Timeline of The Presidency of Barack Obama (2009) - April

April

  • April 1 – Obama meets British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, Russian President Dmitri Medvedev, Chinese President Hu Jintao, and Queen Elizabeth II.
  • April 2 – The G-20 summit begins in London, England. The President announces Robert Groves to be his candidate for director of The Census Bureau
  • April 3 – Obama meets French President Nicolas Sarkozy and holds a town hall meeting with French and German students.
  • April 3–4 – Obama attends the two-day NATO summit in Strasbourg, France, and Kehl and Baden-Baden, Germany.
  • April 5 – Obama meets with Czech President Václav Klaus and Prime Minister Mirek Topolánek. He gives a thoughtful speech on nuclear proliferation disarmament to a public crowd in Prague. Earlier the North Korean government had launched a long-range multi-stage rocket.
  • April 6–7 – Obama visits Istanbul and Ankara, Turkey, including a meeting at the Alliance of Civilizations forum.
  • April 7 – Obama finishes his trip in Istanbul, including a town hall meeting, and makes a surprise visit to Baghdad, Iraq (his first as president), where he meets with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki.
  • April 9 – In a presidential first, Obama hosts a White House Seder for the second night of Passover.
  • April 12 – Richard Phillips, captured by pirates in the Maersk Alabama hijacking, is freed by Navy Seals after Obama approves military action.
  • April 13 – Obama signs a presidential memorandum eliminating limits on Cuban-Americans governing family visits and remittances sent to the island.
  • April 14 – The Philadelphia Phillies, scheduled to meet with Obama after winning the 2008 World Series, postpone their meeting after the death of Phillies announcer Harry Kalas. Obama gives a speech on his economic policies at Georgetown University.
  • April 16 – Four memos are released by the Justice Department on enhanced interrogation techniques used by the CIA on Al Qaeda suspects.
  • April 16–17 – Obama visits Mexico to meet with President Felipe Calderón. President Obama states the US is a "full partner" with Mexico in its fight against the Mexican drug cartels.
  • April 17–19 – Obama attends the 5th Summit of the Americas in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago.
  • April 21 – Obama meets with King Abdullah II of Jordan in a one-on-one meeting in the White House. Obama also signs the Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act into law. Obama also speaks to CIA staff
  • April 23 – Obama speaks at a Holocaust remembrance ceremony at the capitol sponsored by the National Holocaust Museum.
  • April 27 – Obama addresses the National Academy of Sciences and announces that more than 3 percent of the GDP will be devoted to research and development. He also announces a doubling of the budgets of NSF and NIST, and a goal of reducing carbon pollution by more than 80 percent by 2050.
  • April 28 – The United States Senate confirms Kathleen Sebelius, former governor of Kansas, as United States Secretary of Health and Human Services.
  • April 29 – Obama meets the Media in a primetime news conference, to discuss the first 100 days of his presidency, and the plans already implemented that will continue into the rest of his term.

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