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President Barack Obama
Personal
Barack Hussein Obama II was born August 4, 1961, in Honolulu, Hawaii, to parents Barack H. Obama, Sr., and Stanley Ann Dunham. His parents divorced when he was 2 years old and he was raised by his mother, Ann, and maternal grandparents, Stanley and Madelyn Dunham. His motherlater married Lolo Soetoro, and his sister Maya was born in 1970. (He also has several siblings on his father’s side.)
Obama moved with his family to Indonesia in 1967, where he attended local Indonesian schools and received additional lessons via U.S. correspondence courses under his mother’s direction.
He returned to Hawaii to live with his grandparents in 1971 and attended Punahou School, from which he graduated in 1979. Obama first attended Occidental College in Los Angeles, before transferring to Columbia University, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science in 1983.
After graduation, Obama briefly worked as an analyst at Business International Corporation in New York City, before changing his career direction toward community service organiz
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Barack Obama - Travels of the President - Travels - Department History
| Country | Locale | Remarks | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Canada | Ottawa | Met with Prime Minister Harper. | February 19, 2009 |
| United Kingdom | London | Met with Queen Elizabeth II and Prime Minister Brown. Attended the G-20 Economic Summit Meeting. | March 31–April 3, 2009 |
| France | Strasbourg | Attended the NATO Summit Meeting. | April 3–4, 2009 |
| Germany | Baden-Baden, Kehl | Attended a working dinner for NATO leaders. | April 3–4, 2009 |
| Czech Republic | Prague | Attended U.S.-European Union Summit meeting. | April 4–5, 2009 |
| Turkey | Ankara, Istanbul | Met with President Gul and Prime Minister Erdogan; addressed the Grand National Assembly. | April 5–7, 2009 |
| Iraq | Baghdad | Met with President Talabani and U.S. military personnel. | April 7, 2009 |
| Mexico | Mexico City | Met with President Calderon. | April 16–17, 2009 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | Port-of-Spain | Attended the Summit of the Americas. | April 17–19, 2009 |
| Saudi Arabia | Riyadh | Met with King Abdullah. | June 3–4, 2009 |
| Egypt | Cairo | Met with President Mub
Barack Obama: Foreign AffairsIraq and AfghanistanIn addition to inheriting an economy in crisis when he took office, President Obama inherited two wars, one in Iraq and the other in Afghanistan. An early opponent of President George W. Bush’s decision to invade Iraq in 2003, Obama promised during the 2008 election campaign to withdraw American troops as soon as possible. In February 2009, he announced a plan to bring troop levels down from 160,000 to 50,000 by August 2010, including the removal of all combat forces. The remaining troops, he added, would be withdrawn by the end of 2011. For several years, the withdrawal proceeded smoothly, in part because Obama was able to build on the gains achieved by Bush's “surge” of 20,000 additional troops in 2007, which had helped the government of Iraq to restore a measure of stability to the country. By 2012, only 150 American troops were in Iraq, a number that remained level for about three years. Obama’s other war-related campaign promise was to step up the US military commitment in Afghanistan in order to keep the extremist Tali Copyright ©airtory.pages.dev 2025 |