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President Obama on Monday unveiled his very own official, verified Twitter account, with the handle @POTUS for President of the United States . Hello, Twitter! It s Barack. Really! Six years in stanley cup , they re finally giving me my own account.mdash; President Obama @POTUS May 18, 2015 Previously, those looking for Mr. Obama s point of view on Twitter would have to tur stanley water bottle n to @WhiteHouse, the official account for the administration, or @BarackObama, an account run by Organizing for Action, the nonprofit that evolved from Mr. Obama s campaign organization Obama for America. When either of those accounts tweeted a message directly from Mr. Obama, it would end with the signature, -bo. Watch President Obama send his first tweet from @POTUS. FollowTheTweetshttps://t.co/N8JxY8kQIEmdash; The White House @WhiteHouse May 18, 2015 According to a White House press release, Mr. Obama sent his first @POTUS tweet from the O stanley cup becher val Office. The new account, the White House said, will serve as a new way for the president to engage directly with the American people, with tweets coming exclusively from him. By Monday evening, the president had accumulated more than 1.2 million followers. He also followed 65 other Twitter accounts, including the universities he attended, Chicago sports teams, cabinet agencies and members of his administration including Vice President Biden. He s also following the former presidents on Twitter -- George H.W. Bush Gtuj Amy Klobuchar dropping out of 2020 race and endorsing Joe Biden
President Bush is opening the White House this week to black leaders including pastors and legislators, a second-term overture to a community that overwhelmingly opposed his re-election. I believe in fresh starts, said Rep. Melvin Watt, D-N.C., new chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus, which has had an adversarial relationship with the president but has a chance to get off on a better footing at a meeting Wednesday.The meeting with black la stanley cup wmakers comes after Mr. Bush is receiving 14 black clergy and 10 black leaders in business and non-profit agencies Tuesday afternoon at the White House. Exit polls showed that Mr. Bush received just 11 percent of the black vote in November s election, a slight increase over the 9 percent he received four years earlier. This is an opportunity for the president to talk about our priorities and the agenda, White House spokesman Scott McClellan said. It s also an opportunity for the president to listen to issues of interest to these leaders. During last year s political campaigns, Republican officials said they were making a more concerted effort to reach out to blacks stanley quencher through religious leaders. Bush campaign aides cited issues such as school vouchers and the president s support of stanley becher a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage that could help him gain more support among blacks.Mr. Bush s efforts to steer more federal dollars to social programs conducted by so-called faith-based groups al
President Obama on Monday unveiled his very own official, verified Twitter account, with the handle @POTUS for President of the United States . Hello, Twitter! It s Barack. Really! Six years in stanley cup , they re finally giving me my own account.mdash; President Obama @POTUS May 18, 2015 Previously, those looking for Mr. Obama s point of view on Twitter would have to tur stanley water bottle n to @WhiteHouse, the official account for the administration, or @BarackObama, an account run by Organizing for Action, the nonprofit that evolved from Mr. Obama s campaign organization Obama for America. When either of those accounts tweeted a message directly from Mr. Obama, it would end with the signature, -bo. Watch President Obama send his first tweet from @POTUS. FollowTheTweetshttps://t.co/N8JxY8kQIEmdash; The White House @WhiteHouse May 18, 2015 According to a White House press release, Mr. Obama sent his first @POTUS tweet from the O stanley cup becher val Office. The new account, the White House said, will serve as a new way for the president to engage directly with the American people, with tweets coming exclusively from him. By Monday evening, the president had accumulated more than 1.2 million followers. He also followed 65 other Twitter accounts, including the universities he attended, Chicago sports teams, cabinet agencies and members of his administration including Vice President Biden. He s also following the former presidents on Twitter -- George H.W. Bush Gtuj Amy Klobuchar dropping out of 2020 race and endorsing Joe Biden
President Bush is opening the White House this week to black leaders including pastors and legislators, a second-term overture to a community that overwhelmingly opposed his re-election. I believe in fresh starts, said Rep. Melvin Watt, D-N.C., new chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus, which has had an adversarial relationship with the president but has a chance to get off on a better footing at a meeting Wednesday.The meeting with black la stanley cup wmakers comes after Mr. Bush is receiving 14 black clergy and 10 black leaders in business and non-profit agencies Tuesday afternoon at the White House. Exit polls showed that Mr. Bush received just 11 percent of the black vote in November s election, a slight increase over the 9 percent he received four years earlier. This is an opportunity for the president to talk about our priorities and the agenda, White House spokesman Scott McClellan said. It s also an opportunity for the president to listen to issues of interest to these leaders. During last year s political campaigns, Republican officials said they were making a more concerted effort to reach out to blacks stanley quencher through religious leaders. Bush campaign aides cited issues such as school vouchers and the president s support of stanley becher a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage that could help him gain more support among blacks.Mr. Bush s efforts to steer more federal dollars to social programs conducted by so-called faith-based groups al
