美英报刊阅读教程（第三版）Lesson1 Who We Are Now.pptVIP

Lesson 1 President Barack Obama Barack H. Obama is the 44th President of the United States. He was elected the 44th President of the United States on November 4, 2008, and sworn in on January 20, 2009. Obama was born in Hawaii on August 4, 1961. His father is from Kenya and his mother from Kansas. Obama worked his way through college with the help of scholarships and student loans, he went on to attend law school, where he became the first African-American president of the Harvard Law Review. After graduation, he returned to Chicago to help lead a voter registration