President Barack Obama thanks Matt Labbe, FEMA Corps Team Leader (AmeriCorps NCCC - Spruce 5) while visiting the FEMA National Response Coordination Center (NRCC) at FEMA Headquarters in Washington, DC. President Obama visited the NRCC on October 7, 2013, to thank FEMA employees for their ongoing dedication and service during the lapse in government appropriations. FEMA Corps, a partnership between FEMA and the Corporation for National and Community Service, is designed to strengthen the nation's ability to respond to and recover from disasters while expanding career opportunities for young people serving in AmeriCorps
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Date Taken: 2013-10-07 00:00:00 UTC
Photographer Name: Matthew Harmon
Keywords: FEMA ^ POTUS
Categories: Presidential Visit
Photographs Relating to Disasters and Emergency Management Programs, Activities, and Officials
Barack Hussein Obama II (born August 4, 1961) is an American politician who served as the 44th President of the United States from 2009 to 2017. He is the first African-American to have served as president, as well as the first born outside the contiguous United States. He previously served in the U.S. Senate representing Illinois from 2005 to 2008, and in the Illinois State Senate from 1997 to 2004. Obama was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, two years after the territory was admitted to the Union as the 50th state. He grew up mostly in Hawaii, but also spent one year of his childhood in Washington State and four years in Indonesia.
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