Barack Obama's 8 years as US President through 100 photos (Part 4)

(Baonghean.vn) - In just over 2 months, US President Barack Obama will complete his 8-year term in the White House. Let's take a look back at the most memorable moments of the 44th President of the United States through 100 photos compiled by CNN.

Obama experiences a driving simulator on July 15, 2014, during a tour of the Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center in McLean, Virginia. The simulator helps evaluate the types of “smart” vehicles being developed at the center.

The President of the United States made a speech about the unrest in Ferguson, Missouri on August 18, 2014. The St. Louis suburb was engulfed in chaos after Darren Wilson, a white police officer, shot and killed Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager. Obama said: “America is a country of laws, of law-abiding citizens, and of law-abiding citizens who support law-abiding citizens. So to the community in Ferguson that is hurting and waiting for answers, let me once again call on us to seek understanding instead of shouting at each other. Let us seek healing instead of hurting each other.”

Obama leaves the White House briefing room after speaking on a variety of topics on August 28, 2014. However, reactions on Twitter focused mainly on his rarely worn bright-colored suit.

Obama visited Stonehenge on September 5, 2014. White House photographer Pete Souza recalled: “We were at the NATO summit in Wales and someone told the president that Stonehenge wasn’t too far away. And the president said, ‘Let’s go.’ And when the summit ended, we changed course a little bit and stopped here before returning to Air Force One.”

Obama and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi visit the Martin Luther King Memorial in Washington on September 20, 2014.

Obama hugs Nina Pham, who has recovered from Ebola, in the Oval Office on October 24, 2014. She was one of two nurses in Dallas diagnosed with the virus, and was reported to have fully recovered after treatment at a hospital in Bethesda, Maryland.

The US President walks down the Colonnade corridor of the White House on January 22, 2015.

Obama spoke in front of the Edmund Pettis Bridge to mark the 50th anniversary of “Bloody Sunday,” when voting rights protesters were brutally suppressed in Selma, Alabama in 1965.

Obama poses for a photo with the world's fastest man - Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt at an event in Kingston, Jamaica on April 9, 2015.

Obama waves in a rainbow as he boards a plane in Kingston, Jamaica on April 9, 2015.

Obama speaks, flanked by comedian Keegan-Michael Key, who plays Luther, Obama's angry interpreter, at the White House Correspondents' Association annual dinner on April 25, 2015.

Obama bids farewell to the House Minority Leader from the West Wing lobby on April 29, 2015.

The US President speaks at a White House event recognizing rising global entrepreneurs on May 11, 2015.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel talks with Obama near the Bavarian Alps on June 8, 2015. Obama and other world leaders are in Germany for the annual G-7 summit. “The president sat down first, and then the German chancellor sat next to him,” said White House photographer Pete Souza. “I only had time to take a few shots before more people appeared in the background.”

Obama poses for a photo with the “Racing Presidents” of the Washington Nationals baseball team on June 11, 2015. From left are illustrations of former US Presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, William Howard Taft, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln. “The president told the Secret Service to stop the motorcade when he saw the group,” said White House photographer Pete Souza.

Obama sang “Amazing Grace” as people remembered the life of Clementa Pinckney, a senator from South Carolina, on June 26, 2015. Pinckney was one of nine victims killed in the shooting at a church in Charleston, South Carolina.

Obama greets the audience after speaking in Nairobi, Kenya on July 26, 2015. It was his first visit to his homeland as Commander-in-Chief of the United States.

The President and First Lady invited Pope Francis to the White House after a welcoming ceremony on September 23, 2015. The Pope had a six-day visit to the United States, visiting both New York and Philadelphia.

Obama was golfing in La Jolla, California, where a wedding was taking place on October 11, 2015. “The bride and groom were waiting inside, but when they looked out the window and saw the President, they decided to run out,” said White House photographer Pete Souza. Souza sent the photo to the couple, and they wrote to express their joy at having the President as an “uninvited guest” on their wedding day.

Obama holds Ella Rhodes, daughter of Deputy National Security Advisor Ben Rhodes, in the Oval Office on October 30, 2015. She was dressed as an elephant for a Halloween costume party at the White House.

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(According to CNN)