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Obama in hard-hit Fort Myers to push stimulus plan

Feb. 10, 2009
President Obama on Tuesday is taking his stimulus sales pitch to a town hall in Fort Myers, Florida, a politically conservative region suddenly reeling under double-digit unemployment and the highest home foreclosure rate in the nation.
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President Obama awards the Presidential Medal of Freedom in Washington
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President Barack Obama awards the the Presidential Medal of Freedom to singer/songwriter Bob Dylan during a ceremony in the East Room at the White House in Washington on May 29, 2012. The Medal of Freedom is our NationÕs highest civilian honor, presented to individuals who have made especially meritorious contributions to the security or national interests of the United States, to world peace, or to cultural or other significant public or private endeavors. UPI/Kevin Dietsch