October 10: October has been a busy, busy, busy month: there’s health care, Afghanistan, financial matters, speeches. Here, Obama speaks with Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
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October 10: Pictured here is the presidential limousine, ready to whisk Obama off to the Human Rights Campaign’s dinner for his speech on gay rights. At the dinner, he promised to repeal Don’t Ask Don’t Tell.
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October 11: The Obama family makes its way from the White House to St. John’s Church to worship at its Sunday morning services.
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October 13: The day the Senate Finance Committee passes its health care bill, the President walks to the Rose Garden podium to laud its work. He singles out Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-ME) for her “political courage” and “seriousness of purpose.”
He continues: “As a result of these efforts, we are now closer than ever before to passing health reform. But we’re not there yet. Now is not the time to pat ourselves on the back. Now is not the time to offer ourselves congratulations. Now is the time to dig in and work even harder to get this done.”
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October 13: A working lunch with Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero. Their last meeting, at the G-20 Summit, engendered some controversy when Zapatero’s never-before-photographed daughters appeared on the State Department’s Flickr account.
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October 13: A quick team huddle with Rahm Emanuel, Robert Gibbs, Phil Schiliro and Ben Rhodes, before a press conference with Prime Minister Zapatero.
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The Obamas take in the performance at the White House’s “Fiesta Latina.”
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Los Lobos from Chicago enlivens Fiesta Latina.
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The Obamas cut a rug.
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Obama salsas with singer Thalia.
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October 14: James and Dolley Madison’s portraits hover over Obama and adviser Chris Lu in the Blue Room.
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October 14: Obama touts the stimulus at a large public works project in Fairfax, Va.
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October 14: As a climate change meeting concludes, the President still has some points for Axelrod and Emanuel.
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October 14: Obama talks with Vicki Kennedy, the widow of Sen. Ted Kennedy, and the senator’s children, Rep. Patrick Kennedy, Teddy Kennedy Jr. and Kara Kennedy, prior to an event celebrating the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate.
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October 14: Sri Narayanachar Digalakote, a Hindu priest from the Sri Siva Vishnu Temple in Maryland, gives Obama a red shawl. Later, Obama signed the Asian American and Pacific Islander Initiative Executive Order and held a Diwali festival of lights ceremony.
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October 14: Obama walks on stage after being introduced by Rep. Patrick Kennedy at an event celebrating the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate.
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October 15: Obama waits for his introduction during the Democratic National Committee dinner at the Westin St. Francis Hotel, in San Francisco, Calif.
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October 15: Obama speaks students during a visit to the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Charter School in New Orleans, La.
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October 15: Students meet Obama during his visit to New Orleans.
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October 16: Obama says goodbye to former President George H. W. Bush and former Secretary of State James A. Baker, before leaving College Station, Texas. Obama and Bush spoke to Texas A&M University students about the important of community service.
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October 16: President Obama meets with Bush, U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk, Senior Advisor Valerie Jarrett and Defense Secretary Robert Gates, before the Points of Light forum at Texas A&M University.
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October 16: Obama, Bush and Gates greet Marine Corps cadets in the Marine Corps Mess Hall at Texas A&M University.
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October 21: Obama meets with Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) in the Oval Office upon his return from Afghanistan. Kerry helped persuade Afghan President Hamid Karzai to accept a runoff election.
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