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President Obama smiles as a reporter asks a question during a news conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington on Aug. 9, 2013. (Associated Press)

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President Obama speaks at a news conference in the East Room at the White House in Washington on Aug. 9, 2013. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** President Barack Obama speaks in the Brady Press Briefing room of the White House in Washington, Friday, July 19, 2013, about the verdict in the Trayvon Martin case. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

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**FILE** President Obama, standing with families who benefited from the health care law provision that provides consumers with a refund if their insurance company doesn’t spend the majority of premium dollars on medical care, speaks about health care reform and the Affordable Care Act in the East Room at the White House in Washington on July 18, 2013. (Associated Press)

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**FILE** President Obama speaks on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington on April 17, 2013. (Associated Press)

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**FILE** Michael Froman, President Obama's choice to become U.S. Trade Representative, listens as the president speaks in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington on May 2, 2013. (Associated Press)