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.

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.

" 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

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.

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.

President Barack Obama, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta, and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Mike Mullen, sent that certification to Congress on July 22, 2011, which set the end of DADT for September 20, 2011.

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 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.

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.

`` I may possibly be a greater risk than is the normal person of my age '', the President had said on February 29th of the election year, ignoring the fact that no one of his age had ever lived out another term.

President Kennedy was right when he said, `` We shall never negotiate out of fear and we never shall fear to negotiate ''.

) He smiled, and said a word or two to the interpreter, who turned to me, `` The President wonders where you are going after you leave Taipei ''??

Mickie had a pleasant glow as he said, `` You see, both of them, I mean the President and Jeff Lawrence, are romantics.

The Vice President said, `` If you hear of any names that would fix me cheap in return for advertising they decorated the Vice President's home, let me know.

The Vice President said with a slight bluster, `` There isn't anyone who loves the President more than I do.

As the President has said, `` only when our arms are sufficient beyond doubt can we be certain that they will never be employed ''.

Salinger said the work President Kennedy, advisers, and members of his staff were doing on the address involved composition and wording, rather than last minute decisions on administration plans to meet the latest Berlin crisis precipitated by Russia's demands and proposals for the city.

The President said the nation's 92 medical and 47 dental schools cannot now handle the student load needed to meet the rising need for health care.

In the child health field, the President said he will recommend later an increase in funds for programs under the children's bureau.

The President said he will ask Congress to increase grants to states for vocational rehabilitation.

The President said he will also propose increasing, by an unspecified amount, the 540 million dollars in the 1961-62 budget for direct government research in medicine.

The President said his proposals combine the `` indispensable elements in a sound health program -- people, knowledge, services, facilities, and the means to pay for them ''.

Until the Cuban fiasco and the Communist military victories in Laos, almost any observer would have said that President Kennedy had blended a program that respected, generally, the opinions voiced both by Mr. Nixon and the professors.

Noting that President Kennedy has handed the Defense Department the major responsibility for the nation's civil defense program, Mr. Hawksley said the federal government would pay half the salary of a full-time local director.

-- At a gay party in the Kremlin for President Sukarno of Indonesia, Premier Khrushchev pulled out his pockets and said, beaming: `` Look, he took everything I had ''!!

The petitions will be presented in open court to President Judge William F. Dannehower, Davenport said.

`` My approval of this bill should not be viewed as establishing a precedent for the enactment of similar legislation for other mineral industries '', the President said.

President Kennedy's invitation to the Spanish-born master said, `` We feel your performance as one of the world's greatest artists would lend distinction to the entertainment of our guests ''.

She is vacationing at the Kennedy summer home in Hyannis Port, Mass., and in his welcoming remarks, the President said he was representing her.

After paying tribute to the conductor and his white-clad youthful students, President Kennedy said, `` As an American I have the greatest possible pride in the work that is being done in dozens of schools stretching across the United States -- schools where devoted teachers are studying with interested young men and women and opening up the whole wide horizon of serious music ''.

`` There is a limit to what the United States in self-respect can endure '', said the President.

The President of the United States has said: `` We will never negotiate out of fear, and we will never fear to negotiate ''.

The President said the primary goal of his actions as president ( he used the first person pronoun and explicitly refers to his " official duty ") was preserving the Union: