{"id":27020,"date":"2012-12-20T04:26:45","date_gmt":"2012-12-20T04:26:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=27020"},"modified":"2012-12-20T04:26:45","modified_gmt":"2012-12-20T04:26:45","slug":"pete-souza%e2%80%99s-portrait-of-a-presidency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=27020","title":{"rendered":"Pete Souza\u2019s Portrait of a Presidency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/lightbox.time.com\/2012\/10\/08\/pete-souza-portrait-of-a-presidency\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pete Souza\u2019s Portrait of a Presidency<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lightbox.time.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Time LightBox<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.time.comv\" target=\"_blank\">Time Magazine<\/a><br \/>\n2012-10-08<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/lightbox.time.com\/author\/philbicker\/\" target=\"_blank\">Phil Bicker<\/a><\/strong>, Senior Photo Editor<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lightbox.time.com\/2012\/10\/08\/pete-souza-portrait-of-a-presidency\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/timethemoment.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/10\/10-p121612ps-0100.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<small>Pete Souza\/The White House<\/small><\/p>\n<p>The long view of history tends to be the judge of a presidency. As <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barack_Obama\" target=\"_blank\">President Obama<\/a> embarks on a second term in the Oval Office, it may still be too early to draw conclusions about his legacy as Commander in Chief. What we do know is that Obama\u2019s first term has been a historic one: the first African American to hold the county\u2019s highest office, Obama and his Administration have battled a recession, passed health care reform and legislation to end the military\u2019s \u201cDon\u2019t ask, don\u2019t tell\u201d policy, formally ended the war in Iraq and brought Osama bin Laden to justice.<\/p>\n<p>Through adversity and triumph, public victories and private setbacks, chief official White House photographer Pete Souza and his team of photographers have relentlessly documented the actions of the President, the First Lady and the Vice President since Obama took office in early 2009.<\/p>\n<p>As the President runs for a second term, LightBox asked Souza to reflect on his time photographing Obama and share an edit of his favorite images that he and his staff made during the President\u2019s first term; the photographs offer a fascinatingly candid insight into the life of the President while painting a portrait of Barack Obama the man, husband and father&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article and view the 125 photographs <a href=\"http:\/\/lightbox.time.com\/2012\/10\/08\/pete-souza-portrait-of-a-presidency\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pete Souza\u2019s Portrait of a Presidency Time LightBox Time Magazine 2012-10-08 Phil Bicker, Senior Photo Editor Pete Souza\/The White House The long view of history tends to be the judge of a presidency. As President Obama embarks on a second term in the Oval Office, it may still be too early to draw conclusions about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24,63,8,26],"tags":[10877,13126,147,13127,3521],"class_list":["post-27020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-arts","category-barack-obama","category-media-archive","category-politics","tag-pete-souza","tag-phil-bicker","tag-photography","tag-time-lightbox","tag-time-magazine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27020\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}