Community Service Day Lunch
On Martin Luther King Day, as part of a “National Day of Service,” President-Elect Obama and Michelle Obama had lunch with community service volunteers who were writing letters to U.S. troop…
900 viewsOn Martin Luther King Day, as part of a “National Day of Service,” President-Elect Obama and Michelle Obama had lunch with community service volunteers who were writing letters to U.S. troop…
900 viewsPresident-Elect Barack Obama spoke at a pre-inaugural celebration at the Lincoln Memorial. He spoke about the significance or the monuments on the national mall, the nation at a crossroads i…
5,349 viewsPresident-Elect Barack Obama and Vice President-Elect Joe Biden laid a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington Cemetery as part of their pre-inaugural activities in Washington…
1,974 viewsVideo of President-elect Barack Obama and his family arriving Union Station in Washington, DC was shown.
963 viewsPresident-Elect Obama spoke on the final leg of a whistle-stop inaugural train journey to Washington, D.C. In his remarks at a rally at War Memorial Plaza in Baltimore, Maryland, he spoke ab…
1,580 viewsPresident-Elect Obama passed through Edgewood, Maryland, on his way to Baltimore as part of his day-long train tour from Philadelphia to Washington, D.C.
130 viewsPresident-Elect Obama held a whistle-stop rally in Tubman Garrett Riverfront Park next to the Wilmington Station, where he stopped during his inaugural rail journey to be joined by Vice Pres…
1,805 viewsPresident-Elect Obama held a rally at the 30th Street Station in Philadelphia before boarding a train headed toward Washington, D.C., in the first stage of his inaugural rail journey. In his…
1,267 viewsInvited passengers boarded President-Elect Obama’s special train for a whistle-stop journey to Washington, DC from Philadelphia, PA.
203 viewsPresident-Elect Obama, Vice President-Elect Biden, and Senator Lindsey Graham spoke to the press before a meeting at the Obama transition office where Senators Biden and Graham would brief P…
468 viewsPresident-Elect Barack Obama held the traditional pre-inaugural meeting with Mexican President Felipe Calderón at the Mexican Cultural Institute.
610 viewsPresident-Elect Barack Obama talked about the economy at the Center for the Arts of George Mason University. He said that only government could address the current economic crisis and made t…
2,067 viewsPresident-Elect Obama delivered the weekly Democratic Party address. He spoke about recent unemployment statistics.
167 viewsPresident-Elect Barack Obama named Leon Panetta as his nominee to head the Central Intelligence Agency and retired Admiral Dennis Blair as his nominee to head the Office of the Director of N…
387 viewsPresident-Elect Obamaspoke to reporters and announced that he would create a position of Government Performance Officer and would appoint Nancy Killefer to the post in his administration. Sh…
542 viewsPresident-Elect Barack Obama spoke to the press after meeting with his team of economic advisers. Topics included the budget deficit and the budget process. In his remarks he cautioned that …
328 viewsPresident-Elect Obama spoke with the press about his economic stimulus plan and the state of the U.S. economy before a bipartisan, bicameral meeting with members of Congress.
277 viewsPresident-Elect Obama spoke to the press about his proposed economic stimulus plan following a meeting with his economic advisers. The plan included significant spending provisions, as well …
258 viewsSpeaker Nancy Pelosi and President-Elect Barack Obama spoke to the press before their meeting about an economic stiumuls package.
542 viewsPresident-Elect Barack Obama delivered the weekly Democratic address in an online video. He talked about the economy and urged Congress to pass a comprehensive spending bill to create jobs.
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