Index - Obama Presidency Oral History
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- Address to Congress on economic conditions and the importance of healthcare reform
- Administration responds to Russian election interference
- Afghanistan election leads to unity government
- African Growth and Opportunity Act extended
- Alan Gross arrested in Cuba
- American Clean Energy and Security Act passes the House
- American Recovery and Reinvestment Act signed
- American Taxpayer Relief Act signed
- Antonin Scalia dies
- Assad uses chemical weapons attack against citizens in Ghouta
- Associated Press protests DOJ actions to obtain phone records
- Attack on US facilities in Benghazi, Libya
- Attempted Times Square car bombing
- Aung San Suu Kyi appointed State Counsellor of Myanmar after general elections
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- "Brexit" Referendum
- Bears Ears National Monument designated
- Biden announces support for marriage equality
- Bombing at the Boston Marathon
- Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act passes Senate
- Bowe Berdgdahl released in Taliban prisoner swap
- Budget Control Act sequestration takes effect
- Budget Control Act signed
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- CNBC's Rick Santelli calls for a 21st century Tea Party movement
- Chelsea Manning convicted of Espionage Act violations
- Chinese President Hu Jintao state visit
- Chinese President Xi Jinping state visit in Washington
- Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng escapes house arrest and relocates to the United States
- Clapper secret mission to North Korea
- Clean Power Plan released
- Clemency Initiative launched
- Climate Action Plan released
- Clinton and Lavrov kick off Russia “Reset”
- Clips of Reverend Jeremiah Wright's sermons are broadcast
- Cobell v. Salazar settlement package signed
- Colombian peace agreement ratified by Colombian congress.
- Colombian peace agreement signed
- Crackdown on protesters in Bahrain
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- DHS releases report on rightwing extremism
- DOJ defends DOMA in court
- Dear colleague letter on transgender student protections issued
- Deepwater Horizon oil spill
- Defense Secretary Carter announces nuclear modernization plans
- Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act signed
- Donald Trump wins presidential election
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- EU-Turkey Migration Agreement
- Ebola virus epidemic in West Africa
- Economic team briefed on stimulus proposals
- Egyptian Revolution leads to Hosni Mubarak's ouster
- Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi overthrown in coup
- Elena Kagan confirmed as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court by US Senate
- Emanuel AME Church shooting in Charleston, South Carolina
- Emergency Economic Stabilization Act signed
- Employment Non-Discrimination Act passes Senate
- Eric Cantor defeated in Republican primary in Virginia
- Eric Garner killed by NYPD officer
- Every Student Succeeds Act signed
- Extension of support to GM and Chrysler
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- Fair Sentencing Act signed
- Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act signed
- Farm Bill signed
- Federal government shutdown
- Feed the Future global food security initiative launched with G8 partners
- First Lady Michelle Obama launches Reach Higher
- First Lady Michelle Obama travels to China
- First Lady breaks ground on new White House vegetable garden
- First Lady comments publicly on Boko Haram schoolgirls kidnapping
- First State of the Union Address
- First US-Africa Leaders Summit held in Washington
- First use of #BlackLivesMatter
- Fiscal cliff crisis
- Flag-raising ceremony at U.S. embassy in Havana
- Food Safety Modernization Act signed
- Fukushima nuclear disaster
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- G20 summit on global financial crisis in London
- Gen. Stan McChrystal appointed commander of International Security Assistance Force-Afghanistan
- Global Health Security Agenda announced
- Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act becomes law
- Global U.S. Strategy for Gender-based Violence released
- Guantanamo Bay closure ordered
- Gun control legislation fails in the Senate
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- H1N1 declared national emergency
- HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan announces support for marriage equality
- Hadiya Pendleton murdered in Chicago, Illinois at park after school
- HealthCare.gov launched
- Healthcare reform conference meetings with Democratic congressional leaders
- Healthcare summit at the Blair House
- Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act signed
- Hijacking of the Maersk Alabama off the Somali coast
- Hillary Clinton calls for Middle East reforms in Doha speech
- Hillary Clinton travels through Asia on her first trip as Secretary of State
- Hillary Clinton wins the New Hampshire primary
- Holder announces DOJ will no longer defend DOMA
- Honduran President Manuel Zelaya arrested by Honduran soldiers and forced into exile
- Houthi rebels take Yemeni capital
- Hurricane Sandy makes landfall
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- IMF and European Central Bank offer bailouts amid debt crisis fears
- Inauguration of annual Tribal Nations Conferences
- Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh state visit
- Iran Nuclear Deal comes into effect
- Iranian Green Movement
- Iraqi parliamentary elections lead to delayed government formation
- Israel announces partial settlement freeze in West Bank
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- Major earthquake in Haiti
- Malaysia Airlines flight shot down over Eastern Ukraine
- Maliki steps down as Iraqi Prime Minister
- Mass arrest of protestors at Standing Rock
- Mass shooting at Dallas protest over killings of Philando Castile and Alton Sterling
- Mass shooting at Fort Hood, Texas
- Mass shooting at Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida
- Mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut
- Mass shooting at Sikh gurdwara in Oak Creek, Wisconsin
- Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act signed
- Members of Pussy Riot sentenced
- Memo to support LGBT people around the world released
- Merrick Garland nominated to Supreme Court
- Michelle Obama announces Let's Move! initiative
- Michelle Obama visits Sesame Street
- Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act signed
- Migration restrictions on HIV-positive travelers lifted
- Mohamed Bouazizi self-immolates in Tunisia
- Mohamed Morsi wins Egyptian Presidential election
- My Brother's Keeper initiative launched
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- NATO-led intervention in Libya begins
- National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform created
- Netanyahu speech to joint session of Congress criticizing Iran nuclear negotiations
- New START nuclear arms reduction treaty ratified by US Senate
- New York City fast food workers walk out, beginning a Fight for
- Nicolás Maduro elected president of Venezuela in disputed election
- North Korean leader dies
- North Korean nuclear test leads to sanctions
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- Obama "New Chapter" speech on Middle East
- Obama Iraq withdrawal speech at Camp Lejeune
- Obama accepts his renomination for the presidency
- Obama accepts the Democratic Party's nomination for the presidency
- Obama and Clinton visit Myanmar amidst democratic opening
- Obama and Hillary Clinton campaign together
- Obama and Modi joint statement on shared climate goals
- Obama and South Korean President Lee Myung-Bak celebrate passage of U.S.-Korea Free Trade Agreement
- Obama announced Joe Biden as his running mate
- Obama announces U.S.-Cuban prisoner swap freeing Alan Gross, and normalization of U.S.-Cuban relations.
- Obama announces beginning of U.S. drawdown in Afghanistan
- Obama appears on the WTF with Marc Maron podcast
- Obama appears on the web series Between Two Ferns
- Obama attends the 5th Summit of the Americas in Trinidad and Tobago
- Obama attends the 7th Summit of the Americas in Panama City, Panama
- Obama authorizes release of torture memos
- Obama bans discrimination in federal contracting
- Obama debates Republican presidential nominee John McCain
- Obama debates Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney
- Obama defeated in Democratic primary for House of Representatives race
- Obama defends Iran negotiations in speech to Adas Israel congregation
- Obama delivers major address on race
- Obama delivers major speeches in Africa
- Obama delivers speech at the DNC
- Obama delivers speech in Selma, Alabama
- Obama delivers speech on new U.S. strategy in Afghanistan and Pakistan
- Obama directs federal agencies to consult with Federal Tribes
- Obama discusses U.S. drawdown in Afghanistan
- Obama elected to the US Senate
- Obama establishes gun violence task force
- Obama extends hospital visitation rights to same-sex couples
- Obama gives major speech on national security at the National Archives
- Obama halts withdrawal of U.S. forces from Afghanistan
- Obama issues Presidential Study Directive on preventing mass atrocities
- Obama issues memo to limit use of solitary confinement in federal prisons
- Obama launches his presidential campaign
- Obama launches the Open Government Initiative
- Obama participates in White House meeting on the financial crisis
- Obama raises the minimum wage for federal contractors
- Obama reauthorizes America COMPETES Act
- Obama releases video message for Persian New Year
- Obama relieves Gen. Stanley McChrystal of command
- Obama repeals ban on stem cell research
- Obama seeks congressional authorization for Syrian chemical weapons response
- Obama sends 17,000 troops to Afghanistan
- Obama signs Native American education executive order
- Obama signs executive order to limit police militarization
- Obama signs gun violence prevention executive orders
- Obama speaks at Berlin's Brandenburg Gate
- Obama speaks at Nelson Mandela's funeral
- Obama speaks to Australian parliament
- Obama visits Central Valley, CA farm amid historic drought
- Obama visits Israel and the Palestinian territories
- Obama visits Moscow for bilateral summit
- Obama visits Vietnam and Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park
- Obama visits West Virginia amid opioid epidemic
- Obama visits federal prison
- Obama welcomes young African leaders to the White House
- Obama wins Democratic primary for US Senate race
- Obama wins the Iowa caucuses
- Obama wins the South Carolina primary
- Occupy Wall Street takes over New York's Zuccotti Park
- On a state visit to Brazil, Obama meets with newly elected Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff
- Osama Bin Laden is killed
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- Paris terror attacks
- Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act signed
- Planned drawdown of US forces in Afghanistan announced
- Popular referendum fails to ratify Colombian peace agreement
- Power Africa initiative launched
- President Obama accepts Nobel Peace Prize
- President Obama and Vice President Biden host beer summit at the White House
- President Obama announces his candidacy for re-election
- President Obama announces support for marriage equality
- President Obama calls on lawmakers to pass American Jobs Act
- President Obama elected
- President Obama inaugurated
- President Obama makes the first of several visits to Asia
- President Obama re-elected
- President Obama sets Syrian red line on chemical weapons
- President Obama travels to Alaska
- President Obama visits Myanmar
- President and First Lady launch Let Girls Learn
- Presidential Memorandum on International LGBT Rights
- Protection for parents of US citizens and permanent residents announced
- Protests against austerity measures proliferate in Europe
- Putin elected President of Russia
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- Representative Giffords survives assassination attempt in Tucson, Arizona
- Republican congressman interrupts healthcare reform speech with 'You lie!''
- Review of plans for Iraq wirtthdrawal
- Richard Holbrooke dies
- Right-wing blog posts edited clips of Shirley Sherrod speech
- Rohingya crisis in Myanmar
- Russia begins airstrikes in Syria
- Russian Duma elections spark criticisms and protests
- Russian President Medvedev visits US
- Russian annexation of Crimea begins
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- SCOTUS extends marriage equality to same-sex couples
- SCOTUS prohibits restrictions on political spending by corporations
- SCOTUS rules DOMA section 3 unconstitutional
- Scarborough Shoal standoff
- Scott Brown defeats Martha Coakley in Massachusetts special election
- Secret Iranian nuclear facility revealed
- Secretary Clinton visits Myanmar and meets with Aung San Suu Kyi
- Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act ruled unconstitutional
- Senate triggers nuclear option, eliminating filibusters on judicial and executive appointments
- Senator Arlen Specter joins Democratic Party
- Ship carrying Syrian migrants rescued off Italian coast
- Shirt-sleeves summit
- Smart on Crime initiative launched
- Snowden leaks hit The Guardian
- Solar energy company Solyndra files for bankruptcy
- Sonia Sotomayor Confirmed as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court by US Senate
- South Sudan independence day
- Speech on energy security and offshore drilling
- Speech on inequality
- Speech on nuclear nonproliferation in Prague
- Speech to the Ghanaian Parliament in Accra
- Speech to the Muslim world in Cairo
- Super Tuesday primaries in 23 states
- Supreme Court Blocks DAPA Program
- Supreme Court Blocks EPA regulation of power plant emissions
- Supreme Court grants religious exemptions in healthcare coverage
- Supreme Court rules that right to marry extends to same-sex couples
- Supreme Court upholds Affordable Care Act
- Supreme Court upholds tax provisions of the Affordable Care Act
- Supreme Court weakens Voting Rights Act in Shelby County v. Holder ruling
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- Task Force on 21st Century Policing established
- Task Force on Childhood Obesity created
- Tax Relief Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization and Job Creation Act signed
- Terrorist attack in San Bernardino, California
- Trans-Pacific Partnership signed
- Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) negotiations begin
- Trayvon Martin killed in Sanford, Florida
- Treasury releases white paper on financial reform and regulation
- Tribal Law and Order Act signed
- Troop surge in Afghanistan announced during West Point speech
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- U.S. and Afghanistan sign Enduring Partnership Agreement
- U.S. and Philippines sign Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement
- U.S. combat mission in Iraq officially ends
- U.S. lifts sanctions against Myanmar government
- U.S.-Cuban secret negotiations
- U.S.-Israeli military assistance agreement
- U.S.-North Korea "Leap Day Deal" Announced
- UN Climate Conference in Copenhagen
- UN Climate Conference in Paris
- UN and US Sanctions on Iran
- US Senate passes Don't Ask, Don't Tell Repeal and rejects DREAM Act
- US-China climate change announcement
- USAID announces closure of offices in Ecuador
- Umbrella Movement protests in Hong Kong
- Underwear bomber attempt aboard Northwest Airlines Flight 253
- United Nations Security Council adopts Iran Nuclear Deal
- United States becomes member of United Nations Human Rights Council
- United States offers security aid to Ukraine
- United States signs the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
- Unrest in Baltimore following Freddie Gray's death
- Unrest in Ferguson, Missouri
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- Washington hosts first Nuclear Security Summit
- White House Council on Native American Affairs created
- White House Rural Council created
- White House engages in Grand Bargain fiscal negotiations with congressional Republicans
- White House launches Police Data Initiative
- White House launches data.gov
- White House meeting with Black Lives Matter activists
- White House releases President Obama's long form birth certificate
- White House releases strategy toward sub-Saharan Africa
- White House urges Congress to supply emergency funding for border crisis
- WikiLeaks begins publishing leaked US diplomatic cables
- Withdrawal of US troops in Iraq announced
- World Expo 2010 Shanghai
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