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US President Barack Obama won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for "his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacyand cooperation between peoples"

When President Barack Obama chuckled at his own acknowledgement of how unpopular the federal government's bailout of the automobile industry is, his interviewer asked the president if he is "punch drunk.''"I just wanna say that the only thing less popular than putting money into banks is putting money into the auto industry," Obama conceded. As CBS News' Steve Kroft noted in a 60 Minutes talk with Obama last night that just 18 percent of those surveyed support it, Obama said with a laugh: "It's not a high number.''"You're sitting here. And you are laughing,''

President Barack Obama has urged Americans to keep vigilance against terrorism after the failed terror attack on a US passenger plane last week.

Obama, who is currently on a Hawaii vacation, said Monday the latest attack was 'a serious reminder of the danger we face and the nature of those who threaten our homeland', Xinhua reported.

President Barack Obama took to Jay Leno's stage and compared life in Washington to "American Idol," where '"everybody's got an opinion.""Everybody is Simon Cowell," he said, referencing the sometimes acerbic judge on the hit Fox TV show. "Everybody's got an opinion. But that's part of what makes for a democracy. You know, it's contentious, people are hitting back."But he said that he thinks the American people understand that it "took us a while to get into this mess" and it will take a while to get out. "They are going to give us some time," he said.

Photo History of Barack Obama, Barack Obama photographed with his mother, Ann, during his childhood in Honolulu, Hawaii.

Here is the transcript of part one of President Obama's interview with "60 Minutes":STEVE KROFT:Were you surprised by the intensity of the reaction, and the hostility from the AIG bonus debacle?BARACK OBAMA: I wasn't surprised by it. Our team wasn't surprised by it. The one thing that-- I've tried to emphasize, though, throughout this week, and will continue to try to emphasize during the course of the next several months as we dig ourselves out of this-- the economic hole that we're in, is we can't govern out of anger.

Confronting misgivings, even in his own party, President Barack Obama mounted a stout defense of his blueprint to overhaul the economy Thursday, declaring the national crisis is "not as bad as we think" and his plans will speed recovery.Challenged to provide encouragement as the nation's "confidence builder in chief," Obama said Americans shouldn't be whipsawed by bursts of either bad or good news..

President Barack Obama plans to nominate Janet Yellen as vice chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, The Wall Street Journal reported, citing people familiar with the matter.

Few have been more marginalized and ignored by Washington for as long as Native Americans, our first Americans," Obama said in opening the White House Tribal Nations Conference

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