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Poor Bill Yosses. He's the White House pastry chef. He makes desserts for a living.
Michelle and Barack Obama sat one table over from J. Lo and Marc Anthony, and all four of them were rocking in their seats as Sheila E. shook the house — well, really the tent.
Early in the 2008 campaign, when high hopes hadn't given way to harsh realities, presidential candidate Joe Biden told his wife, Jill, "I can picture myself sitting in the Oval Office. I can picture who I'd pick up the phone and call."
Early in the 2008 campaign, when high hopes hadn't given way to harsh realities, presidential candidate Joe Biden told his wife Jill, "I can picture myself sitting in the Oval Office. I can picture who I'd pick up the phone and call."
You can't see it, but there's a quiet cultural revolution under way at the White House.
On Sept. 11, 2001, Barack Obama was driving to a state legislative hearing in Chicago when he heard the first sketchy reports of a plane hitting the World Trade Center on his car radio. The 40-year-old state senator spent the afternoon in his law office watching "nightmare images" of destruction and grief unfold on TV.
Knocked off stride by a racial uproar he helped stoke, President Barack Obama hastened Friday to tamp down the controversy. Obama, who had said Cambridge, Mass., police "acted stupidly" in arresting black scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr., declared the white arresting officer was a good man and invited him and the professor to the White House for a beer.
Trying to tamp down a national uproar over race, President Barack Obama acknowledged Friday he had used unfortunate words in declaring that Cambridge, Mass., police "acted stupidly" in arresting black scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. "I could've calibrated those words differently," he said.
That was fast. The hope and optimism that washed over the country in the opening months of Barack Obama's presidency are giving way to harsh realities.
That was fast. The hope and optimism that washed over the country in the opening months of Barack Obama's presidency are giving way to harsh realities.
He spoke, this 35-year-old firefighter, to frustrations that still ripple in an undercurrent across the nation.
From her early days as a lawyer, Sonia Sotomayor never was content to be what she calls the "fifth guy on the totem pole."
It's a good thing Sonia Sotomayor speaks Sotomayoran.
He's more powerful; she's more popular.
There he was, in the heart of the Muslim world, explaining the American mindset to Muslims and the world of Islam to Americans, with the bearing of a college professor.
Surely, Stanley Dunham was gazing skyward 65 years ago, on D-Day.
Stress over grades. Financial worries. Trouble sleeping. Feeling hopeless.
Oh, Joe. Vice President Joe Biden — with a well-deserved reputation as someone who shoots from the lip — made it through the first 100 days of the Obama administration without any major gaffes. But on Day 101 the vice president, well, took a nosedive when it came to the government's talking points on air travel during the swine flu outbreak.
Joe Biden said Thursday he advised his family to stay off airplanes and subways because of the swine flu, a remark that forced the vice president's office to backtrack, the travel industry to cry foul and other government officials to try to massage Biden's message.
For decades, Arlen Specter was the kind of Republican who would rather fight than switch.
Barack Obama opened his presidency by drawing an unflinching portrait of the challenges. Then he set about turning those perils into possibilities.
A nation awash in celebrities still hungers for genuine heroes, never more so than in dreary times like these.
President Barack Obama doesn't have time for a victory lap now that his Cabinet is finally largely in place.
In a story March 29, The Associated Press reported that the House had quietly shelved a "Green the Capitol" program to zero out the U.S. Capitol's carbon impact by December 2008. While the House has abandoned the "Green the Capitol" program's goal of carbon neutrality, other aspects of the "Green the Capitol" program are ongoing.
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