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							<title><![CDATA[Focus on Petraeus, Taxes as Obama Faces Media]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 14 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Helene Cooper</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON &mdash; President Obama on Wednesday declared that he would not extend tax cuts at upper income levels but that Congress should quickly do so for the middle class, and he praised David H. Petraeus&rsquo;s record while saying that national security had not been compromised...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama &amp; Romney Bristle From the Start]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/23/us/politics/obama-and-romney-meet-in-foreign-policy-debate.html?pagewanted=all</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 23 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Helene Cooper</author>
							<description><![CDATA[BOCA RATON, Fla. &mdash; President Obama and Mitt Romney wrapped up a series of defining debates on Monday night with a bristling exchange over America&rsquo;s place in the world as each sought to portray the other as an unreliable commander in chief in a dangerous era.Follow along with...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[In Iowa, Obama Hits Back on Medicare]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/16/us/politics/obama-and-ryan-talk-health-care-at-campaign-stops.html?ref=todayspaper</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 16 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Helene Cooper</author>
							<description><![CDATA[With Mitt Romney on the attack on Medicare, President Obama personally engaged in the fight on Wednesday as the popular public health program catapulted to the top of the presidential campaign agenda.On the last day of his three-day bus tour of Iowa, sensing an opening to paint a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Bipartisan Agreement: Obama Isn't Schmoozing]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/29/us/politics/obama-gains-reputation-as-distant-in-washington.html?_r=1&amp;adxnnl=1&amp;ref=todayspaper&amp;adxnnlx=1325164307-8CWtkkJ7lV5D5SgRgQ6Oeg</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Helene Cooper</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Air Force One had just landed in Manchester, N.H., on a brisk Tuesday morning last month when President Obama made an admission to Valerie B. Jarrett, his close friend and senior adviser.&ldquo;I just called Reggie,&rdquo; Mr. Obama said. It was his first domestic trip without Reggie...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama Presses Israel to Make &quot;Hard Choices&quot;]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/23/world/middleeast/23aipac.html?ref=todayspaper</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 23 May 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Helene Cooper</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Obama struck back at Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel in a speech to a pro-Israel lobbying group on Sunday, defending his stance that talks over a Palestinian state should be focused on Israel&#194;&#146;s pre-1967 borders, along with negotiated land swaps, and challenging...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Sudden Split Recasts U.S. Foreign Policy]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/03/world/middleeast/03diplomacy.html?hp</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 03 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Helene Cooper</author>
							<description><![CDATA[After days of delicate public and private diplomacy, the United States openly broke with its most stalwart ally in the Arab world on Wednesday, as the Obama administration strongly condemned violence by allies of President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt against protesters and called on him to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama Tries Charm Offensive on Group of Top Execs]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/16/business/16obama.html?ref=todayspaper</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 16 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Helene Cooper</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Forget about the sharp critiques that President Obama leveled at Wall Street and corporate America during his first two years in office.During more than four hours of meetings on Wednesday, Mr. Obama urged a  group of chief executives to begin hiring and investing again as he  wooed...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why China Won't Act Like the U.S.]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/28/weekinreview/28cooper.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 28 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Helene Cooper</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON &#194;&#151; A fundamental tenet of foreign policy says that nations  will seldom voluntarily act against what they have determined, for  whatever reason, to be their own national interest.Somebody needs to tell that to the United States when it comes to China, many foreign policy...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama Tries to Shore Up the Party Base]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/21/us/politics/21obama.html?ref=politics</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 21 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Helene Cooper</author>
							<description><![CDATA[PORTLAND, Ore. - President Obama began his four-day campaign swing on Wednesday to fortify a Democratic firewall on the West Coast, telling a crowded rally here to "defy the conventional wisdom just like you did in 2008,&rdquo; when Oregon overwhelmingly backed him for president.With two...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama Takes Aim at Republicans]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/19/us/politics/19obama.html?ref=politics</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 19 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Helene Cooper</author>
							<description><![CDATA[MIAMI &mdash; President Obama threw his weight behind Democratic governors in the battleground states of Florida and Ohio on Wednesday, while leveling blistering critiques of Republican policies that he said would put the country in further economic peril.On a three-day, five-state...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Leaks Add to Pressure on WH Over Strategy]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/27/world/asia/27wikileaks.html?hp</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Helene Cooper</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON  &mdash;  The White House  sought to reassert control over the public debate on the Afghanistan war on Monday as political reaction to the disclosure of a six-year archive of classified military documents increased the pressure on President Obama to defend his war strategy.On...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Washington Asks: What to Do About Israel?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/06/weekinreview/06cooper.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Helene Cooper</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON &mdash; Some topics are so inflammatory that they are never discussed without first inserting a number of caveats. And so,  when Anthony Cordesman, a foreign policy dignitary in this town&rsquo;s think tank circuit, dropped an article on Wednesday headlined &ldquo;Israel as a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama Says Health Overhaul Should Trump Politics]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/09/health/policy/09health.html?hp</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Helene Cooper</author>
							<description><![CDATA[GLENSIDE, Pa.   &mdash; President Obama pushed his health care overhaul campaign into high gear on Monday, telling a a crowd of students here that insurance premiums will keep rising rapidly if Congress does not intervene and pass a health care bill.		President Barack Obama told a crowd...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Dueling Vice Presidents Trade Barbs]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/15/us/politics/15veeps.html?ref=todayspaper</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Helene Cooper</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON &#151; Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. and former Vice President Dick Cheney engaged in the latest round of their war of words on Sunday in dueling television appearances, in which each offered sharply different positions on national security and forceful defenses of their...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Beneath Veneer, China Pushes Back on Obama]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/18/world/asia/18prexy.html?hp</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Helene Cooper</author>
							<description><![CDATA[BEIJING &#151; President Obama made a big effort Tuesday at presenting his first visit to China as a step forward in America&#8217;s evolving relationship with its fastest rising competitor.  But what emerged after six hours of meetings, two dinners, and a stilted 30-minute presentation...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Some Obama Enemies Made Totally of Straw]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/24/us/politics/24straw.html?ref=todayspaper</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Helene Cooper</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON &#151; Democrats often complained about President George W. Bush&#8217;s frequent use of a rhetorical device as old as rhetoric itself: creating the illusion of refuting an opponent&#8217;s argument by mischaracterizing it and then knocking down that mischaracterization. 
The...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Is Obama Trying to Muzzle His Press Corps?]]></title>
							<link>http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/04/01/were-not-keeping-score-but/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Helene Cooper</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama Will Face a Defiant World on Foreign Visit]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/29/washington/29global.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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							<title><![CDATA[Dreaming of Splitting the Taliban]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/08/weekinreview/08COOPER.html?ref=weekinreview</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 08 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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							<title><![CDATA[South Asia's Deadly Dominoes]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/07/weekinreview/07cooper.html?hp</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 07 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Helene Cooper</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[The West Faces Tough Choices]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/12/world/europe/12diplo.html?hp</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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