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Barack H. Obama is the 44th President of the United States.
His story is the American story — values from the heartland, a middle-class upbringing in a strong family, hard work and education as the means of getting ahead, and the conviction that a life so blessed should be lived in service to others.
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George Herbert Walker Bush served as the 41st President of the United States. A veteran Republican politician, he had previously held office as a congressman, ambassador, CIA director and 43rd Vice President of the United States during the Reagan administration.
Born in Milton, Mass., Bush attended the prestigious...
In 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt established a presidential directive allowing African Americans to be recruited in the Marine Corps. African American recruits were not trained at Parris Island or San Diego, but were segregated and received basic training at Montford Point, a facility at Camp Lejeune, N.C. From 1942-1949, approximately 20,000 African American recruits received training...
