His successor President Barack Obama has expressed his desire to recognize the Armenian Genocide during the electoral campaigns, but after being elected, has not used the word genocide in his first annual April 24 speech in 2009.

In her opinion, President Barack Obama, who is the son of a Kenyan immigrant, although technically African-American, is not black.

* 1961 – Barack Obama, American politician, 44th President of the United States, Nobel Prize laureate

Clinton with President Barack Obama and Senior Advisor Valerie Jarrett in July 2010

In response to the 2010 Haiti earthquake, U. S. President Barack Obama announced that Clinton and George W. Bush would coordinate efforts to raise funds for Haiti's recovery.

" Is Barack Obama the first black President of the United States?

Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper ( right ) and President of the United States | U. S. President Barack Obama ( left ) meet in Ottawa in February 2009

Other more recent political figures educated at Columbia include U. S President Barack Obama, Associate Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court Ruth Bader Ginsburg, former U. S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, former chairman of the U. S. Federal Reserve Bank Alan Greenspan, U. S. Attorney General Eric Holder, and U. S. Solicitor General Donald Verrilli Jr .. Dwight D. Eisenhower served as the thirteenth president of Columbia University from 1948 to 1953.

Image: Official portrait of Barack Obama. jpg | Barack Obama, President of the United States and Nobel Laureate, Class of 1983, Columbia College

On July 10, 2011, an F-15 Intercepted another small two-seat passenger plane flying near Camp David where President Barack Obama was in residence, totalling the number of interceptions over the July 9 weekend at 3 planes.

Plaintiffs introduced statements by President Barack Obama, from prepared remarks, that DADT " doesn't contribute to our national security ", " weakens our national security ", and that reversal is " essential for our national security ".

In his 2008 election campaign, President Barack Obama advocated a full repeal of the laws barring homosexuals from serving in the military.

* 2010 – The repeal of the Don't Ask Don't Tell policy, the 17-year-old policy banning on homosexuals serving openly in the United States military, is signed into law by President Barack Obama.

" Consistent with this tradition, the 2007 version of the current 15th edition was " dedicated by permission to the current President of the United States of America, George W. Bush, and Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II ," while the 2010 version of the current 15th edition is " dedicated by permission to Barack Obama, President of the United States of America, and Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.

The current First Lady is Michelle Obama, wife of President Barack Obama.

President Barack Obama has stated that he intends to close down the detention camp and is planning on bringing detainees to the United States to stand trial by the end of his first term in office.

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act ( Public Law 111-148 ) was signed into law by President Barack Obama on March 23, 2010.

After U. S. President Barack Obama announced the deployment of another 30, 000 soldiers in 2010 for a period of two years, Der Spiegel published images of the US soldiers who killed unarmed Afghan civilians.

During periods of particularly high demand for ammunition, such as after the November 2008 election of President Barack Obama, or after the 1994 Assault Weapons Ban in that country, factory ammunition can become considerably more expensive or even unavailable in stores.

However on February 1, 2010, President Barack Obama proposed cancelling the program in Fiscal Year 2011.

On July 21, 2010, President Barack Obama signed into law the Nonadmitted and Reinsurance Reform Act of 2010 (" NRRA "), which took effect on July 21, 2011 and was part of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act.

Commentators have questioned whether Obama, who was elected the first black President of the United States, is black enough, as his mother was white American, and his father was a black Kenyan immigrant.

Camp David was also chosen by President Obama to host the 2012 G8 Summit.

President Obama also hosted Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev at Camp David.

On July 2, 2011, an F-15E intercepted a small two-seat passenger plane flying near Camp David, where President Obama was in residence.

In May 2009, when a committee of military law experts at the Palm Center, an anti-DADT research institute, concluded that the President could issue an Executive Order to suspend homosexual conduct discharges, Obama rejected that option and said he wanted Congress to change the law.

The Vice President had called and asked if he could see the Secretary at his home.

The Secretary shall make reports to the President and the Congress at the beginning of each regular session of the action taken or instituted by him under the provisions of this Act and of prospective action during the ensuing year.

The senior policy officer may be moved to think hard about a problem by any of an infinite variety of stimuli: an idea in his own head, the suggestions of a colleague, a question from the Secretary or the President, a proposal by another department, a communication from a foreign government or an American ambassador abroad, the filing of an item for the agenda of the United Nations or of any other of dozens of international bodies, a news item read at the breakfast table, a question to the President or the Secretary at a news conference, a speech by a Senator or Congressman, an article in a periodical, a resolution from a national organization, a request for assistance from some private American interests abroad, et cetera, ad infinitum.

Can the President or the Secretary act under existing authority, or will new legislation and new money be required??

The already appropriated funds within the discretion of the President and Secretary of State under the Mutual Security Act are the only immediately available source of financing this summer's pilot programs of the Peace Corps.

The Secretary, Department of Economic Affairs, or his designate, will act for the Government of India, and the President of the Export-Import Bank of Washington, or his designate, will act for the Export-Import Bank of Washington.

Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, former President of the Ford Motor Company, comes from a generation different from that of Eisenhower's own first Secretary of Defense, Charles Wilson, who had been head of General Motors.

The President has also called upon the Attorney General, the Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, and the Secretary of Labor to coordinate their efforts `` in the development of a program of federal leadership to assist states and local communities in their efforts to cope with the problem.

On the Latin American front, the President held talks with Secretary of the Treasury Douglas Dillon before sending him to Uruguay and the Inter-American Economic and Social Council ( which the President himself had originally hoped to attend ).

In, the President of the United States directed that the Secretary of the Interior should take care for the administration of civil government in American Samoa.

On April 14, 1865, President Lincoln was shot and mortally wounded by John Wilkes Booth, a Confederate sympathizer, who conspired to coordinate assassinations of others, including Johnson, Ulysses S. Grant and Secretary of State William H. Seward that same night.

Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice ( who was famously mistaken for a " recent American immigrant " by French President Nicolas Sarkozy ), said " descendants of slaves did not get much of a head start, and I think you continue to see some of the effects of that.

The treaty was signed in Moscow on May 26, 1972 by the President of the United States, Richard Nixon and the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Leonid Brezhnev ; and ratified by the US Senate on August 3, 1972.

United States Secretary of Defense | Secretary of Defense William S. Cohen | Cohen presents President Clinton the DoD Medal for Distinguished Public Service.

On 13 June 2006, President Olusegun Obasanjo of Nigeria and President Paul Biya of Cameroon resolved the dispute in talks led by UN Secretary General Kofi Annan in New York City.

Many times, corporate officers such as the CFO, COO, CIO, CTO, Secretary, or Treasurer will concurrently hold Vice President titles, commonly EVP or SVP.

CPC General Secretary and PRC President Jiang Zemin and PRC Premier Zhu Rongji, both former mayors of Shanghai, led post-Tiananmen PRC in the 1990s.