We Remember…

One year on from Orlando, take some time to remember the faces and stories of the LGBT people and allies we lost 💔🌈https://t.co/xlgAODYuzx pic.twitter.com/v0eXv0Mb8W

— Attitude Magazine (@AttitudeMag) June 12, 2017

Today, in 1967, the justices of the Supreme Court unanimously agreed that outlawing interracial marriage was unconstitutional. #LovingDay pic.twitter.com/e0QBFH7TbN

— Vice President Kamala Harris (@VP) June 12, 2017

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Remember when? One of the best days ever at the White House. pic.twitter.com/kmZvmdlHL1

— Susan Rice (@AmbassadorRice) June 10, 2017

Today we remember #civilrights activist #MedgarEvers, who was killed #otd 54 years ago https://t.co/VLDd06TXAV pic.twitter.com/GkZOq2byU1

— Legal Defense Fund (@NAACP_LDF) June 12, 2017

Our Forever First Lady

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Jeff Weiner

Obama participated in a 45-minute Q&A during the American Institute of Architects’ annual conference at the Orange County Convention Center on Thursday. She spoke about adjusting to life after the White House and discussed her goals for the future and causes she hopes to support. “One issue that I am excited about continuing to work on is … to help young girls get an education around the world,” she said, citing the Let Girls Learn initiative she launched as first lady. Obama also stressed the need to combat violence against women and improve their access to healthcare.

Obama said said she and her family were enjoying the freedoms of post-White House life, such as being able to open their windows at night, travel without a motorcade and answer their own front door. Despite her hesitance to seek elected office in the future, Michelle Obama pledged that she and her husband will be active in social causes. “Barack and I have been in public service our whole lives,” she said. “Public service will always be in our blood.”

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Early Bird Chat

President Barack Obama meets an adorable little girl while campaigning in Kissimmee, Florida

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All Times Eastern

9:35AM: President Obama departs the White House

11:10AM: President Obama arrives in Ann Arbor, Michigan

12:35PM: President Obama delivers remarks at a Hillary Clinton rally; University of Michigan

2:10PM: President Obama departs Michigan

3:50PM: President Obama arrives in Durham, New Hampshire

4:45PM: President Obama delivers remarks at a Hillary Clinton rally; University of New Hampshire

6:05PM: President Obama departs New Hampshire

7:25PM: President Obama arrives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

8:15PM: President Obama, First Lady Michelle Obama, Hillary and Bill Clinton deliver remarks at a rally; Independence Mall

9:55PM: President Obama departs Philadelphia

10:50PM: President Obama arrives at the White House

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President Obama: A Fundamentally Decent Human Being

Steve Schale

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Zeke Miller

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President Obama Campaigns In Orlando

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Live Here

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President Obama campaigns in Kissimmee, FL - LIVE at 3:30pm ET on C-SPAN https://t.co/Us48jlCMaN #Election2016 pic.twitter.com/XEE9eUhDdQ

— CSPAN (@cspan) November 6, 2016

The President’s Day

The Intimacy Of A Hug

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Julie Hirschfeld Davis: Long And Genuine’ Hugs: Shooting Victims’ Relatives Recall Obama’s Empathy

The wrenching ritual has become all too familiar to President Obama. His armored limousine deposits him at a nondescript building big enough to hold a large number of families whose loved ones have died in a mass shooting somewhere in America. Away from the news cameras that normally track his every interaction, he enters rooms thick with grief and the hushed voices of people in shock. He grasps for words of sympathy, comfort and condolence and offers long, tight embraces that the mourners will remember far more vividly than his words. Mr. Obama will travel to Orlando, Fla., on Thursday for the latest round of mass consoling, four days after a gunman killed 49 people and wounded 53 at a gay nightclub in the deadliest mass shooting in American history. “He hugged each one of us individually — and I mean hug, so that I was able to smell his cologne,” said Sharon Risher, 57, who lost her mother,

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Ethel Lance, and two cousins in the shooting in Charleston, S.C., last year, and met privately with Mr. Obama the next week. “It was not a little pat on the back. The intimacy of that hug is what I’ll always remember.”  Roxanna Green — whose 9-year-old daughter, Christina-Taylor Green, was one of six people killed in a 2011 shooting in a supermarket parking lot in Tuscon, Ariz., where Representative Gabrielle Giffords was holding an event — said she had campaigned for Mr. Obama with her daughter and mother and had often dreamed of meeting him. “But you never want to receive a visit like that from anybody,” Ms. Green, 50, said in an interview. “Their hugs were just long and genuine, like something you receive from a family member,” she said of Mr. and Mrs. Obama. “He said she was a beautiful girl, and he’s so sorry, and it was just a horrible loss and his girls are about the same age,” she recalled. “They were both very, very emotional. It was like it happened to someone in their family.”

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Early Bird Chat: Standing With Orlando

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All Times Eastern

10:00AM: President Obama receives the Presidential Daily Briefing

1:00PM: Press Secretary Josh Earnest holds the White House Daily Briefing

3:15PM: President Obama visits with wounded warriors at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland

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The President And Vice President’s Day In Orlando

President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden place flowers for the victims of the mass shooting at a gay nightclub Sunday at a memorial at the Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts in Orlando, Florida

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Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer holds up a “Orlando United” t-shirt while greeting President Barack Obama

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‘Make It Stop’

I am proud to announce that after 14+ hours on the floor, we will have a vote on closing the terror gap & universal background checks

— Chris Murphy 🟧 (@ChrisMurphyCT) June 16, 2016

15 hrs on the floor. 2 hrs of sleep. And I'm back on my (tired) feet, ready to keep pressing Congress to end its silence on gun violence.

— Chris Murphy 🟧 (@ChrisMurphyCT) June 16, 2016

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Her Grandson Was Killed In Orlando. What These Passengers Did On Her Flight to His Funeral? TEARS! https://t.co/lpICV87W4i

— waltb31 (@waltb31) June 16, 2016

This is the cover of the @BostonGlobe tomorrow - & they are 100% correct. #filibuster #holdthefloor pic.twitter.com/wO1CicfoWk

— Elizabeth Warren (@SenWarren) June 16, 2016

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Cover of Time Magazine, honoring all victims of #OrlandoShooting. @news6wkmg #Orlando #OrlandoUnited pic.twitter.com/7xm2eF0UGQ

— Troy Campbell (@TroyLeeCampbell) June 16, 2016

Watch the powerful end to Sen. Murphy's 15-hour #filibuster. Full story here: https://t.co/aZ2u55RxaQhttps://t.co/Z5SCJ9hdFH

— NBC News (@NBCNews) June 16, 2016