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Barack Hussein Obama Jr. (Barack Hussein Obama II). Born August 4, 1961 in Honolulu (Hawaii, USA). 44th President of the United States of America. Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize 2009. Before being elected president, he was a federal senator from Illinois. Re-elected for a second term in 2012.

The first African American to be nominated for the presidency of the United States by one of the two largest parties, and the first black president in the national history of heads of state, as well as a president with an African surname and a middle name of Arabic etymological origin.

Obama is a mulatto, but, unlike most black Americans, not a descendant of slaves, but the son of a student from Kenya and a white American, Stanley Ann Dunham.

A graduate of Columbia University and Harvard Law School, where he was also the first ever African American editor of the university's Harvard Law Review. Obama has also worked as a community organizer and civil rights attorney.

He taught constitutional law at the Chicago Law Institute from 1992 to 2004 and was simultaneously elected to the Illinois Senate three times between 1997 and 2004.

After failing to run for the US House of Representatives in 2000, he ran for the US Senate in January 2003. After winning the March 2004 primary, Obama delivered the keynote speech at the July 2004 Democratic National Convention.

He was elected to the Senate in November 2004 with 70% of the vote.

As a member of the 109th Democratic Minority in Congress, he helped create laws to regulate conventional weapons and increase transparency in the use of the state budget. He also made official trips to Eastern Europe (including Russia), the Middle East and Africa.

While serving in the 110th Congress, he helped create laws related to election fraud, lobbying, climate change, nuclear terrorism, and demobilized US military personnel.

Obama announced his desire to run for president in February 2007, and in the 2008 presidential primaries at the Democratic National Convention, he was officially nominated by the Democratic Party as the presidential candidate along with the vice presidential candidate, Delaware Senator Joseph Biden.

In the 2008 presidential election, Obama edged out Republican candidate John McCain with 52.9% of the popular vote and 365 votes in the Electoral College to McCain's 45.7% and 173.

Barack Obama - curiosities

October 9, 2009 received the Nobel Peace Prize with the wording "for extraordinary efforts in strengthening international diplomacy and cooperation between people."

In the 2012 presidential election, Obama edged out Republican candidate Mitt Romney with 51.1% of the popular vote and 332 votes in the Electoral College to Romney's 47.2% and 206.

Barack Obama was born in Honolulu, state of Hawaii. His parents met in 1960 while studying at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. At the same time, during the US election campaign, rumors circulated that Obama was born outside the US, which would deprive him of the right to be elected to the presidency.

On March 1, 2012, Arizona Sheriff Joseph Arpaio announced that Barack Obama's birth certificate may be a computer generated forgery; he made a similar statement with respect to the military registration form filled out by the future president in 1980.

Father - Barack Hussein Obama - Sr. (1936-1982) - Kenyan, the son of a healer from the Luo people. The missionary school paid for his studies in Nairobi and sent him to study econometrics at the University of Hawaii, where he organized the Association of Foreign Students and became the best in his class.

Mother - Stanley Ann Dunham (1942-1995) - was born at a military base in Kansas in a Christian American family but later became an agnostic. She is of English, Scottish, Irish and German descent. Through her mother, Madeleine Lee Payne, Barack Obama also has Cherokee ancestry. The surname Dunham itself belongs to the American aristocracy and comes from the first settler Richard Singleteri and his son Jonathan (1639 / 40-1724), who, for reasons not entirely clear, changed his surname to Dunham. A family legend traces him to the owners of Dunham Castle in Scotland, who was allegedly criminally disinherited by relatives in infancy.

Stanley Ann was studying anthropology at the University of Hawaii when she met Obama Sr. Grandma Madeleine Lee raised Obama for a long time, they were very attached to each other. Obama interrupted his presidential campaign to visit her in the hospital. Madeleine Lee Payne Dunham passed away on November 2, 2008.

Obama Sr.'s father and Dunham's parents were against the marriage, but they married on February 2, 1961. Two years after Barack's birth, his father went to continue his studies at Harvard, but Dunham and Obama Jr. soon returned to Hawaii. Barack's parents divorced in January 1964.

While studying at Harvard University, Obama Sr. met the American teacher Ruth Nidesand, with whom, after graduating from his studies in the United States, he left for Kenya. This was his third marriage, which produced two children. Upon his return to Kenya, he worked for an oil company, and then received a position as an economist in the government apparatus. He saw his son for the last time when he was 10 years old. In Kenya, Obama Sr. was in a car accident, as a result of which he lost both legs, and later died in another car accident.

Soon after the divorce, the mother met another foreign student, the Indonesian Lolo Sutoro, married him, and in 1967 left with him and little Barak for Jakarta. From this marriage, Barak had a half-sister, Maya. Barak's mother died of ovarian cancer in 1995.

Barack Obama as a child

In Jakarta, Obama Jr. studied at a public school from the age of 6 to 10. After that, he returned to Honolulu, where he lived with his mother's parents until graduating in 1979 from the prestigious Panahow Private School.

He described the memories of his childhood in his book "My Father's Dreams". As an adult, he admitted to smoking marijuana, taking cocaine and alcohol at school, which he told voters at the Presidential Campaign Civic Forum on August 16, 2008 and described as his lowest moral fall.

After high school, he attended Western College in Los Angeles for two years before transferring to Columbia University, where he majored in international relations. By the time he received his bachelor's degree in 1983, Obama had already worked at the International Business Corporation and the New York Research Center.

In 1985, after moving to Chicago, he began working as a community organizer in disadvantaged areas of the city. In 1988, Obama entered Harvard Law School, where in 1990 he became the first-ever African-American editor of the university's Harvard Law Review.

Obama is left-handed.

Obama's height is 185 cm.

In 1996, he was elected to the Illinois State Senate.

He served as a senator from 1997 to 2004, representing the US Democratic Party. He was re-elected twice: in 1998 and 2002. As a senator, he collaborated with both Democrats and Republicans: he worked with representatives of both parties on programs to support low-income families through tax cuts, acted as a supporter of the development of preschool education, and supported measures to tighten control over the work of investigative bodies.

In 2000, he attempted to run for the U.S. House of Representatives, but lost the primary to incumbent black congressman Bobby Rush.

In 2004, he entered the fight for a nomination for one of the seats from the state of Illinois in the US Senate. He won a convincing victory over six opponents in the primaries.

sworn in as a U.S. Senator on January 4, 2005, becoming the 5th African-American U.S. Senator in the country's history.

At the end of August 2005, as part of the Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction program, he flew to Russia to inspect Russian nuclear facilities together with Republican Senator Richard Lugar.

During the trip on August 28, an incident occurred during a departure at Perm's Bolshoye Savino airport: the senators were detained for three hours due to their refusal to "follow the requirements of the border guards" to inspect the aircraft, which had diplomatic immunity. Later, the Russian Foreign Ministry expressed regret "in connection with the misunderstanding that had arisen and the inconvenience caused to the senators." In his book, Obama referred to the incident as one of the moments during his journey "that were reminiscent of Cold War days."

As a senator, he repeatedly visited the White House at the invitation of President George W. Bush.

The non-partisan Congressional Quarterly described him as a "loyal Democrat" based on an analysis of all Senate votes from 2005-2007. The National Journal ranked him as the "most liberal" senator based on an assessment of select votes during 2007.

In 2008, Congress.org ranked him the 11th most powerful senator.

On February 10, 2007, in front of the old Illinois State Capitol in Springfield, Obama announced his candidacy for the presidency of the United States. The place had a symbolic character, since it was there that Abraham Lincoln delivered the historic speech "A House Divided" in 1858. Throughout the campaign, Obama advocated a quick end to the Iraq War, energy independence, and universal health care. His campaign slogans are "Change we can believe in" and "Yes we can!" (The song Yes We Can, recorded by a number of well-known artists using words from Obama's campaign speech, received great fame and a Webby Award).

During the first half of 2007, the Obama campaign raised $58 million. Small donations (less than $200) were 16.4 million of that amount. This number set a record for fundraising by a presidential campaign in the first six months of the calendar year leading up to the election. The size of the small part of the donation was also quite significant.

In January 2008, the campaign set another record with $36.8 million, the most ever raised by a presidential candidate in a Democratic primary.

Obama is the first and, as of 2012, the only US presidential candidate to withdraw from public campaign funding. On November 4, 2008, Obama secured the support of 338 out of 538 electors with the required 270 votes, which meant he came to power on January 20, 2009. At the same time, voter turnout reached a record - 64%.

On January 22, 2009, he signed an order to close the prison for terrorist suspects at the American military base in Guantanamo (Cuba) within a year.

On January 29, the US Congress supported the US President's stimulus plan. The plan calls for an $819 billion injection. On February 10, the US Senate approved Obama's $838 billion emergency bailout plan. When implementing the plan, up to 4 million new jobs should be created in 2 years. The plan also contains provisions on direct investment in the healthcare, energy, and education sectors.

On February 17, Barack Obama sent an additional 17,000 troops to Afghanistan, and signed an anti-crisis plan for $787 billion adopted by the US Congress in Denver.

On July 6-8, Barack Obama made an official working visit to Moscow. During the visit, bilateral agreements were signed, including on the transit of US military cargo to Afghanistan through Russia.

October 9, 2009 received the Nobel Peace Prize. Members of the Nobel Committee considered Obama's efforts "in strengthening international diplomacy and cooperation between people" worthy of the award. Obama became the third US President, after Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson, to receive the Nobel Peace Prize during his tenure (it was also awarded to former President Jimmy Carter).

According to Obama himself, he has not yet earned this award. According to many experts, Obama received the award in large part due to his pledge to reduce nuclear arsenals in early 2009.

In 2010, Obama, despite opposition from Republicans, secured the passage of a health care reform bill.

In 2011, the US military, on the orders of Obama, participated in the NATO intervention in Libya.

On April 4, 2011, Barack Obama confirmed his desire to run for a second presidential term, began raising money for the election campaign and announced the start of the presidential race.

Obama's rival was Republican Mitt Romney. The intrigue of the elections persisted until the last moment. As a result, Obama received a noticeable advantage in electors (303 versus 206 for Romney), but in general he was supported by about half of the voters.

Barack Obama Personal Life:

Since 1992, Barack Obama has been married to Michelle Robinson Obama (born January 17, 1964), a practicing lawyer. They have two daughters, Malia Ann (born 1998) and Natasha ("Sasha"; born 2001).

Barack Obama and Michelle Obama

Barack and Michelle Obama with children

Americans who love statistical calculations have calculated that in the presidential elections in the last hundred years, with a very high degree of probability, the candidate who turned out to be ... heavier and taller than his contender won at the time of voting.

Over the past 100 years, twenty-six presidential couples have been presented to the voters' choice, and only seven times the principle of "the heaviest" has not triumphed. In other cases, the White House was visited by someone who was "hungry". In addition, only five times in history, Americans have elected a shorter one!

Based on this principle, the famous basketball player Shaquille O'Neal with a weight of 147 kilos and a height of 216 centimeters would be an ideal candidate for the US presidency. Only our boxer Nikolai Valuev (149 kilos, 213 cm) could fight him on equal terms, but he was born in Russia and does not have the right to run.

From this point of view, it is not surprising that 104-kilogram (!) Bill Clinton twice left behind his lighter rivals. But George W. Bush (183 cm, 86 kg) twice managed to perform a miracle: beat taller opponents - first Al Gore (185 cm, 88 kg), and then John Kerry (193 cm, 84 kg). But on the other hand, this principle was preserved during the victory of the first black candidate Barack Obama (185 cm, 82 kg) over John McCain (170 cm, 75 kg). Moreover, looking at the list of US presidents, one can easily determine that McCain had no chance of success. The United States has never had a head below 177 centimeters in the last hundred years.

By the way, on the day of his inauguration, Obama will be 48 years and 5 months old. This is a young age for the President of the United States, but Obama will not be the youngest in this post. Theodore Roosevelt became president at 42 years and 10 months, John F. Kennedy at 43 years and 7 months, Bill Clinton at 46 years and 5 months, Ulysses Grant at 46 years and 10 months.

RECORDS IN THE WHITE HOUSE

Jimmy Carter (1977 - 1981) 73 kg (177 cm)

Woodrow Wilson (1913 - 1921) 77 kg (185 cm)

Calvin Coolidge (1923 - 1929) 77 kg (178 cm)

Richard Nixon (1969 - 1974) 78 kg (182 cm)

Dwight Eisenhower (1953 - 1961) 78 kg (179 cm)

John Kennedy (1961 - 1963) 79 kg (183 cm)

Barack Obama (2009 - ?) 82 kg (185 cm)

Ronald Reagan (1981 - 1989) 84 kg (185 cm)

Herbert Hoover (1929 - 1933) 84 kg (180 cm)

Franklin Roosevelt (1933 - 1945) 85 kg (189 cm)

George Bush Jr. (2001 - 2009) 86 kg (183 cm)

George W. Bush (1989 - 1993) 88 kg (187 cm)

Gerald Ford (1974 - 1977) 88 kg (183 cm)

Harry Truman (1945 - 1953) 91 kg (185 cm)

Theodore Roosevelt (1901 - 1909) 91 kg (178 cm)

Lyndon Johnson (1963 - 1969) 91 kg (191 cm)

Bill Clinton (1993 - 2001) 104 kg (187 cm)

Warren Harding (1921 - 1923) 109 kg (183 cm)

William Taft (1909 - 1913) 151 kg (183 cm)

The most difficult president in the history of the United States was William Taft, who ruled a hundred years before Obama. His weight reached 151 kilograms with an increase of 183 centimeters. In the White House, a particularly roomy bathtub had to be installed especially for him, and in official portraits Taft was depicted exclusively in an armchair to hide excessive fullness.

The tallest US president was Abraham Lincoln - 194 centimeters. And if you consider that he never parted with his high hat-cylinder, in which he carried papers and government documents, then to his contemporaries he probably seemed just a fire tower. Half a century before Lincoln, the shortest president of the United States, a contemporary of Napoleon, James Madison (154 cm), ruled. It is a pity that they did not have a chance to meet with Bonaparte, together they would have looked harmonious.

CHANGE OF POWER

Obama's grandma will attend his inauguration

As well as the Kenyan Boys Choir

January 20 at noon in the American capital will be the inauguration of the new US President Barack Obama. This ceremony has already aroused great interest among the public - 5 thousand tickets for the stands from the Capitol building to the White House (the solemn procession will take place along this route) were sold out in 1 minute from the moment they went on sale. Now the “extra ticket”, which initially cost $25, can only be obtained from resellers at a price that has grown tenfold.

But most of the guests - about 235 thousand people - will get to the inauguration by special invitations. These are mainly officials, congressmen, politicians, celebrities and members of foreign delegations. Among them will be Barack's grandmother Sarah Obama, who, at his request, was included in the Kenyan delegation. In addition, to please the fellow countryman, the local boys' choir will also come from Kenya, who will perform at a ball dedicated to the first black head of the United States.

However, even those invited to the inauguration will have to try to get directly to the scene. Indeed, the entrance to the ceremony is prohibited not only with knives, firearms and pyrotechnics, which is quite logical, but also with thermoses, laser pointers, backpacks, suitcases, bags. In addition, umbrellas were also banned, which will not be allowed to be carried even if it rains. US intelligence agencies want to minimize the possibility of an assassination attempt on Obama, who continues to receive threats.

The "hero of the occasion" himself, together with his family, has already moved to Washington and is developing the surroundings of his new residence. So far, he settled opposite the White House in the Hay-Adams Hotel, occupying a "modest" apartment costing $ 6,000 per day. He will live there until January 15, and then he will move next door - the guest residence of the US government "Blair House", from where he will move to the White House on the day of his inauguration.

Nikita KRASNIKOV.

MEANWHILE

The tradition of every US president to call in the White House with his pet did not appear yesterday, and sometimes the heads of the states were very extravagant in their choice. Calvin Coolidge had two raccoons in the White House, although at first he tried to attach a lynx, a donkey, and even a pygmy hippopotamus to the household. Obviously, Coolidge wanted to "surpass" the sixth President of the United States, John Adams, who kept a crocodile in the bathroom of the White House. Harry Truman had a tame goat, she grazed right on the lawn in front of the White House. Against their background, Bill Clinton, who asked to create a personal website on the Internet for his cat Sox, looks rather banal. Spot the English Spaniel is the only dog ​​in history to live in the White House under two presidents at once - Bush Sr. and Bush Jr.

01/06/2011

Against the background of George W. Bush, Barack Obama is a rather ordinary figure. However, there are many interesting things in his biography.

1 . In 2006 it won a Grammy for Best Spoken Album.

2. In 2005, Obama and his wife bought a home in Chicago for over $1.5 million.

3. According to his wife Michelle Obama, Barack is very romantic, and often presents his wife with flowers.

4. Obama doesn't like ice cream since he worked at Baskin-Robbins when he was a teenager.

5. Likes to play Scrabble and poker.

6. Barack's father is Kenyan, his mother is of English, Scottish, Irish and German descent.

7. In his youth he tried drugs, marijuana and cocaine. According to him, he is not at all proud of this and considers it a mistake of youth.

8. Obama is the first US president since Eisenhower to smoke cigarettes. Quit smoking in March 2010 (officially announced in February 2011).

9. He was born in Honolulu, but when his parents divorced, he moved with his mother to Indonesia. There he first tasted dog meat, snakes, and fried grasshoppers.

10. At home every evening, Obama reads the book "Harry Potter" to his eldest daughter.

11. Obama's height is 187 cm. His wife's height is 180 cm.

12. The authorities of the Caribbean island nation of Antigua and Barbuda, after the victory of Barack Obama in the US presidential election, renamed their highest mountain in honor of Obama.

13. Obama is left-handed.

14. Obama's Caloplaca obamae lichen plant is named after Obama.

15. During an interview with CNBC at the White House, Obama killed a fly that interfered with him with his hand, commenting on this with the words: “It was not bad, huh? I did it."

16. Barack Obama starred in the MythBusters show on Discovery in an episode called "Archimedes' Sunbeams." He personally instructs Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman to double-check the ancient legend of how the ancient scientist Archimedes burned the Roman fleet with the help of sunlight passing through a system of mirrors.

17. In April 2011, a political scandal broke out involving Republican Marilyn Davenport, a member of the Orange County Party Central Committee. Davenport privately sent images of Obama as a chimpanzee to colleagues.

18. Barack Obama became a senator at 33.

19. About ten years ago, Obama published an autobiographical book, "Dreams from my father", which, in particular, admits that "during difficult times I used drugs."

20. According to media reports, Brad Pitt and Barack Obama are, in fact, relatives. Pitt and Obama are ninth-generation relatives, according to the New England Historical Genealogical Society. .

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Hello site readers! Today's article will not be very large, but I think it will be no less interesting for you. I decided to make a post about the growth of the presidents of Russia and the world, otherwise I haven’t written something about the growth of famous people for a long time. I'll tell you about the smallest presidents, about how some politicians try to hide their height, about the average height of US presidents and something else. Begin.

Good physical data may well help a politician to have a high position of prime minister or even president. When it comes to choosing a leader for the political arena of a country, people are often driven by primal instinct.

Political science doctor Gregg Murray and University of Texas graduate student David Schmitz, studying this issue, came to the conclusion that if a presidential candidate is tall, then he is much more likely to become head of government than short politicians. Exploring the political organization of ancient people, they found evidence that the strongest and largest man, an excellent warrior, often became the head of his tribe. The choice of the leader in great apes occurs according to the same principle.

Schmitz and Murray also conducted the following survey. They asked 467 students to describe the "ordinary citizen" and "ideal political leader." About 64% of those polled said that the height of the politicians of the nation should be slightly higher than the height of the average citizen. The students were then asked to rate their chances of success. It turned out that tall students were more confident in their victory. In the work of Schmitz and Murray it was said:

“Our research just showed that many people around the world, regardless of upbringing or culture, are more likely to choose people of high stature as leaders, rather than short or average. The high growth of the last US President Barack Obama confirms this. This black president, who is 185 cm tall, was ahead of John McCain, who is shorter than him by some 12 cm, in the presidential race.

Presidents: who is higher.

Some presidents and politicians deliberately try to hide their height. For example, attempts by Nicolas Sarkozy to appear taller (the growth of the President of France is 168 cm) led to a scandal. It turned out that for the so-called meetings with the people, people were chosen whose height was shorter than that of Sarkozy. The French media disseminated this news with might and main, and the opponents of the French president accused him of being dependent on the PR service. In turn, the administration of the French president considered the hype around this situation ridiculous and absurd. The fact that the President of France is a regular customer of various shoe stores for growth has long been known from the same press.

An interesting story also happened to Bush Jr., whose height, according to various sources, is 179-182 cm. The former American leader fired those members of his administration who were taller than him. The Weekly World News printed this strange exclusive with a hint of political nonsense: "Secretary of State Colin Powell and tall Secretary of Homeland Security Tom Ridge were too tall for Bush, so they resigned."

According to a survey conducted by the Associated Press, the majority of the population does not associate the professional qualities of a political leader with his height. However, small presidents and prime ministers of America and Europe received clear support from a small number of respondents. Among Germans, French and Canadians politicians of short stature are supported by 3.2 to 7.1% of the population. Not at all against the little ruler and 7.5% of Italians. The height of Silvio Berlusconi, by the way, is 171 cm and many times became the subject of ridicule of cartoonists.

As for the people of America, who are spoiled by tall presidents, there are much more opponents of short politicians. This is understandable, because of the 44 American presidents, only 8 were below average height. It is worth noting that the average height of US presidents at the moment is 178 cm. The smallest - the fourth president James Madison was 163 cm tall, and the tallest - Abraham Lincoln was 194 cm. From 1789 to 2008 in the United States, tall presidential candidates recruited an average of 58% of the vote.

The smallest presidents.

However, in Russia such a stereotype is apparently not popular. Vladimir Putin claims the title of the smallest president of the current in the world (Putin's height is 170 cm). Before him, this title, no doubt, belonged to Kim Jong Il, as well as Russian Dmitry Medvedev. Both are 162 cm tall. We add Nicolas Sarkozy to them and we get a list of the shortest presidents of our time.

One of the most famous, low-profile presidents in history was Benito Juarez. This is the President of Mexico, who served as the leader of his country 5 times, from 1867 to 1872. Juarez's height was 135 cm. Another equally famous short politician was the Austrian chancellor from 1932-1934. Engelbert Dollfuss with a height of about 150 cm. It is also worth adding the first Prime Minister of Israel, David Ben-Gurion, with a height of 152 cm, and the de facto leader of China in 1980 of the last century, Deng Xiaoping. Here you can also recall the President of the Palestinian National Authority and Nobel Peace Prize winner Yasser Arafat, whose height was 155 cm, about Nikita Khrushchev with a height of 158 cm, and the last emperor of Ethiopia, Haile Selassie I, with a height of 160 cm.

These are far from all the well-known low presidents; in any case, there are others, no less remarkable. Write in the comments if I forgot someone.

Well, probably, we will finish for today about the growth of Russian and world politicians. Thank you for your attention and see you soon on the pages of this site!

Sincerely, Vadim Dmitriev