South Lawn 7:31 P.M. EDT PRESIDENT: Good evening, everybody! Welcome to the White House! Good-looking crowd. For five years, International Jazz Day’s main event has been celebrated around the world, from Istanbul, to Osaka, to Paris. So we couldn’t be…
Archive: April 29, 2016
State Dining Room 11:59 A.M. EDT MRS. OBAMA: Hey! (Applause.) How is everybody doing? You guys been hanging out at the White House? Have they been treating you well? You guys good? You guys comfortable? AUDIENCE: Yes. MRS. OBAMA:…
Michelle and I extend our best wishes to members of the Orthodox Christian community here in America and around the world as they observe Holy Friday and the Feast of the Resurrection. For Orthodox Christians, this is a time to…
The Vice President met with Prime Minister of Italy Matteo Renzi today. The Vice President thanked Prime Minister Renzi for Italy’s contributions to promoting stability in Iraq and Libya. The leaders discussed the need to improve intelligence sharing with and…
The Vice President met today with Vatican State Secretary Pietro Parolin. The leaders discussed the persecution of Christians and other religious minorities across the Middle East, with a focus on the abuses perpetrated by ISIL in Iraq and Syria. The…
Nearly 200 nursing schools and more than 50 pharmacy schools commit to prescriber training Washington, DC—Today during an event at the White House, ten individuals from across the country will be honored as “White House Champions of Change” for their…
~President Obama Establishes Federal Interagency Reentry Council~ An estimated 70 million or more Americans have some kind of criminal record. Each year, more than 600,000 individuals are released from Federal and State prisons, and millions more are released each year…
PRESS BRIEFING BY PRESS SECRETARY JOSH EARNEST James S. Brady Press Briefing Room **Please see below for a correction, marked with an asterisk. 12:52 P.M. EDT MS. JANNEY: Hi, everyone. Good afternoon. I was going to tell you…
