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The Indian Health Care Improvement Act is a bill signed into law by President Barack Obama on March 23, 2010. [39] The law was part of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. [39] The bill was originally enacted by President Gerald Ford in 1976, which expired in 2000. Obama's reauthorization for the bill has made it permanent. [40]
26 March 2011: Obama addressed the nation from the White House, providing an update on the current state of the military intervention in Libya. [83] US President Barack Obama addressing the people of the United States about the US intervention in Libya (26 March 2011)
On August 28, 2014, President Barack Obama held a press conference about the situation regarding ISIS in Syria, and how the U.S. military was planning to respond to it. At the conference, Obama said that the U.S. had yet to develop a plan regarding the removal of ISIS, and talked extensively about his concerns in the region.
The Obama Doctrine is used to describe one or several principles of the foreign policy of U.S. President Barack Obama.In 2015, during an interview with The New York Times, Obama said: "You asked about an Obama doctrine, the doctrine is we will engage, but we preserve all our capabilities".
Barack Obama, the 44th president of the United States, has received numerous honors in recognition of his career in politics.. Obama received the Norwegian Nobel Committee's Nobel Peace Prize in 2009, The Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education's Ambassador of Humanity Award in 2014, the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award in 2017, and the Robert F. Kennedy Center for ...
John Punch (c. 1605 – c. 1650) was a Central African resident of the colony of Virginia who became its first enslaved person. [2] [3]Thought to have been an indentured servant, Punch attempted to escape to Maryland and was sentenced in July 1640 by the Virginia Governor's Council to serve as a slave for the remainder of his life.
The family of Barack Obama, the 44th president of the United States, is a prominent American family active in law, education, activism and politics. Obama's immediate family circle was the first family of the United States from 2009 to 2017, and are the first such family of African-American descent. [1]
West publicly supported 2008 Democratic presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama, and spoke to more than 1,000 of Obama's supporters at the Apollo Theater in Harlem, on November 29, 2007. [106] West criticized Obama when he won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2009, saying that it would be difficult for Obama to be "a war president with a peace ...