Chief Official White House Photographer Pete Souza is an outstanding photojournalist. Each year he selects 100 of his favorite photographs from the previous year (taken by him and the handful of staff photographers who work for him). This year, that collection is here. We've swiped a handful to show off his range (all photos by Pete Souza).
The president drops in on Sgt. 1st Class Cory Remsburg at his new home in Gilbert, AZ. He had previously met Remsburg in Normandy, and then ran into him again at Walter Reed Hospital after Remsburg was wounded in Afghanistan.
The night the Supreme Court ruled in favor of same-sex marriage, White House staffers stayed late to celebrate.
Kids like the president, and vice versa. This is Ayla Dorilien Bitar and her parents.
One more with kids. This is Ella Rhodes, daughter of Deputy National Security Advisor Ben Rhodes, in an Ella-phant costume for Halloween.
Working at the Resolute Desk one autumn afternoon. We love the light here.
POTUS and FLOTUS holding hands while listening to Rep. John Lewis speak at the 50th anniversary commemoration of Bloody Sunday in Selma, AL.
Boarding Marine One (which we were fortunate enough to see in flight over the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial in 2014).
For another year-end note, read the farewell column by 40-year Washington Post veteran Walter Pincus, which includes this pearl of wisdom:
The Islamic State, as with al-Qaeda, al-Shabab and other current terrorist groups, needs to be put in some perspective. After 9/11, a very wise intelligence officer told me in 2002, “We have turned 16 clever al-Qaeda terrorists into a worldwide movement, seemingly more dangerous to Americans than the communist Soviet Union with thousands of nuclear missiles.”
Never at the height of the Cold War did we institute the security actions at home that have been taken and are being contemplated to meet what’s been described as the current terrorist threat. President Obama put it in perspective during a Dec. 21, National Public Radio interview when he said, “This is not an organization that can destroy the United States . . . But they can hurt us, and they can hurt our people and our families. And so I understand why people are worried. The most damage they can do, though, is if they start changing how we live and what our values are.”
And that's a wrap. See you next year.
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