Archive for May, 2010

Presidential Memorial Day Celebrations

President Barack Obama’s Memorial Day speech was rained out after a downpour at the Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery near Chicago.

The President and spectators tried to wait out the storm, but canceled the speech after waiting thirty minutes for the…

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A Downpour on Memorial Day in Illinois

The President was able to lay a wreath at Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery in Elwood, Illinois before it started raining.  But he was forced to take the stage only to announce to the crowd that his Memorial Day address had to be cancelled.  The crowd was spared standing around in the rain, and the President attempted to make it up to some of them by talking with them on the buses they rode to dryness.

President Barack Obama after laying a wreath at Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery in Elwood, Illinois, on Memorial Day,

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Department of Justice releases former Ill. Governor Rod Blagojevich’s mug shot

He has been in front of the camera a lot lately, but now the Department of Justice has released his bug shot.

It took a Freedom of Information request from the media to finally see Rod Blgojevich with a number under his chin.

He is scheduled to go on…

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Barack Obama’s Memorial Day speech

The full text of President Barack Obama’s Memorial Day speech at Andrews Air Force Base (provided by the White House Office of the Press Secretary):

THE PRESIDENT: Hello, everybody. First of all, I want to just say thank you to Colonel Steve Shepro who’s…

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Obama’s Memorial Day speech rained out

A violent thunderstorm forced President Barack Obama to cancel his Memorial Day address Monday at Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery in Elwood, where he took to a rain-soaked stage and urged thousands of spectators to seek shelter.

The president, black…

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AP source: Obama to meet with co-chairmen of independent panel investigating Gulf oil spill

ANDREWS AIR FORCE BASE, Md. (AP) — President Barack Obama planned to meet Tuesday with the co-chairmen of an independent commission investigating BP’s catastrophic spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

A senior administration official said Obama will meet…

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After rain-out, Obama delivers speech back home

President Barack Obama said Monday that the meaning of Memorial Day is found in the story of ordinary Americans who become extraordinary for one simple reason: love of country.

Obama, speaking to dozens of troops at Andrews Air Force Base outside…

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B-17 drops flowers over Statue of Liberty in tribute to CIA employees killed in Afghanistan

FARMINGDALE, N.Y. (AP) — Historic aircraft escorted a B-17 bomber before it dropped flowers over the Statue of Liberty in a public Memorial Day tribute to seven CIA employees killed in Afghanistan.

Two World War II aircraft from the American…

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