The black American writer James Baldwin made a comment in a talk he gave in 1961 that has had haunting resonance during President Barack Obama’s presidency: [Attorney General] Bobby Kennedy recently made the soul-stirring promise that one day—thirty years, if I’m lucky—I can be President...
For instance, when former US president Barack Obama tried to begin a healthcare reform during his presidency, some senators(参议员) were opposed at first. But after reading the poem titled Fishing in Snow(《江雪》)translated by Xu, one senator was so impressed with the fisherman's independent...
They married in Hawaii in 1961 and separated later that year. He married Michelle Obama in October 1992. He and Michelle have two daughters, Malia and Sasha. Associated With He defeated Republican candidate John McCain to win the presidency in 2008. Video Barack Obama Highlights ...
Sharon Wright AustinPalgrave Macmillan USWright Austin, Sharon and Danielle King. "President Barack Obama and Racial Politics." In The Barack Obama Presidency: A Two Year Assessment, edited by J. Davis, 47-62. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011....
Update: Watch Monday's interview with President Obama.As he enters the fourth quarter of his presidency, President Obama said he hopes the nation celebrates continued economic growth and that the middle class will reap the benefits."We’ve made progress
You might say that one reason Barack Obama is the President of the US is because he knows how to give a good speech. In 2004, when Massachusetts Senator(参议员) John Kerry was the Democratic Party's nominee(被提名者) for the presidency, a little-known senator from Illinois gave the key...
but we’ve endured many versions of them already. each has given way to new hardships, but also new triumphs. barack obama has shown how quickly the impossible can become the norm in profound ways. donald trump’s ascent warns of the same in discomfiting parody. on the advent of the la...
The following is a script of "President Obama" which aired on Sept. 28, 2014. Steve Kroft is the correspondent.L. Franklin Devine, Maria Gavrilovic and Michael Radutzky, producers. Last week was a long and momentous one in the presidency of Barack Obama. On Monday, he began a bombing ca...
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Washington(CNN) Barack Obama directly confronts the racist politics of President Donald Trump in the first volume of his post-presidency memoir, bluntly suggesting how he believes his historic election in 2008 opened a wave of bitter and divisive turmoil that fueled Republicans’ obstructionism and ul...