The President holds Chaplain (Captain) Emil Kapaun s Easter stole during a greet with Father Kapaun

President Obama walks with President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan on the White House Colonnade after their meeting in the Oval Office. Afghanistan continued to occupy a lot of the President s time during 2013.
The President sings Happy Birthday to the First Lady after greeting inaugural brunch guests in the Blue Room of the White House. Of course, the First Lady s new hairstyle attracted a lot of attention.
The President and First Lady wave to supporters as they ride in the inaugural parade. I had asked the President if I could ride in the presidential limousine and the President joked, flad travel volunteers news encompass But Michelle and I were planning to make out.
The First Lady watches as the children of former Staff Sergeant Clinton Romesha choose apples in the Oval Office. flad travel volunteers news encompass The President later awarded SSG. Romesha the Medal of Honor for conspicuous gallantry.
The President genuinely enjoys being with kids. Here, he played a magnifying glass game with children during a visit to a pre-kindergarten classroom at the College Heights Early Childhood Learning Center in Decatur, Georgia.
The President leans on an umbrella as he waited for heavy rain to let up before crossing from the Eisenhower Executive Office Building to the West Wing of the White House. Most of the staff and Secret Service with the President didn t have umbrellas so he waited for the rain to subside before crossing. I was behind the President, hoping that someone with an umbrella would walk by in the background to add another element to the photograph.
The President sips a cup of tea while talking on the phone in the Oval Office with President Xi Jinping of China. I converted the digital file to black and white to accentuate the three presidential aides in the foreground.
The President was visiting the Yad Vashem Holocaust History Museum with Israeli President Shimon Peres, flad travel volunteers news encompass Israeli Prime Minster Benjamin Netanyahu, flad travel volunteers news encompass and others. When the President asked a question about the cityscape in the background, the sunlight lit up his hands adding another dimension to this photograph.
Robby Novak, AKA Kid President , feigns a phone call at the Resolute Desk during his visit to see the President in the Oval Office. Kid President became flad travel volunteers news encompass a YouTube sensation and was invited to participate in the Easter Egg Roll at the White House.
The President hugs Sue Connors and Jane Dougherty, right, flad travel volunteers news encompass following his remarks at the Denver Police Academy in Denver, Colo. The women lost their sister, Mary Sherlach, in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings in Newtown, Conn.
The President talks with family members of victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings aboard Air Force One upon their arrival at Joint Base Andrews. The President invited the families to accompany flad travel volunteers news encompass him following his remarks in Newtown, Conn.
The President holds Chaplain (Captain) Emil Kapaun s Easter stole during a greet with Father Kapaun flad travel volunteers news encompass s family in the Oval Office, before posthumously awarding him the Medal of Honor. After being captured by the Chinese military in 1950, Father Kapaun was taken to a North Korean prison camp, where he later died but not before he held an Easter service and said prayers for his captors.
Gotta love the reaction of that young face as the President greeted members of the audience following a ceremony flad travel volunteers news encompass honoring the 2012 BCS National Champion University of Alabama Crimson Tide football team on the South Lawn of the White House.
The President was about to make a statement in the White House Briefing Room and noticed the photographs hanging on the wall in the Press Office were crooked. So he took matters into his own hands, straightening the pictures as Press Assistant Marie Aberger flad travel volunteers news encompass watched. Deputy Press Secretary works in his office in the background.
Four Presidents. One funny story. Presidents Carter, Clinton, Obama and Bush wait backstage to be introduced during flad travel volunteers news encompass the dedication flad travel volunteers news encompass of the George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum on the campus of Southern Methodist University in Dallas.
The President and First Lady attend a memorial service in Waco, Texas, for the firefighters flad travel volunteers news encompass and first responders who died at a fertilizer plant explosion the week before In West, Texas. A day that began with laughter at the Bush Presidential Library ended in tears as the Obamas also met privately with the families who lost loved ones.
Before his working dinner at the White House, the President escorted Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan flad travel volunteers news encompass of Turkey to the South Portico balcony and pointed out the Washington Monument (and Jefferson Memorial, which you can t see in this photo).
Graduates react in the pouring rain as the President delivered remarks during the commencement ceremony at Morehouse College in Atlanta, Ga. Officials from the college flad travel volunteers news encompass wanted the event to proceed outside because they did not have an indoor facility available for this many people.
Thelma Maxine Pippen McNair, mother of Denise McNair, whispers to the President after he signed H.R. 360, which provided for the presentation of a congressional gold medal to commemorate the lives of the four young African American victims of the bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, in September 1963. McNair flad travel volunteers news encompass s daughter was one of the victims.
The President and members of the White House staff look out the window of Air Force One to view tornado damage over Moore, Oklahoma. After landing at Tinker Air Base, the President did a walking tour of the damage and met with those affected.
The President congratulates New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie while playing the TouchDown Fever arcade game along the Point Pleasant boardwalk in Point Pleasant Beach, N.J. The President toured the boardwalk which had reopened following the devastation of Hurricane Sandy in 2012.
As part of their daily end-of-the-day wrap, the President and Chief of Staff Denis McDonough walk on the South Lawn of the White House. They usually walk on the South Drive but on this day they ventured to this corner of the 18-acre grounds.
flad travel volunteers news encompass The President sits with President Xi Jinping China on an inscribed redwood park bench at the Annenberg Retreat at Sunnylands in Rancho Mirage, Calif. The two leaders spent two days in bilateral talks at Sunnylands.
The President had invited departing staff member Adam Neufeld to the Oval Office for a farewell photograph. When the President flad travel volunteers news encompass picked up Neufeld s six-month-old daughter, she started grabbing his face.
Access for me at the G8 Summits is always dependent upon the host country. The Brits were very accommodating which enabled me to photograph this casual flad travel volunteers news encompass moment of the President with the other heads of state before a working dinner at Lough Erne Resort in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland.
The President and German Chancellor Angela Merkel listen to remarks by Berlin Mayor Klaus Wowereit at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin. The last time I had been here was in 1987 on the opposite site of the Gate when President Reagan had challenged flad travel volunteers news encompass Russian President flad travel volunteers news encompass Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down this wall.
A quiet moment inside Nelson Mandela s former flad travel volunteers news encompass prison cell as the President embraced Sasha while the Obama family was listening to Ahmed Kathrada recount his years spent imprisoned here on Robben Island in Cape Town, South Africa. Nelson Mandela flad travel volunteers news encompass was imprisoned for 27 years, initially in this prison cell. Kathrada was imprisoned at Robben Island for 18 years.
Thousands of people lined the streets flad travel volunteers news encompass as the President s motorcade makes its way to the State House in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. This could have been a dangerous flad travel volunteers news encompass situation as local security were unable to keep people back away from the speeding cars.
David Lienemann made this great frame as the Vice President talked with Commander Timothy Wilke, commanding officer of the U.S.S. Freedom, during flad travel volunteers news encompass a tactical flad travel volunteers news encompass team demonstration, on board the U.S.S. Freedom, at Changi Navy Base in Singapore.
flad travel volunteers news encompass The President talks with the six-year-old son of departing staff member David Vandivier just outside the Oval Office. The youngster had just inquired how old the President was going to be in a few days (the President s birthday is Aug. 4). 52, the President replied. Whoa! said the six-year-old.
You can t always predict what will happen even when the President has a pre-arranged lunch during a stop on his college affordability college tour. Here, during a lunch with college students, recent graduates and educators, a young child plays on the floor nearby at Magnolia s Deli Cafe in Rochester, N.Y.
Chuck Kennedy worked with the National Park Service to be able to photograph from this angle at the Lincoln Memorial as the President, flad travel volunteers news encompass First Lady, and former Presidents Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter walked to the stage during the ceremony for the 50th anniversary of the historic 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.
The President meets in the Situation Room with his national security advisors to discuss his decision to postpone a military strike against the Syrian government for a chemical flad travel volunteers news encompass weapons attack so he could first seek Congressional authorization.
I try to keep overview and scene setters in mind while documenting this Presidency, hence this photograph of delegation members walking towards the bilateral pavilion at Konstantinovsky Palace during the G20 Summit in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
I loved the look Alanah Poullard flad travel volunteers news encompass s face as the President wrote a school excuse note for the five-year-old, while visiting with Wounded Warriors and their families in the East Room during their tour of the White House. Alanah asked for a note to show her kindergarten teacher so she wouldn flad travel volunteers news encompass t get in trouble for missing a school day.
A Ford truck was stationed nearby the podium while the President delivered remarks on the economy at the Ford Kansas City Stamping Plant in Liberty, Missouri. After the speech, I positioned myself near the truck guessing that the President might lean over the hood of the truck to shake hands with Ford employees. Instead he opened the passenger door and slid over to the driver s seat so he could get even closer t