(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.
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| Obama signed the Affordable Care Act, his health care overhaul. It was the largest expansion of health care protections in more than 40 years in the United States, and a significant step toward the goal of universal health coverage that every Democratic president since Harry Truman had worked to achieve. |
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| Obama on an outdoor stage on a rainy May 31, 2010, in Chicago. He was scheduled to speak on Memorial Day. “When the lightning started flashing, the Secret Service told the president that the weather was dangerous and the program should not go ahead,” said White House photographer Pete Souza. “He himself went up to the podium and told the audience that his speech had been canceled and that it was for everyone’s safety that they should return to their buses. He then got on a few buses to thank them for coming and apologize for not being able to speak.” |
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| Obama listens to questions at the G-20 Summit in Toronto on June 27, 2010. Obama said: “We came to Toronto with three specific goals: ensuring a strong and durable global economic recovery, continuing to reform our financial system, and addressing the range of global issues that affect our prosperity and security. And we made progress in each of these areas.” |
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| US President Barack Obama puts his toes on the scale as White House travel director Marvin Nicholson checks his weight in Austin, Texas, August 8, 2010. |
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| Obama hosts a working dinner with Middle East leaders on September 1, 2010. In addition to Obama, from left are Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and Jordan's King Abdullah II. Obama said he was "cautiously optimistic" that the talks could reach a two-state solution to the long-running conflict in the Middle East. |
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| Obama plays basketball before speaking at Cleveland State University on October 31, 2010. |
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| US President Barack Obama greets troops after an unannounced flight to Afghanistan on December 3, 2010. The US combat mission in Afghanistan ended in December 2014, but US troops remain in the country to support Afghan forces and counterterrorism operations. |
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| Obama prays in the Oval Office with staff on January 27, 2011. |
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| The Obama family's first trip to the Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro on March 19, 2011. Obama visited Brazil, Chile and El Salvador during his trip to Latin America. |
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| Obama speaks with Vice President Joe Biden after a conference call on Libya on April 5, 2011. Obama pledged to commit U.S. forces to the UN-authorized mission in Libya, and he told the American public that there were both strategic and moral reasons to act. Failure to do so, he said, would allow Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi to use his military to suppress his people. |
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| Obama and members of his national security team watched the raid that killed Osama bin Laden on May 1, 2011. CNN's Peter Bergen, re-enacting the bin Laden raid five years later, said: "Fourteen people crammed into the room, with the president sitting in a folding chair in the corner at the head of the table. They stayed in the room until the SEALs returned to Afghanistan." (The classified documents in front of Hillary Clinton were blurred by the White House.) |
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| Obama and the First Lady enjoy a glass of Guinness while visiting their ancestral home in Moneygall, Ireland on May 23, 2011. Moneygall is considered the birthplace of one of the Obama family's ancestors. |
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| Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron play table tennis with students in London on May 24, 2011. |
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| During his state visit to the UK, Obama met with Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip. The Obamas presented the Queen with a handmade leather-bound album of memorabilia and photographs from the Queen's parents' visit to the US in 1939. |
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| Obama greets Hugh Hills, 85, in front of his home destroyed by a tornado in Joplin, Missouri, on May 29, 2011. It was the deadliest tornado on U.S. soil since the National Weather Service began keeping records in 1950. Nearly 160 people died in the disaster. |
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| Obama chats backstage with Senior Advisor Valerie Jarret before a reception in Philadelphia on June 30, 2011. |
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| Obama shakes the prosthetic hand of Sergeant Leroy Arthur Petry on July 12, 2011. Petry was at the White House to receive the Medal of Honor. He lost his hand when he threw an enemy grenade away from a group of his comrades in Afghanistan. |
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| Obama does push-ups on the White House basketball court on April 9, 2012. |
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| During an event on April 18, 2012, Obama sat looking out the window of the famous Rosa Parks bus restored by the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan. The US President said: "I just sat there for a moment and thought about the courage and perseverance that is part of our recent history, but also part of the long line of people who are sometimes anonymous, often not written in the history books, but who have always held on to their dignity, who have worked together to make the American dream." |
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| Obama congratulates cadets during their graduation ceremony at the US Air Force Academy on May 23, 2012. |
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