The White House Gift Shop, Est. 1946 by Permanent Presidential Memorandum and Members of Secret Service President Barack Obama taking his Oath of Office - Jan 20, 2009By permanent presidential memorandum of President Harry S. Truman to
General Harry Vaughan, and James J. Rowley, Chief of United States
Secret Service, the White House Flower Fund became the White House
Security Fund which soon, thereafter, became the White House Gift Shop
now in our 70th year of service to Americans and global Friends of
America.
President Barack Obama
The story of Barack Obama is the American story — values from the heartland, a middle-class
upbringing in a strong family, hard work and education as the means of getting
ahead, and the conviction that a life so blessed should be lived in service to
others. With a father from Kenya and a mother from Kansas, President Obama was born
in Hawaii on August 4, 1961. He was raised with help from his grandfather, who
served in Patton's army, and his grandmother, who worked her way up from the
secretarial pool to middle management at a bank. After working his way through college with the help of scholarships and
student loans, President Obama moved to Chicago, where he worked with a group of
churches to help rebuild communities devastated by the closure of local steel
plants. He went on to attend law school, where he became the first African-American
president of the Harvard Law Review. Upon graduation, he returned to
Chicago to help lead a voter registration drive, teach constitutional law at the
University of Chicago, and remain active in his community.
President Obama's years of public service are based around his unwavering
belief in the ability to unite people around a politics of purpose. In the
Illinois State Senate, he passed the first major ethics reform in 25 years, cut
taxes for working families, and expanded health care for children and their
parents. As a United States Senator, he reached across the aisle to pass
groundbreaking lobbying reform, lock up the world's most dangerous weapons, and
bring transparency to government by putting federal spending online. He was elected the 44th President of the United States on November 4, 2008,
and sworn in on January 20, 2009. He and his wife, Michelle, are the proud
parents of two daughters, Malia and Sasha.
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