September
- September 8 – After a week of vacation at the White House, Obama speaks at Wakefield High School in Arlington, Virginia to promote education.
- September 9 – President Obama outlines his healthcare proposal in a speech to a joint session of Congress, amidst controversy in regards to a public option, illegal immigrant's access to healthcare and "death panels".
- September 10 – President Barack Obama meets with Prince General Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan of Abu Dhabi in the Oval Office.
- September 11 – President Barack Obama addresses family members and friends who lost loved ones on September 11, 2001, in the September 11 attacks, at The Pentagon. Obama and the First Lady also meet with the Crown Prince Willem-Alexander and Princess Máxima of the Netherlands in the Yellow Oval Room of the White House.
- September 12 – Barack Obama holds a rally in Minneapolis, Minnesota at the Target Center to continue speaking about his healthcare reform.
- September 14 – President Obama speaks about the financial crisis at Federal Hall on Wall Street in New York City.
- September 15 – President Barack Obama visits the General Motors Lordstown Assembly Plant in Warren, Ohio. Obama also addresses the AFL-CIO at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
- September 16 – President Barack Obama delivers remarks during a U.S. Olympians youth sporting event on the South Lawn of the White House, to promote Chicago's bid for the 2016 Summer Olympics.
- September 17 – President Obama posthumously awards Sergeant First Class Jared C. Monti the Medal of Honor in the East Room, at the White House. Barack Obama then speaks at the University of Maryland to deliver remarks and hold a healthcare rally. Obama also hosts a screening of The National Parks: America's Best Idea along with Ken Burns, Dayton Duncan and Secretary of Interior Ken Salazar.
- September 21 – President Obama appears on the Late Show with David Letterman, for his second late night talk show interview since becoming president.
- September 22 – President Barack Obama addresses the Climate Change Summit at the United Nations General Assembly in New York.
- September 23 – Obama gives his first speech to the United Nations General Assembly. Obama also speaks as a guest speaker at the Clinton Global Initiative in New York City.
- September 24 – In a first for an American president, Obama chairs a U.N. Security Council summit dedicated to nuclear disarmament and proliferation.
- September 25 – While at the G-20 Pittsburgh summit, Obama and the leaders of France and the UK make a public statement accusing Iran of constructing a secret nuclear facility near Qom.
- September 29 – President Obama meets with NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen in the Oval Office for an expanded delegation meeting.
- September 30 – Obama tours the National Institute of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, along with NIH Director Francis Collins and Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius.
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