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Archive: March 7, 2011

Wakefield High School Arlington, Virginia 11:52 A.M. EST   PRESIDENT OBAMA:  Hey, guys!  How are you?  Good to see you.  Nice to see you.   Well, the — it is wonderful to be back at Wakefield.  Some of you remember…

Oval Office 11:10 A.M. EST PRESIDENT OBAMA:  Well, I just want to provide a hearty welcome to Prime Minister Gillard, who I had a chance to meet during the ASEAN summit and the G20 summit, and was immediately charmed, as…

President Obama joined a meeting with National Security Advisor Tom Donilon and Kyrgyzstani President Roza Otunbayeva in the White House to discuss U.S. – Kyrgyzstani relations and U.S. support for Kyrgyzstan’s democracy.   Mr. Donilon congratulated President Otunbayeva on the…

WASHINGTON – On Thursday, March 10, President Barack Obama, First Lady Michelle Obama, the Department of Education, and the Department of Health and Human Services will welcome students, parents, and teachers to the White House for a Conference on Bullying…

The President today declared a major disaster exists in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and ordered Federal aid to supplement Commonwealth and local recovery efforts in the area struck by a severe winter storm and snowstorm during the period of January…

Please find attached a fact sheet on new actions related to Guantanamo and detainee policy, as well as the text of the executive order signed by the President today. Statement by President Barack Obama: “From the beginning of my Administration,…

In a speech nearly two years ago at the National Archives, the President advanced a four-part approach to closing the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, keeping our country safe, and upholding the law: (1) to bring detainees to justice in…

James S. Brady Press Briefing Room     CORRECTED:      Q    Jay, I’d like to see if I could establish as fact something we all take for granted.  The President, Friday evening in Miami, said “We’re here because we want to…

James S. Brady Press Briefing Room 12:45 P.M. EST     MR. CARNEY:  Good afternoon, everyone.  I am going to go right into questions.  I don’t have any announcements at the top. So, Mr. Feller.     Q    I don’t know what…

EXECUTIVE ORDER EXTENDING PROVISIONS OF THE INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS IMMUNITIES ACT TO THE OFFICE OF THE HIGH REPRESENTATIVE IN BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA AND THE INTERNATIONAL CIVILIAN OFFICE IN KOSOVO By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and…