May 11, 2012
Behind every President is the mother who raised him. In honor of Mother’s Day (which is this Sunday, May 13) our colleagues at the National Archives put together a gallery of Presidents and their moms, selected from the holdings of the 13 Presidential Libraries.
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May 9, 2012
Sergeant Sheena Adams is a member of an elite corps of female Marines, soldiers who have volunteered to join otherwise all-male patrols in Afghanistan, where they build relationships with Afghan women, a population mostly off-limits to our male troops. Sergeant Adams and her colleagues belong to the Female Engagement Team, also called FETs, and they work with women in these villages to gain their trust, and bring them better access to health care and education. ...
May 5, 2012
After signing an agreement that details our future relationship with Afghanistan, President Obama explains that we must now focus on the type of nation our troops return home to, and calls on Congress to take the money we are no longer spending at war, use half of it to pay down our debt, and use the other half to rebuild America.
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May 4, 2012
Here's a quick look at what happened this week on WhiteHouse.gov:
Correspondents' Dinner: At the annual Correspondents' Dinner, which has been held since 1920, President Obama joked about himself and the coverage he has received from the reporters in attendance. In case you missed it – or if you want to watch it again – you can watch President Obama's speech...
May 3, 2012
This week, the President traveled to Afghanistan to sign an historic Strategic Partnership Agreement, visit with our troops, and address the American people about responsibly ending the war. The President also traveled to Fort Stewart to sign an Executive Order to protect service members and their families from deceptive marketing practices, spoke at the annual White House Correspondents Dinner, welcomed the Prime Minister of Japan, and spoke at the Building and Construction...
On Tuesday, President Obama made an unannounced trip to Afghanistan to sign the Strategic Partnership Agreement with President Hamid Karzai, which provides a framework for the relationship between our two nations moving forward as U.S. forces leave the country and Afghans continue the transition to take control of their own security....
May 2, 2012
On Tuesday, President Obama landed in Kabul to sign a strategic partnership agreement with President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan that provides a framework for our relationship with the country over the coming decade. President Obama also stopped by Bagram Air Base to meet with troops -- and ...
May 1, 2012
Today, President Obama made a surprise visit to Afghanistan -- to meet with President Hamid Karzai and sign a strategic partnership agreement that will help to guide our future relationship with the country.
For more than a decade, U.S. troops have served in the region as part of the NATO mission. In a televised address, tonight, the President talked about the progress they've made and the new relationship between the United States and Afghanistan:...
President Obama made a surprise visit to Afghanistan, where he signed an historic agreement between the United States and Afghanistan that defines how the partnership between the United States and Afghanistan will be normalized as we look beyond a responsible end to the war.
After his meeting with President Karzai at the Presidential Palace in Kabul, President...
President Obama is currently in Afghanistan, and tonight, at 7:30 PM ET, he'll address the nation on the future of the NATO mission in the region after a decade of war.
You can watch live at WhiteHouse.gov/live.