Obama's First Year

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President Barack Obama, accompanied by Vice President Joe Biden and retired military members, gestures in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington on Jan. 22, 2009, where he began overhauling U.S. treatment of terror suspects by signing executive orders and a presidential directive aimed at closing the Guantanamo Bay detention center.

Author: CBS News Staff

Credit: AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite

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