Obama Gets Busy

Day One

Updated Apr. 25, 2017 4:23PM EDT / Published Jan. 21, 2009 8:37AM EST

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President Obama wasted no time getting started on his first day in office. This morning, the new administration drafted an executive order to close the Guantanamo Bay detention facility within a year. Obama also announced plans to freeze salaries for about a hundred White House employees who make over $100,000 annually. "Families are tightening their belts, and so should Washington," he said in a statement. The president took time to call four Middle East leaders--President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert of Israel, King Abdullah of Jordan, and President Mahmoud Abbas of the Palestinian Authority--to discuss progress in the region.

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Obama Gets Busy

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