The first lecture of the 2011/2012 session was to do with very modern history in the making. Professor Verney described Obamas early life (born in 1961) and his forceful movement into the political scene.
President Obama is a graduate of Harvard Law school and worked as a civil rights attorney and taught Constitutional Law at Chicago Law School . He served 3 terms in the Illinois Senate and won election to the US Senate in 2004. His Presidential campaign began in 2007 and in 2008 defeated Republican canditate John McCain and was inaugurated as President on 20/01/2009.
On the international front the President withdrew troops from Iraq and increased troop levels in Afghanistan and signed up to the’New Start’ arms control treaty with Russia and of course sanctioned the Bin Laden assasination. He has signalled his intention to seek re-election
The lecture covered a wide range of topics including details of legislation he signed in both in home and foreign policy, the writer struggled a little to ‘keep up’.
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