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.

Barack Obama and Lara during the US President's tour of Trinidad and Tobago in 2009.

At a forum at the university during the 2008 presidential election campaign, both John McCain and Barack Obama said that the university should consider reinstating ROTC on campus.

Mickey Hart ( in background, playing drums ) and Bob Weir ( playing guitar ) performing at the Mid-Atlantic Inaugural Ball during the Inauguration of Barack Obama | presidential inauguration of Barack Obama, January 20, 2009.

Abraham Lincoln, William Howard Taft and Barack Obama were accused of being atheists during election campaigns, while others to hold the office used faith as a defining aspect of their campaigns and tenure.

Herzog also lent his voice to the animated television program The Boondocks in the third season premiere episode It's a Black President, Huey Freeman in which he played himself filming a documentary about the series ' cast of characters and their actions during the 2008 election of Barack Obama.

On 30 October 2008, Nature endorsed an American presidential candidate for the first time when it supported Barack Obama during his campaign in America's 2008 presidential election.

With the election of Barack Obama and Democratic gains in both houses of Congress, Pelosi became the first speaker since Tom Foley to hold the office during single-party Democratic leadership in Washington.

Sometimes, however, the Speaker will play a big role even when they belong to the same party as the President, such as when Speaker Nancy Pelosi played a role in continuing the push for health care reform during the presidency of fellow Democrat Barack Obama ; subsequently the Republicans targeted her in the 2010 midterm election.

Air Force One arrives at the base with President Barack Obama during a 2011 visit to Tucson.

Armstrong supported Barack Obama during the 2008 presidential election.

However, during the 2008 U. S. presidential election, 51 % of the voters from Sandusky County supported Democratic candidate Barack Obama.

These were not the first presidents to come to Elko County: William McKinley visited in 1901 ; Herbert Hoover made his final campaign broadcast as president from a railroad car in Elko in 1932 ; President Roosevelt spoke in Carlin in 1938 during his whistle stop tour ; and Barack Obama visited while campaigning in 2008.

Although Barack Obama got only 38. 45 % of Hamilton County's vote during the 2008 election, it is the highest percentage a Democrat presidential candidate has been able to get for this county since Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1936 ( who himself had also lost the county ).

In February 2009, just over a month after his inauguration, President Barack Obama invited serving members of the US Senate to a " fiscal responsibility " summit at the White House, during which Senators asked the President about his fiscal policies in an event which was compared to Prime Minister's Question.

Michael Collins and his fellow Apollo 11 crew members meet with President of the United States | President Barack Obama during the 40th anniversary celebrations of their flight

Barack Obama leased a North American Airlines plane for use during his successful 2008 United States Presidential Election campaign.

This aircraft was chartered to carry Sen. Barack Obama and members of his staff and press, during his Barack Obama presidential campaign, 2008 | 2008 presidential bid.

Timothy Williams, tribal chairman for the Fort Mojave Indian Tribe, shakes hands with President Barack Obama during the 2011 Tribal Nations Conference in Washington, D. C. There were 5, 217 households out of which 29. 6 % had children under the age of 18 living with them, 59. 4 % were married couples living together, 9. 1 % had a female householder with no husband present, and 26. 2 % were non-families.

According to the Friday, August 12, 2011 online edition of the Peoria Journal Star by Deanna Bellandi of the Associated Press, President Barack Obama, who worked and lived in Chicago, Illinois, will visit Atkinson during a three-state bus tour of the Midwest focusing on jobs, the state of the economy, and the housing market in a campaign-style event.

* President Barack Obama mentioned Galesburg during his keynote address at the 2004 Democratic National Convention and near the beginning of his 2010 State of the Union Address.

* Marine Sergeant Dakota Meyer-In September 2011, he received the Medal of Honor from President Barack Obama at age 23 ; he saved numerous American and Afghan troops during a Taliban ambush and is the third living recipient of the honor ( and first living Marine ) from the Iraq and Afghan wars

US President Barack Obama welcomes Ambassador Zhang Yesui of the People ’ s Republic of China to the White House on March 29, 2010, during the credentials ceremony for newly appointed ambassadors to Washington, D. C.

A month later, McLean wound up the 20th century by performing " American Pie " at the Lincoln Memorial Gala in Washington D. C. Brooks again played " American Pie " during We Are One: The Obama Inaugural Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial on January 18, 2009.

Criticism includes several examples of cropping quotes from President Obama, Vice President Biden and Vice President Gore so they appear out of context, using image-manipulation software to edit the appearance of reporters from The New York Times and using footage from other events during a report on the November 5 Tea Party rally in Washington, D. C .; Media Matters said the intention of Fox News was to make it appear as if a larger number of protesters attended the event.

When appearing on Governor Mike Huckabee's Fox News talk show, Voight said Obama was arrogant, caused civil unrest and stood for all that this country was against during its past.

An editorial in the Washington Blade compared the scruffy, violent activism during and following the Stonewall riots to the lackluster response to failed promises given by President Obama ; for being ignored, wealthy LGBT activists reacted by promising to give less money to Democratic causes.

In September 2010, in the light of the failure to repeal the " Don ’ t Ask, Don ’ t Tell " policy ( which banned openly gay people from serving in the military ) during the Obama administration, the Libertarian Party urged gay voters to stop supporting the Democratic Party.

President Obama mentioned during his visit that he had heard stories as a child from his great uncle, whom was part of the U. S. 89th Infantry Division, the first Americans to reach a concentration camp of Ohrdruf, one of Buchenwald's sub-camps.

" In September 2007 during a speech on the Iraq war, Obama introduced Brzezinski as " one of our most outstanding thinkers ," but some pro-Israel commentators questioned his criticism of the Israel lobby in the United States.

On January 24, 2012 Secretary Vilsack was named the designated survivor by President Obama during the President's State of the Union address.

" Historian Donald described the speech as a " superb political move for an unannounced candidate, to appear in one rival's ( William H. Seward ) own state at an event sponsored by the second rival's ( Salmon P. Chase ) loyalists, while not mentioning either by name during its delivery.

The term allocutio was used by the ancient Romans for the speech made by a commander to his troops, either before a battle or during it, to animate and encourage them.

* 1956 – Former Vice President and Senator Alben Barkley dies during a speech in Virginia.

A more detailed account of how the Ashes were given to Ivo Bligh was outlined by his wife, the Countess of Darnley, in 1930 during a speech at a cricket luncheon.

On the other hand, they may not preside over Adoration or Benediction, give a speech that is a homily, or read the Gospel during a Mass or serve as instituted acolytes, a ministry which is now reserved for those preparing for ordained service ).

We possess two declamations under his name: On Sophists, directed against Isocrates and setting forth the superiority of extempore over written speeches ( a more recently discovered fragment of another speech against Isocrates is probably of later date ); Odysseus ( perhaps spurious ) in which Odysseus accuses Palamedes of treachery during the siege of Troy

* 1954 – President Dwight D. Eisenhower gives his " domino theory " speech during a news conference.

In his 1990 speech to Kenyon College graduates, Watterson revealed that during his last year he had painted Michelangelo's Creation of Adam from the Sistine Chapel on the ceiling of his dorm room:

In 1972, the winning author John Berger, known for his Marxist worldview, protested during his acceptance speech against Booker McConnell.

In 1989, the death of former general secretary Hu Yaobang helped to spark the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, during which students and others campaigned for several months, speaking out against corruption and in favour of greater political reform, including democratic rights and freedom of speech.

* CHOI-FM: The CRTC announced it would not renew the licence of the popular CHOI-FM radio station in Quebec City, after having previously sanctioned the station for failing to uphold its promise of performance and then, during the years following, receiving about 50 complaints about offensive behaviour by radio jockeys which similarly contravened CRTC rules on broadcast hate speech.

In February 2011 during one of three town-hall meetings on the ROTC ban, former Army staff sergeant Anthony Maschek, a purple heart recipient for injuries sustained during his service in Iraq, was booed and hissed at by some students during his speech promoting the idea of allowing the ROTC on campus.

Eisenhower described his position on space and the need for peace during his speech to the General Assembly of the United Nations, New York City, September 22, 1960:

In his speech during the procession, David " explicitly emphasized the opposition between people and monarchy ; Hercules was chosen, after all, to make this opposition more evident ".

The room is airless, shabby, and crowded, and although he has no idea what he is charged with, or what authorizes the process, makes a long speech denigrating the whole process, including the agents who arrested him, and during which an attendant's wife is raped.

Hay noted that during the speech Lincoln ’ s face had ‘ a ghastly color ’ and that he was ‘ sad, mournful, almost haggard.

In 2004 during the Democratic Primaries, Senator John Kerry, the eventual Democratic Nominee for President, visited George Mason University and gave a speech on the floor of the Johnson Center.

On 4 October 1943, during a secret meeting with top SS officials in the city of Poznań ( Posen ), and on 6 October 1943, in a speech to the party elite — the Gau and Reich leaders — Himmler referred explicitly to the " extermination " ( German: Ausrottung ) of the Jewish people.

The term " Hun " from this speech was later used for the Germans by British propaganda during World War I.

He was brought as a captive to Rome, where a dignified speech he made during Claudius's triumph persuaded the emperor to spare his life.

In addition to maintaining the Discovery One spacecraft systems during the interplanetary mission to Jupiter, HAL is capable of speech, speech recognition, facial recognition, natural language processing, lip reading, art appreciation, interpreting and reproducing emotional behaviours, reasoning, and playing chess.