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Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle were greeted with rapturous applause when they finally arrived at the FNB stadium for Nelson Mandela's memorial service.

The President's motorcade is pictured stuck in traffic on its way to the FNB Stadium for the ceremony.

Nelson Mandela Memorial service: President Barack Obama with Michelle Obama, George W. Bush, Laura Bush and Hillary Clinton arrive at Waterkloof Air Force Base Airport in South Africa.

He left this note at the prison.



"On behalf of our family we’re deeply humbled to stand where men of such courage faced down injustice and refused to yield. The world is grateful for the heroes of Robben Island, who remind us that no shackles or cells can match the strength of the human spirit."

Barack Obama and Michelle Obama 30 June 2013.



source: http://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski/16-moving-images-from-president-obamas-visit-to-the-prison-n

President Obama and the first family visited the apartheid-era prison on Robben Island, South Africa, Sunday where Nelson Mandela and other anti-apartheid leaders were jailed as political prisoners.

Facing history: President Obama took a tour of Goree Island outside of Dakar, Senegal where slaves used to depart on boats bound for America in the late 18th century.

President Barack Obama has spent the afternoon touring a Senegalese island where millions of Africans were shipped across the Atlantic into slavery and he called the visit a 'very powerful moment.'

Obama says visiting Goree Island with his family helps them fully appreciate the magnitude of the slave trade. They toured the museum at the Maison des Esclaves where slaves were gathered before going through the 'Door of No Return' and being forced onto ships bound for North America.

Obama tours the Great Pyramids of Giza and Sphinx in Egypt on June 4, 2009.

Obama tours the Great Wall in Badaling, China, on November 18, 2009, just days after he attended the APEC Summit in Singapore.

JAPAN: The President eats green tea-flavored ice cream during his visit to the Kotoku-in Temple in Kamakura on November 14, 2010.

POLAND: The President shakes hands with veterans during a ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Warsaw on May 27, 2011.

KOREA: Obama uses binoculars to view the DMZ from Observation Post Ouellette at Camp Bonifas, Republic of Korea, on March 25, 2012.

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President Obama giving a fist bump to a US soldier while visiting troops at camp victory in Iraq on April 7, 2009.

Obama presenting the former soldier with the Medal of Honor.

Groberg is the tenth living recipient of the nation's highest military award for actions in Afghanistan. Seven more were posthumously awarded the medal.

Groberg, a native of France who became a naturalized US citizen in 2001, received the highest award for a US service member for his actions on August 8, 2012 when he hurled himself at a suicide bomber in the Afghan city of Asadabad.

Groberg sustained serious injuries to his left leg, while the blast killed four people; Command Sgt Maj Kevin J Griffin, Maj Thomas E Kennedy, Air Force Maj Walter D Gray and Ragaei Abdelfattah, a US Agency for International Development foreign service officer.

Groberg has medically retired from the Army and now works as a civilian at the Pentagon.


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3315050/Obama-awarding-Medal-Honor-retired-Army-captain.html

The doors alone are eight inches thick and weigh as much as the doors on a Boeing 757 aircraft. The windows are five inches thick and made of bulletproof glass. The tires are run-flats to allow the Beast to stay on the road if attacked.

There is a steel plate underneath to protect it from roadside bombs and the gas tank is surrounded with foam and armor to prevent it from exploding.

Finally, the Beast is actually sealed from within to protect the president from chemical attacks.

All of the windows except the driver's cannot be opened, the driver's window will open three inches to allow him to pay tolls or to talk to Secret Service agents who are running alongside the vehicle.


http://www.mrctv.org/blog/7-incredible-facts-about-presidents-limo

Whenever the President is traveling, The Beast must go with him, so the Secret Service uses a C-17 Globemaster transport plane to carry the Beast, a second limo and an armored Chevrolet Suburban used as a communications vehicle.

Obama chairs a meeting aboard Air Force One.

Obama, Sasha and Malia were joined by some of the girls' friends and security for a Saturday stroll.

President Obama wept as he spoke of the mindless shooting. He seems to agree it's time for action over gun control. Sandyhook Elementary school shooting, Connecticut, 2012.

President Obama wept as he spoke of the mindless shooting. He seems to agree it's time for action over gun control. Connecticut shooting, 2012.

Security: A U.S. military helicopter flies over while Obama and Kenyatta answer questions from the media. Kenya, 2015.

Arrival: The U.S. President leaves his car as he arrives to visit the State House in Nairobi.

Convoy: Police officers stand guard as Obama's convoy drives to the State House in Nairobi. 2015.

“In July the President became the first sitting President to visit a federal prison. Here the President departs El Reno Federal Correctional Institution in Oklahoma with Valerie Jarrett and Secret Service agent Rob Buster.”

“The President and his national security staff all smiles shortly after being notified of the nuclear agreement with Iran.” July, 2015.

“Although he doesn’t play competitive basketball anymore, basketball is still a big part of his life. He had just given a speech on education and college affordability at Georgia Tech in Atlanta, and when we passed through the gym on the way back to the motorcade, he took a few minutes to try and drain some three-point shots.” March 10, 2015.

“A rare moment of weekend laughter with the President’s key national security aides, from left, National Security Advisor Susan E. Rice, Deputy National Security Advisor Avril Haines and Homeland Security Advisor LisaMonaco as they joke about a cartoon in the New Yorker that resembled the three women.” Dec. 5, 2015.

The president with Deputy National Security Advisor Ben Rhodes' daughter, Ella(2015).

“During the autumn months, as the sun dips lower in the sky, the light in the Oval Office changes throughout the day. Here, late one afternoon, the sun illuminated the President as he spoke on the telephone with Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan.” Oct. 16, 2015.

“Underneath a picturesque sky, the President boards Air Force One prior to departure from John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York.” July 21, 2015.

“The Obama family and Biden family greet Pope Francis as he arrives in the United States for the first time at Joint Base Andrews.” Sept. 22, 2015.