Barack Obama

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President Barack Obama confers in the Oval Office with, from left, Counselor to the President Pete Rouse, Director of Legislative Affairs Rob Nabors, Special Advisor Phil Schiliro, and Senior Advisor David Plouffe, Feb. 24, 2011. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)

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President Barack Obama rests his foot on the Resolute Desk during a call with British Prime Minister David Cameron in the Oval Office, Dec. 21, 2010. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)

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President Barack Obama rests his foot on a desk as he talks with Phil Schiliro, assistant to the President for legislative affairs, in the Outer Oval Office, Oct. 29, 2009. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)

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U.S. President Barack Obama waves upon arrival at Arlanda Airport, in Stockholm, Sweden, Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2013, with the Swedish flag and guard of honor in the background. President Barack Obama is opening a three-day overseas trip with a stop in the Swedish capital of Stockholm. Air Force One touched down Wednesday morning after an overnight flight from Washington. During his stay in Stockholm, Obama will meet with Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt and King Carl XVI Gustaf. He will also meet with other Nordic leaders from Finland, Denmark, Iceland and Norway. (AP Photo/Scanpix Sweden, Anders Wiklund)

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President Barack Obama holds a National Security Council meeting in the Situation Room of the White House. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)

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** FILE ** President Obama speaks by phone with his National Security Staff regarding the situation in Egypt, while in Chilmark, Mass., Aug. 15, 2013. (Official White House Photo by Amanda Lucidon)

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The Obama administration resisted designating as "terrorism" the 2009 shootings by Nidal Malik Hasan, above, at Fort Hood that killed 13 and wounded over 30. (Bell County Sheriff's Department via Associated Press)

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**FILE** Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (right), Vermont Democrat, and the committee's ranking Republican, Chuck Grassley of Iowa, arrive on Capitol Hill on July 31, 2013, as the panel questioned top Obama administration officials about the National Security Agency's surveillance programs for the first time since the House narrowly rejected a proposal last week to effectively shut down the NSA's secret collection of hundreds of millions of Americans' phone records. (Associated Press)