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I missed the first one.  When Barack Hussein Obama was sworn in as our first African-American president with an agenda that I believed passionately in,…

As Air Force One lifted off Sunday night, President Obama and his family left behind a 77-degree Hawaiian evening for Washington, D.C., where the temperature was a brisk 23 degrees. If a 54-degree climate swing were not reason enough to lament the end of vacation, President Obama certainly had others.

President Obama and the Obama family participated in their first lighting of the National Christmas Tree on Thursday. The lighting of the tree is a tradition that dates back to the Coolidge administration in 1923.

This week the <strong>White House</strong> released the much-anticipated official <strong>Obama</strong> family photo on its Flickr page. The portrait was taken in the Green Room of the White House on September 1 by famed Vanity Fair photographer <strong>Annie Leibovitz</strong>. Click here to see the photo. <!--more-->