President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama greet veterans and their families on Veterans Day, in Arlington National Cemetery. Photograph by Michael Reynolds via Bloomberg

President Barack Obama has had a busy week, his first week since re-election.

The White House has produced its own version of “West Wing” to dramatize it.

There was that visit to Arlington National Cemetery for Veterans’ Day.

There was that news conference on Wednesday, his first since June, in which the president declared he has “one mandate…. a mandate to help middle class families and people who are trying to get into the middle class.”

And today, the president prepares to embark for Asia, including the first visit of an American president to Myanmar.

Interestingly, the video makes no mention of what Obama learned the first day after re-election: His CIA director, David Petraeus, had been caught having an extramarital affair in an FBI investigation of e-mails with his biographer, Paula Broadwell.

Or last Friday: His nominee for Supreme Allied Commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Europe, Marine Gen. John Allen, is under investigation for his correspondence with the woman whose complaint about e-mail harassment launched the investigation of Petraeus.

Or this week, the outbreak of armed confrontations between Hamas-ruled Gaza and Israeli.

The White House adviser explaining the president’s trip to Asia, though, does note that they are looking forward to some Thai food:

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President Barack Obama arrives in the East Room of the White House on Nov. 14, 2012, for his first post election day news conference. Photograph by Jacquelyn Martin/AP Photo

On Day One of his presidency, Republican Mitt Romney liked to say in his TV ads, he’d start taking care of all sorts of business. He promised an ambitious agenda, starting with the repeal of “Obama-care.”

On Day One after re-election, last Wednesday, President Barack Obama suddenly found a lot more on his plate than his own agenda for his second term.

That’s the day he learned that retired Army Gen. David Petraeus had a problem at the CIA: An FBI investigation of e-mail traffic uncovering an extramarital affair between Petraeus and his biographer, Paula Broadwell. Within days, he’d accept Petraeus’ resignation.

By Friday, he’d learn that his nominee for Supreme Allied Commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Europe, Marine Gen. John Allen, also had an e-mail problem, with the Defense Department’s inspector general investigating what the FBI had found in Allen’s e-correspondence with Jill Kelley, the Tampa socialite whose initial complaint of e-mail harassment initiated the FBI probe that ensnared Petraeus. The general maintains he has done nothing wrong, yet his confirmation hearing is on hold.

And now Israel is engaged in combat with Hamas in the Gaza Strip — Obama has been on the phone  this week with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (the leader who had gotten fairly cozy with Romney during the election campaign).

Asked at his news conference yesterday when he might schedule that meeting he suggested on Election Night that he would hold with Romney to discuss ways of working together, Obama said: “We haven’t scheduled something yet.”

“I think everybody forgets that the election was only a week ago,” the president said, adding with a laugh: “I know I’ve forgotten… I forgot on Wednesday.”

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