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BARACK OBAMA SERVED AS THE 44TH PRESIDENT OF THE US FROM 2009 TO 2017. OBAMA PASSED SEVERAL
BILLS, WHICH SOUGHT TO EXTEND WELFARE SUPPORT AND HELP THE ECONOMY TO RECOVER FROM THE
FINANCIAL AND ECONOMIC CRISIS OF 2009. HIS PRIMARY LEGISLATION INCLUDED HEALTH CARE REFORM
(PROTECTION AND AFFORDABLE CARE ACT), AND THE AMERICAN RECOVERY AND REINVESTMENT ACT OF 2009.
OBAMA ALSO APPROVED A MAJOR BAILOUT OF THE AUTOMOBILE INDUSTRY. IN FOREIGN POLICY, OBAMA SOUGHT
TO END THE WAR IN IRAQ, THOUGH HE COMMITTED MILITARY SUPPORT TO COMBAT THE GROWING PRESENCE OF
IS IN IRAQ AND SYRIA. OBAMA ALSO SIGNED UP TO THE 2015 PARIS CLIMATE CHANGE AGREEMENT. DESPITE A
FRACTIOUS POLITICAL SYSTEM, OBAMA WAS NOTED FOR RETAINING A DIGNIFIED AND CALM DEMEANOUR,
SEEKING TO UNITE THE COUNTRY IN THE FACE OF DIVISIVE ISSUES. HE IS WIDELY REGARDED AS A CHARISMATIC
SPEAKER – FREQUENTLY SPEAKING ON THE IDEALS OF HOPE AND OPTIMISM.
• BARACK OBAMA WAS BORN 4 AUG 1961 IN HAWAII. HIS FATHER WAS A KENYAN INTELLECTUAL AND HIS MOTHER A WHITE
TEENAGER FROM KANSAS. WHEN BARACK WAS STILL YOUNG, HIS FATHER ABANDONED THE FAMILY AND BARACK WOULD
ONLY MEET HIS FATHER ON A FEW FUTURE OCCASIONS. AFTER A BRIEF SPELL LIVING IN INDONESIA, HE MOVED BACK TO
HAWAII WHERE HE WAS RAISED BY HIS GRANDPARENTS.
• FOR SOME YEARS, OBAMA’S NATIONALITY WAS THE SUBJECT OF INTENSE SPECULATION BY THE RIGHT-WING MEDIA, AND
FIGURES SUCH AS DONAL TRUMP SUGGESTING OBAMA WAS NOT AMERICAN. OBAMA LATER PRODUCED TWO BIRTH
CERTIFICATES TO PROVE HIS NATIONALITY.
• AFTER STUDYING LAW AT HARVARD, HE WORKED AS A CIVIL RIGHTS LAWYER IN CHICAGO. IT WAS HERE IN CHICAGO THAT
HE MET HIS FUTURE WIFE, MICHELLE. THEY MARRIED IN 1992 AND HAD TWO CHILDREN.
• IN 1996, HE GAINED HIS MAJOR POLITICAL BREAKTHROUGH SERVING IN THE ILLINOIS STATE SENATE. IN 2004, HE WAS
ELECTED TO THE US SENATE WHERE HE GAINED A REPUTATION AS ONE OF RISING STARS IN THE DEMOCRAT PARTY. HIS
BOOK ‘THE AUDACITY OF HOPE’ BECAME A BEST SELLER AND INCREASED HIS NATIONAL PROFILE. IN THE AFTERMATH OF THE
IRAQ WAR, HIS REPUTATION WAS ENHANCED BY HIS PREVIOUS OPPOSITION TO THE WAR.
US PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA TAKING
THE OATH OF OFFICE IN 2009.
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