The release of the White House photo showing President Barack Obama shooting skeet at Camp David comes two days before Obama travels to Minneapolis to promote his agenda for curbing gun violence, following the Dec. 14 shootings of 20...
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President Barack Obama departs the White House on Feb. 4, 2013 to Minneapolis to tout his gun control proposals.
Obama’s $5,000 Shotgun Real McCoy, Wrong Question in Gun Control Debate?
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President Barack Obama shoots clay targets with a shotgun on the range on Aug. 4, 2012 at Camp David, Maryland.
Obama Skeet-Shooting: Picture-Proof — JFK-Styled Video Next?
The proof is in the picture. After President Barack Obama allowed in a recent interview that he and friends shoot skeet “all the time” up at Camp David, cynics started to question why there are no photos of the...
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Skeet shooting
More on Obama’s Skeet-Shooting: Camp David for Fun, Not Photos
A question came up at the White House today: Just how much skeet shooting does President Barack Obama do at Camp David? He said in an interview with The New Republic released over the weekend that he and friends go...
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Camp David
President John F. Kennedy shot skeet at Camp David, shown here with David Niven and The Washington Post's Ben Bradlee in 1963. Camp David Photo.President John F. Kennedy shot skeet at Camp David, shown here with David Niven and The Washington Post's Ben Bradlee in 1963.
Obama Shoots Skeet at Camp David — and Has Advice for the NCAA
President Barack Obama, seeking a ban on assault weapons, says he shoots skeet “all the time” at Camp David. Obama told The New Republic magazine in an interview that at the presidential retreat in Maryland’s wooded Catoctin Mountains “we do...
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President Barack Obama walking from Marine One to the Residence at the White House on Aug. 5, 2012, returning from Camp David where he spent his birthday.
Obama: `I’m Feeling Older’
It’s been a short weekend at Camp David. President Barack Obama, who turned 51 yesterday, put in a full morning and early afternoon at the golf course at Andrews Air Force Base yesterday before flying to Camp David after 4...
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Prime Minister David Cameron of the United Kingdom, President Barack Obama, Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany, Jose Manuel Barroso, President of the European Commission, and others watch the overtime shootout of the Chelsea vs. Bayern Munich Champions League final in the Laurel Cabin conference room during the G8 Summit on May 19, 2012 at Camp David, Maryland.
White House Tries to Blunt Euro Debt Crisis with Soccer, Cake
Anyone up for a run? Cake? How about watching some football (even if it’s the European kind)? The White House is taking great pains to show that the G-8 summit at Camp David this weekend is uniquely informal and frank....
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Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany and President Barack Obama at the G8 Summit in Camp David.
Merkel Shrugs at Obama’s Camp David Greeting
As President Obama stood beneath an oak tree to greet world leaders at the start of the G-8 summit at Camp David, the heavily guarded presidential retreat in Maryland, one leader refused to smile for the cameras. The arrival ceremony is...
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President Barak Obama, Vice President Joe Biden and Claire Duncan, daughter Education Secretary Arne Duncan, watch a tennis match at Camp David.
No Bunk Beds at Camp David
President Barack Obama’s decision to host the G-8 leaders at Camp David this weekend marks a milestone for the presidential retreat in Maryland’s Catoctin Mountains. It will be the biggest gathering of heads of state there in history. So who sleeps where?...
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