Presidential Meetings

Casual and formal moments in a presidential context, featuring discussions, briefings, and interactions reflecting governance and decision-making.

President Barack Obama stands with Members of Congress in House Speaker John Boehner's ceremonial office as Bill Livingood, House Sergeant at Arms, left, and Terrance Gainer, Senate Sergeant at Arms, right, prepare to escort them onto the floor of the House Chamber at the U.S. Capitol, Jan. 25, 2011.
President Barack Obama stands with Members of Congress in House Speaker John Boehner's ceremonial office as Bill Livingood, House Sergeant at Arms, left, and Terrance Gainer, Senate Sergeant at Arms, right, prepare to escort them onto the floor of the House Chamber at the U.S. Capitol, Jan. 25, 2011.
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Moore, Okla., May 26, 2013 President Barack Obama greets local resident Scott Lewis and his family at Plaza Towers Elementary School. Lewis and his son rode out the storm at their home in a storm shelter next to the school. Obama was joined by FEMA Administrator Craig Fugate and local and state officials to visit the area.. Moore, OK, May 26, 2013--President Barack Obama greets local resident Scott Lewis and his family at Plaza Towers Elementary School. Lewis and his son rode out the storn at their home in a storm shelter next to the school. Obama was joined by FEMA Administrator Craig Fugate and local and state officials to visit the area.. Photographs Relating to Disasters and Emergency Management Programs, Activities, and Officials
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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry hugs his daughter, Vanessa Kerry, while reviewing his departure remarks in his barren office at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on his final day in office January 19, 2017.
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The daughter of Russian cosmonaut Roman Romanenko, Anastasia Romanenko, speaks to her father shortly after his arrival aboard the International Space Station, on Friday, Dec. 21, 2012 in Korolev, Russia. Onboard the Soyuz spacecraft are Expedition 34 Soyuz Commander Roman Romanenko, Flight Engineer Chris Hadfield, and NASA Flight Engineer Tom Marshburn. The crew of three launched at 6:12 p.m. Kazakhstan time on Wednesday, Dec. 19 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
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Secretary Gale Norton with Rhode Island Governor Donald Carcieri, right, at event at Touro Synagogue, Newport, Rhode Island, featuring the announcement of a Save America's Treasures program grant for the Synagogue, the nation's oldest
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Office of the Secretary - Swearing-In for Gene Scalia, Solicitor of Labor Continued
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Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo co-hosts a naturalization ceremony with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on October 22, 2020.
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March 7, 2015 "For Presidential trips, I usually have another White House photographer accompany me so he or she can preset with the press and obtain angles that I can't, as I usually stay close to the President. Lawrence Jackson made this iconic image from the camera truck as the First Family joined others in beginning the walk across the Edmund Pettus Bridge."
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President Barack Obama sits alone on the patio outside the Oval Office, following a meeting with his senior advisors, April 4, 2011.
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Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, and U.S. Ambassador to Sweden Mark Brzezinski walk along the Strommen en route to a meeting with Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt on May 14, 2013 in Stockholm, Sweden.
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Republican National Convention 2008
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Dedication of new memorial at the African Burial Ground National Monument in New York City, New York, with keynote address by Secretary Dirk Kempthorne and presentations by dignitaries including New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, New York Senator Charles Schumer, General Services Administrator Lurita Doan, National Park Service Deputy Director for Operations Dan Wenk, African Burial Ground Superintendent Tara Morrison, New York Public Library Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture Director Howard Dodson, poet and novelist Maya Angelou, and actors Sidney Poitier and Avery Brooks. The permanent memorial, constructed to honor the memories of the free and enslaved Africans bured at the original seven-acre Lower Manhattan site in the 17th and 18th Centuries, was opened to the public for the first time.
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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry leads a swearing-in ceremony for over 100 incoming Peace Corps volunteers in Rabat, Morocco, on April 4, 2014.
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Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken meets with Australian Foreign Minister and Minister for Women Marise Payne at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on May 13, 2021.
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President Barack Obama, with Vice President Joe Biden, slides across a counter to pose for photos with staff following lunch at the Dupont Circle Shake Shack in Washington, D.C., May 16, 2014.
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Reportage: Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Mrs. Susan Pompeo arrive in the Czech Republic on August 11, 2020.
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2008 Republican National Convention
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Vice President Joe Biden, flanked by Polish Ambassador to the United States Robert Kupiecki, signs a condolence book at the Polish Embassy in Washington, D.C., April 14, 2010.
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Four-time Boston Marathon winner Bill Rodgers walks with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, his Australian counterpart - and avid runner - Foreign Minister Julie Bishop, Race Director Dave McGillivray, and Boston Athletic Association President Joanne Flaminio while showing them the Marathon finish line on October 13, 2015, before the ministers' annual AUSMIN diplomatic and defense meetings at the Boston Public Library in Boston, Massachusetts.
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July 16, 2015 "In July the President became the first sitting President to visit a federal prison. Here the President departs El Reno Federal Correctional Institution in Oklahoma with Valerie Jarrett and Secret Service agent Rob Buster."
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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Mongolian President Taskhia Elbegdorj looked at gifts they exchanged - a bronze statue and a Chelsea clock � following their bilateral meeting on June 5, 2016, at the Ikh Tenger leadership complex in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.
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With U.S. Ambassador to Vietnam Ted Osius and Vietnamese officials looking on, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is greeted by U.S. Deputy Chief of Mission Susan Sutton upon arrival in Hanoi, Vietnam, on January 12, 2017. In Hanoi, the Secretary will meet with senior Vietnamese officials to discuss a range of bilateral and regional issues.
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A NASA Tweetup attendee frames a picture of Sen. John Glenn at an event celebrating John Glenn's legacy and 50 years of americans in orbit held at the Cleveland State University Wolstein Center on Friday, March 3, 2012 in Cleveland, Ohio. Glenn became the first American to orbit Earth in 1962.
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President Barack Obama watches performers on the tarmac before departing Julius Nyerre International Airport in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, July 2, 2013. President Jakaya Kikwete of Tanzania waves at left.
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Hurricane/Tropical Storm - Duryea, Pa. , September 16, 2011 Vice President Joe Biden consoles Stephanie Remsky who lost her home due to flooding from tropical storm Lee. The Vice President toured the damaged area and met with survivors here. Pennsylvania Tropical Storm Lee. Photographs Relating to Disasters and Emergency Management Programs, Activities, and Officials
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Washington DC. Statue of President Lincoln, at night, at the Lincoln Memorial, with people
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Event marking the success of the Green Roof installation atop the Main Interior Building ("Green Roof in Action"), with Secretary Dirk Kampthorne, Deputy Secretary P. Lynn Scarlett, and other senior officials on hand
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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry passes padlocks on the Passerelle del Solferino � a sign of an unbreakable bond between a couple � as he crosses the Seine River while walking to the Quai d�Orsay in Paris, France, for a meeting with French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius on Oct. 13, 2014.
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Man in front of a window.
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Four people and a skeleton in grocery store lineup
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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Linda Thomas-Greenfield listen to former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo - now chairperson of the African Union's Commission of Inquiry - speak about the conflict in South Sudan during a meeting in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on May 2, 2014.
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Preserve America Presidential Awards event at the White House, with Advisory Council on Historic Preservation Chairman John Nau III providing the introduction and First Lady Laura Bush announcing awards to the African Burial Ground project (resulting in the African Burial Ground National Monument) in New York City, the Lower East Side Tenement Museum in New York City, the Corinth and Alcorn County, Mississippi Heritage Tourism Initiative, and the Historic Courthouse Preservation Program in Texas
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Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. CQ Brown, Jr. speaks with the Children of the Gospel Choir following a holiday concert at the Daughters of the American Revolution Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C., Dec. 10, 2022.
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U.S. Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo meets with staff and families from U.S. Embassy Bangkok in Bangkok, Thailand, on August 1, 2019.
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New Orleans. 2008. T-shirts with pictures of Barack Obama and Martin Luthe with the motto The Dream. Presidential elections in November 2008.
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Alberto Gonzalez