President Obama returned to the United States this week after his first visit to Europe since taking office in January.

VOA: special.2009.04.11

He was recently appointed by President Obama to be part of the Council of the White House Office of Faith-based and Community Partnerships.

最近，奥巴马总统任命他,到白宫信仰社区合作办公室,委员会任职。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

I was in my office along with my boss and Andrew Card, who was the president's first Chief of Staff.

我和总统在办公室里,还有安德鲁·卡尔德,他是布什的第一任办公室主任。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

He said the election of a citizen to the office of president should not be a reason for dissolving the Union.

VOA: special.2009.07.16

The White House Chief of Staff is the highest ranking member of the executive office of the president of the United States.

白宫办公厅主任,是美国总统的,行政办公室当中,职位最高的人员。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

In his first one hundred days in office, President Roosevelt worked with Congress to pass a series of measures.

VOA: special.2009.05.02

Before becoming President Bush's White House Chief of Staff, he was President Bush's Director of the Office of Management and Bugdet for three years.

在成为小布什的,白宫办公厅主任之前，他是,小布什的管理与预算办公室主任,在那里工作了三年。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

I, George Walker Bush, do solemnly swear... That I will faithfully execute the office of president of the United States...

VOA: special.2009.01.19

Before becoming President Bush's White House Chief of Staff, he was President Bush's Director of the Office of Management and Budget for 3 years.

在成为布什总统的,白宫办公厅主任之前，他是布什总统的,白宫管理与预算办公室主任,任期三年。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

Removal from office would have established the idea that the president could serve only with the approval of Congress.

VOA: special.2010.02.04

The Office of the White House Chief of Staff is the highest office, and the Chief of Staff is the highest ranking member of the executive office of the president of the United States.

白宫办公厅是,最高级别的政府机关，而办公厅主任是,美国总统行政办公室,级别最高的官员。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

Then, almost two years since announcing his candidacy for America's highest office, Mr. Obama began the work of president.

VOA: special.2009.01.24

Even when the president first came into the office he is always careful to make sure he was always well briefed, meet regularly with his national security team, with his intelligence briefers, on a regular basis.

即使是总统从一开始,走进办公室,他总会很小心地确保,他有个良好的情况简介，和他的安全小组见面，和情报简报员见面，这些都是定期的。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

George Washington was the first president to place his hand on a Christian Bible when taking the oath of office.

VOA: special.2009.01.19

George Washington was a military hero. So was the 7th president, Andrew Jackson, who took office in 1829.

VOA: special.2009.01.19

It recreates television interviews that British performer David Frost held with former president Richard Nixon after he left office in nineteen seventy-seven.

VOA: special.2009.02.20

President Obama made a campaign promise to begin efforts for immigration reform in his first year in office.

VOA: special.2009.04.18

But from his office in the White House, he must also attend to his other duties as president of the United States.

VOA: special.2010.05.10

President Obama took the oath of office in January on the Bible that Abraham Lincoln owned and used at his first inauguration.

VOA: special.2009.07.24

Presumably,he will be taking the oath of office shortly, and become the thirty-sixth president of the United States."

VOA: special.2009.08.16

And,this week, President Obama nominated the police chief from Seattle as the new director for the Office of National Drug Control Policy.

VOA: special.2009.03.14

Rutherford Hayes was sworn into office as the nineteenth president of the United States in eighteen seventy-seven.

VOA: special.2010.03.11

In eighteen fifty, President Zachary Taylor died after serving about a year and a half in office.

VOA: special.2009.04.16

President Obama gave his first speech from the Oval Office Tuesday night to discuss the oil spill.

VOA: special.2010.06.19

The last day for nominations was February first, less than two weeks after the president took office.

VOA: special.2009.10.10

The president and other political leaders of the United States are elected to office by the citizens.

VOA: special.2009.12.14

The other bill changed the list of officials who could become president, if the president and vice president died or were removed from office.

VOA: special.2010.05.06

President Lyndon Johnson was in office and the Vietnam War was an issue of national dispute.

VOA: special.2009.06.07

The president then announced that the post office would,once again,be protected by the civil service laws.

VOA: special.2010.05.27

George W. Bush leaves office on Tuesday after 8 years as president of the United States.

VOA: special.2009.01.17