Description of the event. During National Small Business Week, Small Business Administrator Karen Mills joins a Google+ Hangout to announce the SBA video contest winners and discuss how SBA assistance helped their small business and what inspired their successes. May 23, 2012.
Nancy-Ann DeParle, the Deputy Chief of Staff to President Barack Obama, talks about her first job, the lessons she learned and how they still apply to her work today. Go find your first job at http://www.whitehous e.gov/summerjobs
President Obama delivers the commencement address at Joplin High School. Just hours after last year's graduation ceremony, the school was destroyed by a massive tornado that claimed the lives of one graduate and 160 others in Joplin. May 21, 2012.
President Obama awards Burt Bacharach and Hal David the annual Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song at a concert & ceremony at the White House. Hear from some of the musicians who came to honor the songwriting duo and listen in on some of the classic Bacharach & David songs being performed.
President Obama speaks to leaders of the 50 nations that make up the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan before a meeting to discuss the next step in the transition of power there?setting a goal for Afghan forces to take the lead for combat operations across the country in 2013 -- next year -- so that ISAF can move to a supporting role. May 21, 2012.
Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategic Communication Ben Rhodes; General John Allen, Commander of NATO International Security Assistance Forces - Afghanistan; and Special Assistant to the President for Afghanistan and Pakistan Doug Lute hold a press briefing at the NATO Summit in Chicago. May 20, 2012.
U.S. Ambassador to NATO Ivo Daalder and Deputy National Security Advisor Ben Rhodes brief the press after the first NATO session at the Chicago summit, a North Atlantic Council focusing on NATO defense capabilities. May 20, 2012.
