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Barack Obama

Barack Obama

1961 CE · Washington, D.C.

Barack Obama was the 44th President, serving from 2009 to 2017 as a Democrat, and the first African American to hold the office. A former U.S. senator from Illinois, he signed the Affordable Care Act of 2010, a major health care law. His administration also responded to the 2008 financial crisis and its aftermath.

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Washington, D.C.

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About Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States, is the area where the teacher Tara Brach founded the Insight Meditation Community of Washington in 1998, one of the larger Western vipassanā (insight meditation) communities, drawing on the Theravāda-derived insight tradition.

In Washington, D.C. at the same time

Herbert Hoover, Harry S. Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Lyndon B. Johnson, Ronald Reagan, Gerald Ford

Across the traditions, in Washington, D.C. at the same time

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In the same place & time

Sages whose lives overlapped with Barack Obama’s in the same cities, drawn from their recorded journeys.

Across the traditions

The world in their lifetime

Thinkers, teachers, and rulers whose lives overlapped with Barack Obama’s — a glimpse of the wider world they lived in. Drawn purely from recorded birth and death years.

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