Year One.
Invitation to the inauguration of the 44th president.
Jan. 20, 2009: Inauguration of America's first black president.
A post-inaugural meeting with members of Congress.
A man carries a life-size cutout of the U.S. president past the Canadian parliament in Ottawa, to which Obama made his first official state visit.
Obama inspects the goods at an Ottawa gift shop.
First speech to a joint session of Congress.
The First Lady studies a memorial to women war heroes.
Michelle Obama pitches in at a local D.C. soup kitchen.
Michelle Obama reading to D.C.-area schoolchildren.
Snow fun on the South Lawn.
Obama can't disguise his excitement over a U.S. space mission.
Meeting in Berlin with his German counterpart, Chancellor Angela Merkel.
The Commander-in-Chief poses with the troops in Baghdad.
Jogging with White House mascot Bo, a Portuguese water dog donated to the Obama daughters, Malia and Sasha, by U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy.
Obama, Vice President Joe Biden and the president's successful nominee for the Supreme Court, Sonia Sotomayor.
Inspecting U.S. fighter jets.
Receiving honors from Saudi King Saud in Riyadh.
Pointing out the sights to Malia from Paris' Pompideau Centre.
Sasha lights a votive candle in the lobby of the Cathedral of Notre Dame, Paris.
Michelle Obama with D.C.-area schoolchildren at the organic garden she planted on the South Lawn.
Sasha helps pack food boxes for distribution to low-income people in D.C.
Obama signs a tribute to America's wartime women aviators.
Meeting at the Kremlin with his Russian counterpart, Dimitry Medvedev.
Obama and Medvedev in Moscow.
Papal visit at the Vatican.
Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi, host of the G-20 summit in L'Aquila, bids his guests inside for dinner.
Obama visits the White House press center with a gift for veteran reporter Helen Thomas, who shares an August 4th birthday with the president.
Canadian PM Stephen Harper, Mexican President Felipe Caleron and Obama at a Nafta summit.
A schoolchild takes notes during the president's nationally televised back-to-school address.
Obama addresses a joint session of Congress on the proposed healthcare reform bill.
Michelle and Barack Obama host the G-20 summit in Pittsburgh, here greeting Nicolas Sarkozy and the French president's wife, Carla Bruni.
Checking out microbes at a federally funded research centre.
Addressing medical interns on the South Lawn on healthcare reforms.
Lining up for the president's autograph at a domestic U.S. military base.
The Obamas return from Sunday worship.
Hoops with White House staffers and members of Congress.
A break from work with daughters Malia and Sasha.
Greeting naval officers.
Address on alternative energy at a solar-panel facility.
"Dignified transfer" of fallen soldiers at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware.
Tribute to victims of a shooting spree at Fort Hood, Texas.
Meeting in Tokyo with the Japanese PM.
Obama helps out at Martha's Table on Thanksgiving.
The First Family reacts to the lighting of the White House Christmas tree.
Obama prepares for his H1N1 flu shot.
The First Couple attends a Christmas pageant in D.C.
Pensive moment during a climate-change meeting, with White House advisor David Axelrod.
Reading a Christmas tale to schoolchildren.
A visit from members of the Boys & Girls Club of Washington, D.C. ends with a group photo.
Bill Clinton and Geroge W. Bush, Obama fundraising recruits in Haiti earthquake relief.
Snowball fight with Rahm Emanuel, White House chief of staff.
Obama meets with students before an address on an education-funding initiative.
Obama is a server at a Yuletide food-bank dinner.
Great photo montage David.
One tiny correction - King Saud was long long ago. Current Saudi King is Abdullah - preceded by Fahd who in turn was preceded by Khalid!
Posted by: wascally wabbit | 01/27/2010 at 07:37 PM
Hi WW: That's not a "tiny" correction. I've committed an error equivalent to identifying Mulroney as the current PM. Eek. Many thanks for the correction. -DO
Posted by: David Olive | 02/07/2010 at 03:42 PM