UPI POY 2009 - Washington DC (139 images)

President Barack Obama visits the section 60 at Arlington National Cemetery, in Arlington, Virginia on Veterans Day, November 11, 2009. Section 60 contains the grave sties of servicemen and women who were killed in Iraq and Afghanistan. UPI/Kevin Dietsch

President Barack Obama greets a Veterans Day visitor to Arlington National Cemetery, in Arlington, Virginia on November 11, 2009. Obama was joined by Brigadier General Karl Horst (R). UPI/Kevin Dietsch

U.S. President Barack Obama discusses his administration's approach to balancing America's national security and governmental transparency in a speech at the National Archives in Washington on May 21, 2009. Obama also spoke about his administration's plans to deal with the terrorist detainee camp at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. Behind Obama is a portrait depicting the creation of the U.S. Constitution. UPI/Roger L. Wollenberg

The Dalai Lama greets Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-CA, after he was awarded the inaugural Tom Lantos Human Rights Prize on Capitol Hill in Washington on October 6, 2009. UPI/Roger L. Wollenberg