Publishing date: Jan 22, 2021 • January 22, 2021 • 5 minute read • British Prime Minister Theresa May (L) and US President Donald Trump meet beside a bust of former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill in the Oval Office of the White House on January 27, 2017 in Washington, DC. Photo by BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AF
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LONDON – When reporters toured the recently redecorated Oval Office on Wednesday, they took note of the symbolic changes in scenery that have come to stand in for an incoming U.S. president’s view of America. President Joe Biden led in with a huge portrait of wartime President Franklin D. Roosevelt and a bust of civil rights hero Rosa Parks.
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President Joe Biden got to work on day one. The first order of business was what we most needed – setting a new tone at the top, one that no longer pits Democrats against Republicans, whites against blacks or Americans against Americans.
“This is a great nation,” he said in his inaugural address. “We are good people. And over the centuries, through storm and strife, in peace and in war, we’ve come so far. But we still have far to go.”
WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 20: U.S. President Joe Biden delivers his inaugural address on the West Front of the U.S. Capitol on January 20, 2021 in Washington, DC. During today s inauguration ceremony Joe Biden becomes the 46th president of the United States. (Photo by Rob Carr/Getty Images) Getty ImagesGetty Images
President Biden, of course, has visited India many times, respects and values the long bipartisan successful relationship between leader in India and the United States. It looks forward to a continuation of that, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said in a statement. The historic inauguration of India-origin Kamala Harris, she said, further cements this relationship.
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Harvard Kennedy School Associate Professor Maya Sen discusses her research into the political leanings of lawyers and argues why it is perfectly normal for attorneys hired by special counsel Robert Mueller to have donated to Democrats. She is pictured outside of HKS at Harvard University. Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard Staff Photographer
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Pesident Joe Biden on Wednesday issued a call for national unity, devoting much of his inaugural address not to the policies and programs to come, but to the “uncivil war” that Americans must put behind them to tackle their myriad national challenges.
Biden orders restoration of federal employee protections January 22 President Joe Biden signed an executive order Jan. 22 to overturn previous Trump administration union restrictions and to guarantee a higher minimum wage. (Alex Brandon/AP) President Joe Biden signed an executive order Friday that overturned former President Donald Trump’s May 2018 orders to restrict federal collective bargaining. The previous orders, which were the subject of several lawsuits and labor practice challenges, mandated a more constrained use of official time, required agencies to renegotiate collective bargaining agreements under strict parameters and made it easier to fire federal employees. Under the just-signed order, agencies will no longer be required to pursue such stringent negotiations with federal unions.