July 7, 2014
"David Lienemann accompanied Dr. Jill Biden on her summer trip to Africa. Here, Dr. Biden and granddaughter Finnegan Biden wave to students assembled on the railings after a girls education event at the St. Joseph's Secondary School in Freetown, Sierra Leone."
(Official White House Photo by David Lienemann)
July 8, 2014
"A woman slips a note into the President's front shirt pocket as he greeted pedestrians during an impromptu walk in downtown Denver, Colorado."
(Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
July 8, 2014
"The President whistles along to Van Morrison's 'Brown-Eyed Girl' while shooting pool with Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper in Denver, Colorado. The President took great pride in beating the Governor at the bar the Governor founded."
(Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
July 9, 2014
"The President salutes an Air Force member as he disembarks Air Force One to greet Texas Gov. Rick Perry upon arrival at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport. The President and Gov. Perry later discussed immigration aboard Marine One en route to a meeting with other officials."
(Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
July 10, 2014
"During remarks on the economy in Austin, Texas, the President was heckled about immigration by two young men in the audience. After being interrupted again, the President told the men that he wanted to finish his speech but would be happy to have a conversation with them later. As soon as he left the stage, the President told his staff to bring the two men backstage so he could indeed talk to them about immigration."
(Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
July 17, 2014
"Secure communications are always available to the President wherever he travels. The President happened to be in New York when Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 crashed in Ukraine, apparently shot down. In a holding room, the President held a conference call with CIA Director John Brennan and his national security team to discuss the U.S. response. Senior Advisor Dan Pfeiffer and Anita Decker Breckenridge, Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations, monitored updates on their Blackberrys."
(Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
July 21, 2014
"The President shares a laugh backstage with Los Angeles Clippers basketball player Chris Paul, who was about to introduce the President at a 'My Brother's Keeper' initiative town hall in Washington, D.C. A few minutes before this photograph was taken, I was talking to Chris and he told me how nervous he was about doing the introduction. It surprised me that a basketball superstar, who plays under enormous pressure every night in front of tens of thousands of people, would be nervous. The President then came over and before long, had Chris cracking up in laughter to help put him at ease. I'll note that Chris did a great job in his introduction, and there were no visible signs of nervousness."
(Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
July 23, 2014
"Surrounded by Secret Service agents, the President views the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco. Rather than immediately board the Marine One helicopter at Crissy Field, the President instead walked right past the helicopter to see a better view of the bridge on a clear summer day."
(Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
July 23, 2014
"Occasionally, a graphic element becomes the key factor in an interesting photograph. Here, at Los Angeles International Airport, I ran out in front of Air Force One to preposition myself at a low angle to take advantage of the yellow stripe as the President walked off the plane."
(Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
July 29, 2014
"An unusual angle can often be the key factor to an interesting photograph. Here, Chuck Kennedy was on the roof of the West Wing to capture the President as he walked from the Oval Office to the South Lawn of the White House to deliver a statement on the situation in Ukraine."
(Official White House Photo by Chuck Kennedy)
July 29, 2014
"Sometimes you get lucky as a photographer. The President was greeting the crowd outside Arthur Bryant's Barbeque in Kansas City. As he began talking to a young boy, actually giving him some life advice, someone's smart phone briefly illuminated the President's face. Without this light, the photograph wouldn't have been nearly as successful."
(Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
July 30, 2014
"I'm including this photograph because the President just loved looking around at Cool Vintage Watches in Parkville, Missouri. 'A lot of cool stuff,' was how he described it to me afterwards. He said he could have spent a lot more time looking around in the shop, which had much more than just watches."
(Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
July 31, 2014
"It's true that the President has a calm demeanor. Not always though. Here the President expresses his dismay at comments from a Republican member of Congress discussing the administration's policy in Syria during a meeting with the chairs and ranking members of congressional national security committees. This frank exchange was later reported in the press."
(Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
August 14, 2014
"'Presidents don't get vacations; they get a change of scenery,' then First Lady Nancy Reagan once said about her husband's trips to his California ranch. It doesn't really matter if a President is in the Oval Office or on vacation in Martha's Vineyard. He is still the President, capable of making decisions wherever he is. Here, while on vacation in Chilmark, Massachusetts, the President puts the finishing touches on his remarks after meeting with Attorney General Eric Holder and others about the the situation in Ferguson, Missouri."
(Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
August 29, 2014
"This view of the President reading briefing material was taken with a remote camera set up on the mantel above the fireplace in the Oval Office."
(Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
August 29, 2014
"I was on the second helicopter and arrived moments before Marine One touched down at Brenton Point in Newport, R.I. I bet one of the advance staff that after landing, instead of walking to the motorcade the President would walk across the road to view the ocean at sunset. I won the bet."
(Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
September 4, 2014
"Meetings happen everywhere including on the escalator. Here, the President continues a conversation with German Chancellor Angela Merkel following their meeting with other leaders at the NATO Summit in Newport, Wales."
(Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
September 5, 2014
"We were at the NATO Summit in Wales when someone mentioned to the President that Stonehenge wasn't that far away. 'Let's go,' he said. So when the Summit ended, we took a slight detour on the way back to Air Force One."
(Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
September 8, 2014
"The First Lady is definitely a hugger. Chuck Kennedy captured this moment of her hug with someone in the audience following her remarks in support of the Reach Higher initiative in Atlanta, Georgia."
(Official White House Photo by Chuck Kennedy)
September 8, 2014
"'How Does Someone Get to Meet the President of the United States?' Parker McAllen, 13, wrote such a letter to the President, and before long, the President invited Parker and her family to the White House."
(Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
September 14, 2014
"The President, First Lady, and daughter Malia view a portrait of Abraham Lincoln while visiting the National Portrait Gallery and Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C."
(Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
September 15, 2014
"The President checks out a baby's foot while greeting guests at a picnic on the South Lawn of the White House."
(Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
September 17, 2014
"'Don't make rabbit ears', the President said to a group of students before taking a photo with them. Which of course some of them couldn't resist doing. I especially love the girl with her arm wrapped around the President's arm. The students were from an elementary school at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Florida."
(Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
September 18, 2014
"Given how much of the President's time was occupied with Ukraine this year, I thought it was important to show the President meeting with President Petro Poroshenko of Ukraine in the Oval Office."
(Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
September 19, 2014
"Through a crack in the door, the President listens as Lilly Jay related her experience as a sexual assault survivor during the launch of the 'It's On Us' campaign, a new public awareness and action campaign designed to prevent sexual assault at colleges and universities."
(Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
September 19, 2014
"At the end of the day, the President walks along the White House colonnade with Anita Decker Breckenridge, Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations."
(Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
September 22, 2014
"As the President was greeting wounded warriors and their families, I focused on this young girl as the President shook hands with her father. I love how she's touching the President's arm as she looks up at him almost in disbelief."
(Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
September 22, 2014
"It's called 'Wrap with Denis' on the schedule. The end of the day meeting between the President and Chief of Staff Denis McDonough often turns into a walk on the South Grounds of the White House. And Denis usually carries a red folder with him."
(Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
September 27, 2014
"Lawrence Jackson captured the First Lady backstage watching the President deliver remarks at the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation's 44th Annual Legislative Conference Phoenix Awards Dinner in Washington, D.C."
(Official White House Photo by Lawrence Jackson)
September 30, 2014
"I asked the President if I could ride in his vehicle as he traveled to the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial with Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India."
(Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
October 2, 2014
"A view from the Nighthawk Two helicopter of Lake Michigan and the Chicago skyline as the President traveled aboard Marine One."
(Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
October 6, 2014
"The President was taking a walk with former Chief of Staff and Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel when they stopped to pet Sunny along the South Grounds of the White House."
(Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
October 7, 2014
"I love all the different things happening in this photograph by David Lienemann, with the main moment being the Vice President greeting a baby during a campaign rally in Bakersfield, California."
(Official White House Photo by David Lienemann)
October 8, 2014
"A portrait of the President as he listened during a meeting with staff in the Rose Garden. The meeting was originally scheduled in the Oval Office but the President moved it outside because the weather was so pleasant."
(Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
October 13, 2014
"During a meeting on Ebola, the President and Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell listen via speaker phone to Dr. Tom Frieden, Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The President was dressed somewhat casually because it was Columbus Day, a federal holiday."
(Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
October 14, 2014
"The President lifts the daughter of a departing staff member in the Oval Office."
(Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
October 14, 2014
"The President was meeting with a group of mentees in the Roosevelt Room of the White House. As the meeting was coming to a close one of the participants challenged the President to a game of HORSE. 'Let's go,' the President responded, and the entire group walked down to the basketball court on the South Lawn. In addition to the shooting competition, the President also used the opportunity to further talk to the young men about life lessons, not basketball."
(Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
October 15, 2014
"When the skies opened up one fall afternoon, I ventured outside the Outer Oval Office with my iPhone to try and capture a good Instagram of the rainstorm. The President saw me standing out on the White House colonnade and stepped outside himself. Fortunately, I also had my DSLR with me to capture this photograph as the President reached out to feel the raindrops."
(Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
October 16, 2014
"The President talks on the phone to Texas Gov. Rick Perry to make sure Texas had the necessary resources if more health-care workers became ill with the Ebola virus. Because there were several other people in the Oval Office, I tried to incorporate them into the photograph."
(Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
October 17, 2014
"There are countless government employees who are doing unsung work on behalf of the American people. One of those is Lisa Monaco, Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism. When I introduce Lisa to friends and family, I tell them that she is working nonstop to help keep the American people safe. I'm including this photograph taken outside on the President's patio of LIsa updating him on the Ebola virus because she spends almost all of her time in either her windowless office or in the Situation Room. It just so happened that an electric shortage had caused the Oval Office to be filled with a pungent smell, moving the meeting outside."
(Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
October 20, 2014
"It was supposed to be just a simple early voting by the President at the Martin Luther King Jr. Community Center in Chicago, Illinois. When Aia Cooper, left, and her fiancé Mike Jones, far right, walked by to also cast their ballot, Jones quipped, 'Mr. President, don't touch my girlfriend.' The President replied, 'I really wasn't planning on it,' joking that Jones was 'an example of a brother just embarrassing you for no reason.' When the President finished voting, he reached over and gave Cooper a kiss on the cheek."
(Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
October 24, 2014
"When Nina Pham walked into the Oval Office, the President gave her a big hug as her family and White House Dr. Ronny Jackson watched. Nina, a Dallas nurse diagnosed with Ebola after caring for an infected patient in Texas, was being treated at the National Institutes of Health in nearby Bethesda, Maryland, and the President invited her to the White House when she was released after being declared Ebola-free."
(Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
October 31, 2014
"The President greets a youngster while he and the First Lady handed out Halloween treats to local children and children of military families at the White House."
(Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
November 5, 2014
"'It's the fourth quarter and a lot of interesting things happen in the fourth quarter,' was one of the President's comments as he met with the White House staff in the Roosevelt Room the day after the mid-term elections. Though the Democrats did not fare well, the President wanted the staff to know that they, and he, could still accomplish a lot of good for the American people in the final two years of his Presidency."
(Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
November 7, 2014
"While walking with incoming Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell from the Oval Office to a lunch with other Congressional leaders, the President stopped on the White House colonnade to discuss the upcoming Congressional session."
(Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
November 11, 2014
"Access for me at foreign summits is usually quite limited. Somehow, I managed to be backstage with the President as he and other world leaders were waiting for the start of an Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Plenary Session in Beijing, China."
(Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
November 13, 2014
"I almost tripped coming down the stairs trying to make this photograph as the President turned the corner at the bottom of the stairs coming into this beautiful light casting shadows and and his silhouette at the Parliamentary Resource Center in Naypyitaw, Burma."
(Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
November 13, 2014
"The President was shopping for family gifts with local vendors at a hotel in Naypyitaw, Burma. When he found some earrings he thought would be good for his daughter Malia, he sought out a hotel employee to see how they might look."
(Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
November 14, 2014
"The President walks to Air Force One at Naypuitaw International Airport in Burma for departure en route to Yangon."
(Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
November 14, 2014
"The President walks with Aung San Suu Kyi back into her residence following their joint press conference in Yangon, Burma."
(Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
November 15, 2014
"The President holds a koala backstage prior to the G20 Welcome to Country Ceremony at the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Center in Brisbane, Australia."
(Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
November 19, 2014
"Lawrence Jackson captured the President busting out in laughter as he and the First Lady recorded a holiday video message in the Map Room of the White House."
(Official White House Photo by Lawrence Jackson)
November 19, 2014
"A lot of business is done during informal meetings and conversations, often away from the Oval Office. Here, the President ventured upstairs to the second floor of the West Wing to talk with Neil Eggleston, Counsel to the President, outside his office."
(Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
November 20, 2014
"Fulfilling their promise, the President and First Lady have lunch with youth from the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe at a restaurant in Washington, D.C. Earlier in the day, the youth toured the White House and had meetings with the President and First Lady and other White House officials."
(Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
November 25, 2014
"As a meeting in the Situation Room was about to break up, I focused on the Vice President's hand as he held up his briefing book and assorted folders."
(Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
November 26, 2014
"The President and his daughters Malia and Sasha look at 'Mac' the turkey in the East Room prior to the annual National Thanksgiving Turkey pardon ceremony at the White House. The President pardoned 'Cheese' publicly, though both 'Mac' and 'Cheese' were spared to live out their life at a farm in Ohio."
(Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
December 1, 2014
"Following the outcry over the shooting of Michael Brown by a policeman in Ferguson, Missouri, the President invited young civil rights leaders to a meeting in the Oval Office. Many of them had protested in Ferguson. A 30-minute scheduled meeting last more than an hour. As the meeting broke up, the President continued the conversation for a few minutes and I then managed to frame the bust of Martin Luther King, Jr. in the foreground."
(Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
December 3, 2014
"The First Lady and I both spotted the President standing under the mistletoe and she moved in to grab a kiss from him following a dinner for Combatant Commanders and military leadership at Blair House in Washington, D.C."
(Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
December 7, 2014
"While waiting to be introduced before the Kennedy Center Honors reception at the White House, the President began whistling a Christmas song in the Blue Room."
(Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
December 7, 2014
"The President and First Lady applaud Tom Hanks, one of the honorees at the Kennedy Center Honors."
(Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
December 8, 2014
"The President mimics a middle-school student overcome with emotion at meeting him during an 'Hour of Code' event to honor Computer Science Education Week at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building."
Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
December 11, 2014
"The President talks on the phone with Deputy National Security Advisor Ben Rhodes as Ferial Govashiri displays a photograph on her computer of Ben's newborn daughter."
(Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
December 12, 2014
"The President walks through the Ground Floor Corridor of the White House as he heads back to the Oval Office following a holiday reception."
(Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
December 16, 2014
"The President talks on the phone with President Raúl Castro of Cuba in the Oval Office. The next day, the President announced the U.S. would restore full relations with Cuba after more than 50 years."
(Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
첫댓글 오발룸에서 파리를 때려잡는 오바마 ^^
서민을 위해주는 모습이 어쩐지 늘 우러나옵니다. 진솔한 아우라가 풍겨요.
시간이 갈수록 지도자의 모습이 강해지네요.
아이들, 서민들, 직원들, NGOs,정치가, 외국지도자와 만나느라 늘 바쁘군요.
진정한 지도자는 바쁠 수 밖에요......
다재다능하네요.
우리도 저런 대통령 있었지 않았나요??
악의 축