The Obama family at the Martin Luther King, Jr. National Memorial, Oct. 14, 2011 (Photo by Pete Souza)
WH.gov: President Obama, President Clinton and President Carter to Commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the March on Washington
This Wednesday will mark 50 years since Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his iconic “I Have a Dream” speech at the base of the Lincoln Memorial; a moment which served to punctuate a movement that changed America.
To honor this occasion, President Obama will be joined Wednesday, August 28th, by President Jimmy Carter and President Bill Clinton, members of the King family and other civil rights leaders and luminaries at the Let Freedom Ring Commemoration and Call to Action event at the Lincoln Memorial, to commemorate Dr. King’s soaring speech and the 1963 March on Washington.
… This event is open to the public. Doors open at 9:00 AM, for an 11:00 AM program start on Wednesday, August 28th at the Lincoln Memorial. Guests arriving after 12:00 PM are not guaranteed admittance. In order to access the venue, you must enter from the east side of the Reflecting Pool, on 17th street, near the World War II Memorial.
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Ebony: …… President Barack Obama and former Presidents Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter will honor Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s call to “Let freedom ring” by ringing bells at 3:00 p.m. EDT, a half-century to the very minute after Dr. King delivered his historic address. Groups across the country will also pause to mark the 50th anniversary of Dr. King’s speech by ringing bells at 3:00 p.m. EDT.
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Coming Up Today (EDT):
2:0 Secretary of State Kerry statement on Syria (CBS)
2:10: President Obama awards Staff Sergeant Ty M. Carter, U.S. Army, the Medal of Honor
3:0 (changed from 12:30): Jay Carney briefs the press
“3000 miles to history”
“Some people pooh-poohed the idea. They didn’t think it was going to work. They thought there was going to be a lot of violence, and so our committee met every weekand we said, O.K., what do we need to move this really large group of people from all over, to bring them in? We needed public relations. We needed to have a medical corps of nurses and doctors on hand. We needed to have Porta-Pottys, arrange transportation. Once we had charter buses, regular buses coming in—what’s going to happen to those? Where are people going to park?”
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Harry Belafonte
As a kid, there was not much I could aspire to, because the achievement of black people in spaces of power and rule and governance was not that evident, and therefore we were diminished in the way we thought we could access power and be part of the American fabric. So we who came back from this war having expectations and finding that there were none to be harvested were put upon to make a decision. We could accept the status quo as it was beginning to reveal itself with these oppressive laws still in place. Or, as had begun to appear on the horizon, stimulated by something Mahatma Gandhi of India had done, we could start this quest for social change by confronting the state a little differently. Let’s do it nonviolently, let’s use passive thinking applied to aggressive ideas, and perhaps we could overthrow the oppression by making it morally unacceptable.”
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The bus was on fire and was filling up with smoke. -Hank Thomas
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“Separate, but equal” drinking fountains in North Carolina, photographed by Elliott Erwitt in 1950.
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“When I first met Dr. King, I was 16, and he came to speak at our high school gathering. They have kids from all over the country come as representatives of their part of the country. So there were a couple hundred of us, and we would meet in groups and discuss politics, and we were discussingnonviolence because it was a Quaker-based group. And then Dr. King came and spoke, and I was just stunned, because this man was doing what we had talked about. They had just started the more publicly seen and known boycotts in Montgomery, and I just wept through the whole thing, because it made something real to me. It was real, but I hadn’t seen an example of it in my daily life, and there it was.”
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Aug
13
The March on Washington, IV
The honor was all mine! RT @NoShock: I had the honor of marching with @GovernorOMalley pic.twitter.com/0wI56PmvKD
— Martin O’Malley (@GovernorOMalley) August 24, 2013
Donna!!!!!!
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Live streaming:
C-Span * National Action Network
24
Aug
13
The March on Washington, III
A marcher holds a U.S. flag bearing the image of President Barack Obama during the 50th anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom at the Lincoln Memorial
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C-Span * National Action Network
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Legacy:
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Aug
13
The March on Washington, II
Marchers clasp hands in prayer during the commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington August 24
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C-Span * National Action Network
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Main Speakers (from 11:0 AM EDT):
Nancy Pelosi * Bernice King * Steny Hoyer * Myrlie Evers-Williams * Attorney General Eric Holder * Martin Luther King, III * Rev. Al Sharpton * Trayvon Martin family * Emmett Till family
12:30:
March down Independence Avenue, passing the King Memorial to the Washington Monument
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Jesse Jackson: “We elected Barack Obama, the crown jewel of our work”
— TheObamaDiary.com (@TheObamaDiary) August 24, 2013
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Legacy – from yesterday, heading to see the President in Scranton:
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“Voting is the language of democracy.” – Wade Henderson, President of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights. #MOW50 #MLK
— Nerdy Wonka (@NerdyWonka) August 24, 2013
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Love this photo, Sidney Poitier and Harry Belafonte at the 1963 March on Washington pic.twitter.com/KqH2kXMxbo
— TheObamaDiary.com (@TheObamaDiary) August 24, 2013
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A sheet of the U.S. Postal Service stamp commemorating the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington is seen during an unveiling event at the Newseum in Washington
The Obama Diary 
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