by Obama Barack
Obama’s U.S. Senate term and, 55, 56
Rousseff, Dilma, 661
Rove, Karl, 54, 132
Rubin, Bob, 214, 330
Rubio, Marco, 262
Rumsfeld, Donald, 50, 156, 215, 346
Rush, Bobby, 36–37, 39, 42, 43, 46
Russert, Tim, 73, 105
Russia
authoritarianism, 337, 340, 343, 457–58, 459, 460–61
Group of 8 and, 326
invasion of Georgia, 339–40, 341, 345–46, 350, 465
Iranian nuclear program and, 342, 465, 470–72, 483–84
leadership, 337, 340
Libya military intervention and, 660, 667–68
nuclear nonproliferation strategies and, 61–62, 340, 341–42, 465, 470–72
Obama’s meeting with Medvedev (2009), 341–43
Obama’s visit (2009), 461–67
START, 342, 483, 566, 603, 608
Syria and, 652
weakness of, 459–60
Rwanda, 657
Ryan, Jack, 50
Ryan, Paul, 670
S
Sa’adi, 470
Sadat, Anwar, 364, 625
safety net. See social safety net
Salazar, Ken, 561–62, 563, 568, 569, 571
Samore, Gary, 470, 484
Santelli, Rick, 272–74, 276–77, 403
Sarkozy, Nicolas
climate change policies and, 512
G20 summit and, 334, 335, 336, 343
Greek debt crisis and, 530, 531
Iranian nuclear program and, 472
Libya and, 656, 658, 660, 665
Normandy commemoration and, 367
Obama’s meeting with (2008), 159
post-crisis economy and, 527
Saudi Arabia, 359, 360–63, 452, 454, 626, 638, 652
savings and loan crisis, 548
Scalia, Antonin, 389
Schäuble, Wolfgang, 529
Schiliro, Phil
Affordable Care Act campaign and, 382, 384, 400, 408–9, 413, 419–21, 424, 425
climate change policies and, 500–501, 502
lame-duck session (2010) and, 603
Recovery Act and, 256, 257, 258, 264
Schumer, Chuck, 68, 586, 587
Scowcroft, Brent, 217
Sebelius, Kathleen, 111, 381, 386, 426
Second Intifada, 626
Shaheen, Billy, 103
Shahzad, Faisal, 576
Sharon, Ariel, 625–26
Sharpton, Al, 117
Sheehan, Michael, 51
Shelby, Richard, 188
Shomon, Dan, 40, 45, 46
Shuttlesworth, Fred, 124
Sidwell Friends School, 222, 223, 240–41, 541
Signator, Mike, 58, 59, 60
Simas, David, 397
Simon, Paul, 43, 49, 56
Simon, Sheila, 49
Simpson, Alan, 670
Sinatra, Frank, 191, 220
Singapore, 478–79
Singh, Manmohan, 337–38, 513, 600–602
Six-Day War (1956), 624
Smith, Gayle, 640
Smoot, Julianna, 90
Snowe, Olympia, 263–64, 400, 412, 415–16, 560
Sobchak, Anatoly, 458
social media. See digital networks
social safety net, 261, 274–76, 671
See also New Deal
Social Security. See social safety net
Soetoro-Ng, Maya (Obama’s half sister)
mother’s illness and death and, 25, 26, 30–31
Nobel Peace Prize award and, 445
presidential campaign and, 106, 113
Toot’s illness and death and, 197, 198, 199, 221
Solis, Hilda, 533
Solyndra, 493
Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr, 341
Somalia
Black Hawk Down incident, 655, 687
Maersk Alabama hijacking (2009), 351, 352–53
Sorensen, Ted, 230
Sotomayor, Sonia, 388–91
Souter, David, 387
South Africa, 337
South China Sea, 476
Souza, Pete, 251, 324, 574, 593, 598, 618, 693
Soviet Union
breakup of, 60, 61–62, 329, 340, 457
Egypt and, 364, 625
United Nations and, 469
See also Cold War
Spalding, Esperanza, 445
Spanish flu, 385
special operations, 681, 687–88
See also bin Laden operation
Specter, Arlen, 263–64, 382
Sperling, Gene, 213, 300
START (Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty), 342, 483, 566, 603, 608
State Department
climate change policies and, 507
Hillary Clinton appointment and, 219
diplomacy emphasis and, 447
Guantánamo Bay document declassification and, 356
Middle East authoritarianism and, 638
Pentagon-Obama administration relations and, 438
tensions within national security team and, 312
See also Clinton, Hillary; specific people
stem-cell research, 234
Stephanopoulos, George, 99–100
Stern, Todd, 507, 510, 515
Stevens, Chris, 668
Stevens, John Paul, 566
Stevens, Ted, 57
Stewart, Mitch, 93, 94, 102
stimulus package. See American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START), 342, 483, 566, 603, 608
Streep, Meryl, 542
stress test, 280–82, 293, 294, 297, 303–4, 526
Stupak, Bart, 424
Suez Canal crisis, 363
Suleiman, Omar, 646, 650
Summers, Larry
appointment of, 211–12, 213, 214
austerity policies and, 330
auto industry initiatives and, 298
China visit (2009), 483
Dodd-Frank Act and, 547, 553
on economy, 521
financial crisis planning and, 235–36, 238, 240
post-crisis economy and, 523, 525
presidential campaign and, 182
resignation of, 596
Wall Street initiatives and, 278–81, 292–93, 294, 295, 303
Warren and, 551
Sunstein, Cass, 496, 638
Supreme Court
functions of, 387–88
Kagan nomination, 566
Sotomayor nomination, 388–91
Souter retirement, 387
Sutley, Nancy, 535
Sutphen, Mona, 535
Sutton, Sam, 252–53
Svanberg, Carl-Henric, 572
Swann, Barbara, 252
Sweet, Lynn, 394
swine flu, 386
Syria, 652, 653, 656
T
Taiwan, 474
Taliban, 155, 316, 317, 320, 431, 433, 437, 442
See also Afghanistan war
TARP (Troubled Asset Relief Program)
announcement of, 181–82
auto industry and, 298
bipartisanship and, 183–84, 240
bonuses and, 291, 294–96
Bush’s transition comments on, 207–8
congressional oversight, 522–23, 551
global financial system and, 278
passage of, 193
post-crisis criticisms of, 522–24
repaying of, 304
Republicans and, 255, 295, 523
Tea Party and, 403
transi
tion planning and, 238, 240
Wall Street initiatives and, 293, 303, 304
Warren and, 551
White House meeting (2008), 185–90, 191
tax policy, Obama administration
Bush tax cut deal, 604–7, 670
Recovery Act and, 244, 248, 264, 605–6
Wall Street initiatives and, 295
Team of Rivals (Goodwin), 218
Tea Party
Affordable Care Act campaign and, 403–6, 408, 411, 519
midterm elections of 2010, 670
racism and, 672
Recovery Act and, 403
Republican obstruction strategy and, 671
technology. See digital networks
terrorism
Fort Hood shooting, 441–42
inauguration threat (2009), 227–28, 230
Israeli-Palestinian conflict and, 624, 626–27, 628
Libya and, 653
national security and, 309
President’s Daily Brief and, 313
Underwear Bomber, 520, 583–84
See also counterterrorism policies, Obama administration; al-Qaeda
Tewes, Paul, 91–94, 96, 102
Thein Sein, 478
Thomas, Clarence, 388
Thomas, Ed, 4
Thompson, Bennie, 137
Tiananmen Square massacre, 349, 480
Timberlake, Justin, 288
Titcomb, Bobby, 8, 379
Tocqueville, Alexis de, 14
Toot. See Dunham, Madelyn Lee Payne
tornadoes (2011), 688–89
torture
banning of, 233, 355–56, 583
Guantánamo Bay detainees and, 581
Iraq and Afghanistan wars and, 314
trade policy, Obama administration, 326
trade unions
Affordable Care Act campaign and, 393–94, 422
auto industry initiatives and, 297–98
China and, 474, 475
financial policy and, 552
fuel-efficiency standards and, 495
healthcare and, 375, 377
on NAFTA, 476
Obama’s intellectual development and, 11
Obama’s presidential campaign on, 177
Obama’s U.S. Senate campaign and, 46
racism in, 201
Trinity United Church of Christ (Chicago), 23, 119–20
See also Wright, Jeremiah A., Jr.
Truman, Harry S., 250, 375–76, 611, 624
Trump, Donald, xiii, 672–74, 683–84, 691–93
Tunisia, 641, 642
Turkey, 346–47, 639–40
Tutu, Desmond, 72
Two-Income Trap, The (Warren and Tyagi), 551
Tyagi, Amelia, 551
U
U2, 136
UAW (United Auto Workers), 298–99, 495, 497
Ukraine, 61, 460
Underwear Bomber, 520, 583–84
unemployment, 521–22, 525, 575, 670
unions. See trade unions
United Auto Workers (UAW), 298–99, 495, 497
United Kingdom
bin Laden operation and, 696
G20 summit and, 334
Iran coup (1951) and, 358, 450, 567
Iranian nuclear program and, 472
Libya and, 656, 658, 660
Obama-Brown summit, 286
post-crisis economy, 527
United Nations
Ban Ki-moon leadership, 508–9
Bush administration policies, 447
Climate Change Conference (Copenhagen, 2009), 503, 506, 508–16
climate change policies and, 503–4, 505, 506
idealism and, 468–70
Libya and, 654, 656, 658, 659, 660, 661
nuclear nonproliferation strategies and, 450, 456, 471–72, 484
tensions within national security team and, 311
UNGA Week, 468, 470
Upper Big Branch Mine disaster (2010), 559
V
Velvet Revolution, 349
Vilsack, Tom, 93, 533
Vivian, C. T., 122, 123
Volcker, Paul, 182, 552–53
Volcker Rule, 182, 552–53, 555
W
Wagoner, Rick, 298
Wahhabism, 360–61
Wall, Payton, 698–99, 700
Wall Street initiatives, Obama administration, 277, 278–83, 292
decision not to indict bank executives, 292, 586
stress test, 280–82, 293, 294, 297, 303–4, 526
Wall Street attitudes, 295–97, 546
See also Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act
Walsh, Larry, 42
Walter Reed Army Medical Center, 323–25
Warner, John, 57
War Powers Act, 667
Warren, Elizabeth, 551–52
Warren, Robert Penn, 9
Washington, George, 219–20
Washington, Harold, 16–18, 36, 43, 49
Washington Mutual, 549
Waxman, Henry, 384, 391, 393, 500
Weather Underground, 194
Webb, Brad, 694
Weinstein, Jeremy, 640
welfare state. See social safety net
Wen Jiabao, 338–39, 481–82, 511–12, 513–16
West, Cornel, 211–12
West Point, 444–45
Whitaker, Cheryl, 59, 106
Whitaker, Eric, 59, 106, 142, 538
white evangelical voters, 628
White House
Oval Office, 205–6, 668–69
staff of, 4–5, 251–54
West Colonnade, 3–5
White House Correspondents’ Dinner (2011), 690–93
Wiesel, Elie, 368–69, 371
Wilson, Joe, 411
Wilson, Kaye (Mama Kaye), 59, 461, 538
Wilson, Wellington, 59
Winfrey, Oprah, 105
Wisner, Frank, 645, 646, 649
women
fair pay for, 234
gender roles and, 88, 287–88
Obama administration work environment and, 535–37
See also specific people
Wonder, Stevie, 148, 149, 483, 542
Wood, Diane, 388, 389, 390
Woodward, Bob, 434, 435
Works Progress Administration (WPA), 237
World Bank, 328, 336
World Health Organization (WHO), H1N1 virus and, 385, 386
World Trade Organization (WTO), 473, 475, 484
World War II, 237, 309, 328, 367–68, 369–71
WPA (Works Progress Administration), 237
Wright, Jeremiah A., Jr.
ABC News video, 140–41, 143, 146
AIPAC and, 629
on audacity of hope, 51
background of, 119–20
conservative attacks and, 194
late campaign public appearances, 146–47
Obama’s candidacy announcement and, 120–21
Obamas’ church membership and, 120
Obama’s denunciation of, 147–48
Obamas’ marriage and, 23, 142
Obama’s speech on race and, 142
Wurzelbacher, Joe (Joe the Plumber), 193–94
Wynton Marsalis Quintet, 231
Y
Yeltsin, Boris, 457, 458, 459
Yemen, 581, 623
“Yes we can” slogan, 49, 111
Yom Kippur War (1973), 630
Young, Andrew, 18
Yushchenko, Viktor, 460
Z
Zardari, Asif Ali, 696
al-Zarqawi, Abu Musab, 322
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Zayed, Mohammed bin (crown prince of Abu Dhabi), 651
Zuma, Jacob, 337, 513
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