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President Barack Obama jokes with Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood before speaking to Republican lawmakers at the GOP House Issues Conference at the Renaissance Baltimore Harbor Place Hotel in Baltimore, Md., Jan. 29, 2010. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)

President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama greet Edith Childs, from Greenwood, S.C., in the Diplomatice Reception Room of the White House, during a holiday party, Dec. 4, 2009. Childs coined the campaign slogan "fired up, ready to go." (Official White House Photo by Lawrence Jackson)

President Barack Obama plays with the daughter of Emmett Beliveau, the director of advance, in the Outer Oval Office, Oct. 30, 2009. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)

President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden wait in the holding room of the South Court Auditorium prior to the opening session of the White House Forum on Jobs and Economic Growth in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, Dec. 3, 2009. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)

President Barack Obama, First Lady Michelle Obama and Marian Robinson welcome children from Washington, D.C., Maryland and Virginia schools for Halloween festivities at the North Portico of the White House, Oct. 31, 2009. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)

President Barack Obama high fives with a boy at a fundraiser for Bill Owens, the Democratic candidate running for New York's 23rd Congressional District, at the Mandarin Oriental hotel in New York, N.Y., Oct. 20, 2009. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)

President Barack Obama lifts the Stanley Cup trophy during the East Room ceremony for the 2009 Stanley Cup NHL champion Pittsburgh Penquins, Sept. 10, 2009. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)

Jimmie Johnson, the 2008 Sprint Cup Champion, fires up his #48 Chevy while showing the car to President Barack Obama at a NASCAR ceremony on the South Lawn of the White House, Aug. 19, 2009. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza.)

Local fishing guide Dan Vermillion reacts as President Barack Obama hooks a trout on the East Gallatin River near Belgrade, Mont., August 14, 2009. The President hooked about 6 fish, but did not land any during his first fly fishing outing. (Official White House photo by Pete Souza)

President Barack Obama talks with Stephen Hawking in the Blue Room of the White House before a ceremony presenting him and 15 others the Presidential Medal of Freedom, August 12, 2009. The Medal of Freedom is the nation's highest civilian honor. (Official White House photo by Pete Souza)

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton laughs at a remark by Vice President Joe Biden as they wait for the start of a press statement by President Barack Obama and Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in the Oval Office Aug. 18, 2009. (Official White House Photo by Lawrence Jackson)

President Barack Obama and Mexico's President Felipe Calderon, right, are shown a display on the making of tequila at the Cabanas Cultural Center in Guadalajara, Mexico, August 10, 2009. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)

President Barack Obama waits in the Red Room of the White House with Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, Senior Advisor Valerie Jarrett and other Advisors prior to the start of his prime time news conference on July 22, 2009. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)

President Barack Obama tosses a football with Trip Director Marvin Nicholson in the outer Oval Office on June 26, 2009. Personal Secretary Katie Johnson watches from her desk. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)

President Barack Obama presents cupcakes with a candle to Hearst White House columnist Helen Thomas in honor of her birthday in the James Brady Briefing Room, August 4, 2009. Thomas, who turned 89 , shares the same birthday as Obama, who turne 48 years old. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)

President Barack Obama tries out the fly fishing rod given to him on his birthday by a group of avid fisherman on his staff, August 4, 2009. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)

Jan. 16, 2010 “President Obama had called on the two former Presidents to help with the situation in Haiti. During their public remarks in the Rose Garden, President Clinton had said about President Bush, ‘I’ve already figured out how I can get him to do some things that he didn’t sign on for.’ Later, back in the Oval, President Bush is jokingly asking President Clinton what were those things he had in mind.” (Official White House photo by Pete Souza)

President Barrack Obama carries a cake into the Oval Office birthday party for Phil Schiliro, assistant to the president for legislative affairs, August 6, 2009. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)