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Barack Obama: 44th president of the U.S.
The Swampby Mark Silva Barack Hussein Obama, born of a mother from Kansas and father from Kenya who had their only son in Hawaii, will take the oath of office as 44th president of the United States at noon today on......Tags: Heads of State, Dianne Feinstein, Arts and Culture, Defense, Politics
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Obama's inauguration: 'Coming together'
The Swampby Mark Silva Inauguration Day has dawned for President-elect Barack Obama, with hundreds of thousands of onlookers filling the National Mall for the noon swearing-in of the 44th president. Obama and wife Michelle stopped for a church service and then.......Tags: Heads of State, NBC (tv network), Theodore Roosevelt, Dianne Feinstein, Arts and Culture
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M.L. King's 'dream' fulfilled, many say
The Swampby Mark Silva Today, as a nation marks the birthday of the late Rev. Martin Luther King. Jr, -- who voiced "a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed:......Tags: Alabama, Social Problems, Racism, U.S. Presidential Election (2008), National or Ethnic Minorities
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Lincoln, a man of his time for all time
The Swampby Frank James The Chicago Tribune, which endorsed Abraham Lincoln twice for the presidency, has a worthy appreciation today of the 16th president of the U.S. on its editorial page. It notes that Lincoln, like a lot of people, was......Tags: Government, Abraham Lincoln, White House, Social Issues, National Government
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Obama: 'First African-American president'
The Swampby Mark Silva On a day when the achievements of African-Americans in attaining positions long denied them were on the minds of many in Washington, retired Rear Adm. Stephen Rochon, White House "chief usher'' and director of the executive residence,......Tags: Justice and Rights, Arts and Culture, Crime, Law and Justice, National or Ethnic Minorities, Civil Rights
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Bobby Jindal: Mr. Rogers, Kenneth, 2012?
The Swampby Mark Silva The morning after President Barack Obama's first big speech to Congress, people seem to be talking as much about the first big national appearance of Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, he of the state where they used to......Tags: Landforms, Regional Authority, NBC (tv network), Washington, DC, Political Systems
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Obama should mimic Lincoln on bonuses
The Swampby Frank James How does a president stop a nation from cutting off its nose to spite its face? That is the challenge now facing President Barack Obama as he tries to keep the populist rage against Wall Street, in......Tags: Arson, Heads of State, Crime, Law and Justice, Horace Greeley, Politics
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Time 100: World's most influential
The Swampby Mark Silva Sure, President Barack Obama made the list. But so did Michelle Obama. And Bernie Madoff, the billionaire king of Ponzi. Rush Limbaugh, too, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and... "the founders of Twitter.'' Sarah Palin's on the list.......Tags: Corporate Officers, Boris Johnson, NBC (tv network), Jamie Dimon, Werner Herzog
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Obama's to-do list: First lady has one
The Swampby Mark Silva The president and first lady, treading a delicate line between political and home life, go to great lengths to remind people that, after all, they're just people, too. But, with a first lady attempting to play the......Tags: Winston Churchill, Loans, Celebrity Parents, Football, Arts and Culture
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Obama to grads: 'Body of work' ahead
The Swampby Mark Silva President Barack Obama addressed squarely, and with a measure of humor, tonight the very words that a public university had used this year in refusing to confer an honorary degree upon a president, a graduate of Harvard......Tags: Winston Churchill, Walter Cronkite, Football, Defense, Arts and Culture
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Obama's wreaths: Afro-Amer., Confed.
The Swampby Mark Silva Today, there were wreaths to go around. Several dozen professors had called upon the first African-American president to forgo a Memorial Day tradition of laying a wreath at a monument to Confederate soldiers at Arlington National Cemetery,....Tags: Travel, Death, Tourism and Leisure, Defense, Arts and Culture
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Senate's slavery apology: 'Another step'
The Swampby Mark Silva The Senate today apologized for slavery. A little late, some may say. But it is a historic gesture, nonetheless, at a time when a nation that once condoned the enslavement of workers and sanctioned racial discrimination for......Tags: Racism, Tom Harkin, National or Ethnic Minorities, Minority Groups, Politics
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