Images from Obama's first year
President Barack Obama delivers a health care address to a joint session of Congress at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., Sept. 9, 2009.
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President Barack Obama looks at the vista before him during a tour of the Grand Canyon, August 16, 2009.
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President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle, pose with Britain's Queen Elizabeth II during an audience at Buckingham Palace in London, Wednesday April 1, 2009.
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President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama attend the "Christmas in Washington" taping at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C., Dec. 13, 2009.
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President Barack Obama joins Fox Sports announcers Joe Buck, left, and Tim McCarver, right, in the broadcast booth at the MLB All-Star Game in St. Louis, July 14, 2009.
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With a portrait of George Washington at right, President Barack Obama makes comments on higher education in the Diplomatic Reception Room of the White House in Washington, Friday, April 24, 2009.
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President Barack Obama and former First Lady Nancy Reagan walk side-by-side through Center Hall in the White House, June 2, 2009. To the left of Mrs. Reagan hangs her official White House portrait as First Lady.
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Crowds take part in the inauguration of President-elect Barack Obama along the National Mall during the swearing-in ceremony Tuesday, Jan, 20, 2009, in Washington.
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President Barack President Barack Obama participates in a noodle making demonstration with Chinese President Hu Jintao, left, while attending a dinner at the Diaoyutai State Guest House in Beijing, China, Nov. 16, 2009.
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The casket of Senator Edward Kennedy sits during the Roman Catholic Funeral Mass for Sen. Edward Kennedy at Our Lady of Perpetual Hope Basilica in Boston, Saturday, Aug., 29, 2009.
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President Barack Obama stands with Ben Bernanke before making a statement on his reappointment as chairman of the Federal Reserve during the President's vacation on Martha's Vineyard, Aug. 25, 2009.
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President Barack Obama, Canada's Prime Minister Stephen Harper, left, and and Mexico's President Felipe Calderon, center, sit down for a working dinner at theNorth American Leaders' Summit in Guadalajara, Mexico, August 10, 2009.
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President Barack Obama, center, speaks as former Presidents Bill Clinton, left, and George W. Bush, right, listen in the Rose Garden at the White House in Washington Saturday, Jan. 16, 2010.
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President Barack Obama talks with Mable Harvey, 102 from Washington, DC., after a conversation with a small group of African American seniors and their grandchildren on the legacy of the civil rights movement in the White House.
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President Barack Obama serves lunch to people at So That Others Might Eat, a social services organization, in Washington Monday, Jan. 18, 2010.
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President Barack Obama talks with President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan during a phone call from the Oval Office, Nov. 2, 2009.
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President Barack Obama speaks at a town hall meeting in a Kroger's Supermarket in Bristol, Va. on July 29, 2009.
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President Barack Obama gives a fist-bump to Personal Aide Reggie Love in the Oval Office of the White House. Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel is seen on the left, June 16, 2009.
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This photo released by the White House Nov. 27, 2009, shows President Barack Obama greeting Michaele and Tareq Salahi, right, at a State Dinner hosted by Obama for Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at the White House.
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President Barack Obama plays basketball with White House staffers while on vacation on Martha's Vineyard, Aug. 26, 2009.
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President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama console Paul and Janet Monti, parents of Army Sgt. 1st. Class Jared C. Monti in the Blue Room following a Medal of Honor ceremony in the East Room of the White House on Sept. 17, 2009.
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Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner looks towards President Barack Obama as they meet in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 29, 2009.
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President Barack Obama meets with Army Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the Commander of U.S. Forces in Afghanistan, aboard Air Force One in Copenhagen, Denmark on Oct. 2, 2009.
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President Barack Obama speaks in the rain at the Pentagon, Friday, Sept. 11, 2009, marking the eighth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks
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President Barack Obama greets Chinese Ministers in the Roosevelt Room of the White House after the first U.S.-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue.
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President Barack Obama lifts the Stanley Cup trophy during the East Room ceremony for the 2009 Stanley Cup NHL champion Pittsburgh Penquins, Sept. 10, 2009.
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President Barack Obama hugs Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient actor Sidney Poitier during the award ceremony in the East Room of the White House, August 12, 2009.
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President Barack Obama arrives for the G-8 summit in L'Aquila, Italy, July 8, 2009.
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President Barack Obama, Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Sergeant James Crowley meet in the Rose Garden of the White House, July 30, 2009.
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Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient Joseph Medicine Crow shows a drum to President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama during a reception for recipients and their families in the Blue Room of the White House.
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President Barack Obama meets with Russian President Medvedev in the Kremlin, Moscow Russia, July 6, 2009.
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President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama wave from a balcony at the Grand Hotel as they greet the Torch Parade in Oslo, Norway, Dec. 10, 2009.
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President Barack Obama, right, waves to the crowd after throwing out the first pitch to St. Louis Cardinals first baseman Albert Pujols before the MLB All-Star baseball game in St. Louis, Tuesday, July 14, 2009.
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President Barack Obama meets with WNBA Champions, the Detroit Shock on Monday, July 27, 2009.
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President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, walk from the West Wing to the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, Dec. 1, 2009.
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President Barack Obama speaks to the crowd at the departure ceremony at Accra airport in Ghana, July 11, 2009.
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President Barack Obama talks with baseball great Willie Mays aboard Air Force One en route to the MLB All-Star Game in St. Louis, July 14, 2009.
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President Barack Obama speaks at a memorial services at Fort Hood, Texas, Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2009. In the foreground is a photo of Sgt. Amy S. Krueger.
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President Barack Obama smiles while watching the entertainment at the State Dinner for Prime Minister Manmohan Singh of India and his wife, Mrs. Gursharan Kaur, held in a tent on the South Lawn of the White House, Nov. 24, 2009.
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President Barack Obama reacts to a photograph of himself displayed by Late Show host David Letterman during their interview at CBS Studios in New York, N.Y. on Sept. 21, 2009.
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President Barack Obama presents cupcakes with a candle to Hearst White House columnist Helen Thomas in honor of her birthday in the James Brady Briefing Room, August 4, 2009.
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President Barack Obama gestures as he speaks at the 'Let Freedom Ring' concert at the Kennedy Center in Washington, Monday, Jan. 18, 2010.
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President Barack Obama waves at a campaign stop with Democratic senate candidate, Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley at Northeastern University in Boston, Sunday, Jan. 17, 2010.
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In this April 5, 2009, file photo, President Barack Obama, right, delivers a public speech to thousands of people on Hradcany Square in Prague, Czech Republic.
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President Barack Obama reads as Marine One lifts off from the South Lawn of the White House en route to Andrews Air Force Base, Dec. 1, 2009.
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President Barack Obama reacts after a putt at Mid-Pacific County Club in Kailua, Hawaii, Thursday, Dec. 31, 2009.
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President Barack Obama, left, and Buchenwald survivor Elie Wiesel, right, react at the memorial site for the 'Kleines Lager' (Little Camp) inside Buchenwald concentration camp near Weimar, Germany, Friday, June 5, 2009.
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President Barack Obama addresses employees at the Caterpillar plant in East Peoria, Ill., Thursday, Feb. 12, 2009.
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The January 26 issue of Newsweek looks at the changing demographics, culture and politics of the America that Barack Obama inherits.
President Barack Obama looks towards the First Lady and guests seated in the gallery of the House Chamber at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., Sept. 9, 2009.
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President Barack Obama ducks his head to get through an entranceway on a tour of the Pyramids and Sphinx in Egypt, June 4, 2009. At center-right is the hieroglyphic that the President comment on saying it looked like him.
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President Barack Obama tours the Forbidden City in Beijing, China, Nov. 17, 2009.
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President Barack Obama signs the $787 billion economic stimulus bill at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science in Denver on Tuesday, Feb. 17, 2009.
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President Barack Obama speaks in the Capitol Rotunda on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Feb. 12, 2009, during the Congressional ceremony celebrating Abraham Lincoln's 200th birthday.
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President Barack Obama, left, appears on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno in Burbank, Calif. Thursday, March 19, 2009.
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President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama watch the fireworks over the National Mall from White House on July 4, 2009.
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President Barack Obama talks on the phone in the Oval Office in Washington, Friday, Oct. 9, 2009, before speaking about winning the Nobel Peace Prize in the Rose Garden.
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Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton confers with President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama prior to a reception in the White House for Prime Minister Manmohan Singh of India and his wife, Mrs Gursharan Kaur, Nov. 24, 2009.
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President Barack Obama runs down the East Colonnade with the family dog "Bo."
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President Barack Obama has a briefing in the Oval Office prior to health care meeting with Senate democrats, June 2, 2009.
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President Barack Obama holds a briefing on Afghanistan with the Joint Chiefs of Staff in the Situation Room at the White House on Oct. 30, 2009.
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President Barrack Obama meets in the Oval Office with members of the Senate Finance Committee August 6, 2009.
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President Barack Obama departs Marine One after landing at Andrews Air Force Base for a trip to Warren, Michigan and St. Louis, Mo. on July 14, 2009.
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Jimmie Johnson, the 2008 Sprint Cup Champion, fires up his #48 Chevy while showing the car to President Barack Obama at a NASCAR ceremony on the South Lawn of the White House, Aug. 19, 2009.
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President Barack Obama addresses the 64th session of the United Nations General Assembly, Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2009.
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President Barack Obama signs a series of executive orders, including one closing of the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Thursday, Jan. 22, 2009, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington.
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President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama attend the funeral Mass for Jean Biden, mother of Vice President Joe Biden, Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2010, at the Immaculate Heart of Mary Catholic Church in Wilmington, Del.
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President Barack Obama looks at the Nobel Prize medal during the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony in Raadhuset Main Hall at Oslo City Hall In Oslo, Norway, Dec. 10, 2009.
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President Barack Obama talks with Justice Sotomayor prior to her Investiture Ceremony at the Supreme Court September 8, 2009.
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President Barack Obama relaxes on a sofa in the Oval Office with wife Michelle and daughters Malia and Sasha, Feb. 2, 2009.
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President Barack Obama talks to Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in the Oval Office, Oct. 10, 2009.
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An ever-present bowl of apples sits on a table in the Oval Office while President Barack Obama calls Creigh Deeds, winner of the Virginia Democratic Gubernatorial Primary, June 10, 2009.
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President Barack Obama is applauded by members of Congress, and others, after signing an Executive Order on stem cells and a Presidential Memorandum on scientific integrity, Monday, March 9, 2009, in the White House.
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President Barack Obama, accompanied by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, makes a statement about the earthquake in Haiti, Thursday, Jan. 14, 2010, at the White House in Washington.
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U.S. President Barack Obama speaks during the Chicago 2016 bid presentation at the 121st International Olympic Committee session at the Bella Center in Copenhagen, Friday, Oct. 2, 2009.
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Barack Obama, left, takes the oath of office from Chief Justice John Roberts, not seen, as his wife Michelle, holds the Lincoln Bible and daughters Sasha, right and Malia, watch at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2009.
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President Barack Obama delivers his inaugural address at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2009.
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President Barack Obama talks with Senior Advisor David Alexrod and Sen. Dick Durbin, (D-Ill.), on Air Force One en route to Portsmouth, N.H. for a town hall meeting about health care reform August 11, 2009.
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Students hold out their hands to greet President Barack Obama during his visit to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Charter School in New Orleans, La., Oct. 15, 2009.
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