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Biden, John McCain, Vietnam
Sep 11, 2023

Biden highlights business deals, pays respects at John McCain memorial to wrap up Vietnam visit

President Joe Biden closed a visit to Vietnam on Monday by spotlighting new business deals and partnerships between the two countries and paying respects at a memorial honoring his late friend and colleague Sen. John McCain, who endured a lengthy imprisonment in Hanoi during the Vietnam War.

Apr 11, 2016

Lessons learned on press restrictions from my home country

I couldn’t help but think about my former country’s experience when House Speaker David Gowan revoked reporters’ access to the chamber’s floor, a privilege journalists have enjoyed for at least four decades.

President Barack Obama gestures as he speaks, as he Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki, right, and Vice President Joe Biden, left, welcome the Wounded Warrior Project’s Soldier Ride to the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Thursday, April 17, 2014, in celebration of the seventh annual Soldier Ride. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
Apr 28, 2014

Obama: US takes VA neglect claim ‘very seriously’

President Barack Obama says the U.S. will get to the bottom of whether veterans were denied help they needed at a VA hospital in Arizona.

Nov 12, 2013

Learning life’s lessons in a disaster-prone paradise

“We’re OK,” read the message from my brother, Richard, at 4 p.m. on Nov.7. The Philippines is 15 hours ahead, so it was already Friday there, and Typhoon Haiyan had begun its destructive hopscotching across the islands.

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