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Black History: A Salute To The 44th President Barack Obama
•Ended the War in Iraq:
Ordered all U.S. military forces out of the country. Last troops left on December 18, 2011.
• Began Drawdown of War in Afghanistan
From a peak of 101,000 troops in June 2011, U.S. forces were down to 91,000 by March of 2012, with 23,000 slated to leave by the end of summer 2012.
• Eliminated Osama Bin Laden
In 2011, ordered special forces raid of secret compound in Ab- bottabad, Pakistan, in which the terrorist leader was killed and a trove of al-Qaeda documents was discovered.
Inside the Situation Room, President Obama watches as special forces kill Osama Bin Laden.
• Recapitalized Banks
In the midst of financial crisis, ap-proved controversial Treasury Department plan to lure private capital into the country’s largest banks via “stress tests” of their balance sheets and a public-private fund to buy their “toxic” as-sets. Got banks back on their feet at es- sentially zero cost to the government
• Repealed “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”
Ended 1990s-era re-striction and formalized new policy allow- ing gays and lesbians to serve openly in the military for the first time.
U.S. President Barack Obama, surrounded by lawmakers and bill supporters, signs into law the Don't Ask, Don't Tell Repeal Act of 2010, which will allow openly gay, lesbian, or bi-sexual soldiers to serve in the military, in a signing ceremony at the Department of the In-terior in Washington on December 22, 2010.
• President Obama also appointed Supreme Court Jus- tices Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor, the latter of whom be- came the first His- panic American on the Supreme Court.
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