When I took office, the efforts to apply pressure on Iran were in tatters.
When I took office, we were losing hundreds of thousands of jobs a month.
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Indeed, when I took office just over 16 months ago, Iranian intransigence was well-established.
Having said that, three years from when I took office, America is moving on the right track.
When I took office as President, I sent a message to those governments who ruled by fear.
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To put this in perspective, when I took office, roughly 180, 000 troops were deployed in these wars.
Now, this is tougher to do in light of the deficit that I inherited when I took office.
When I took office, I pledged to cut the deficit in half by the end of my first term.
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But as I said when I took office, job recovery from this crisis would not come easily or quickly.
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When I took office, roughly 180, 000 Americans were serving in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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After losing 800, 000 jobs a month when I took office, businesses have now added over 5 million new jobs.
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So breaking our economic freefall was job number one when I took office.
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When I took office, Bob Gates had already served under seven Presidents during an illustrious career that spanned four decades.
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When I took office, our nation was engaged in two wars, and al Qaeda was entrenched in their safe havens.
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When I took office, nearly 150, 000 American troops were deployed in Iraq, and I pledged to end this war, responsibly.
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When I took office I said, why not give these businesses some access to public lands that aren't otherwise being utilized?
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When I took office, our economy was on the brink of collapse.
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So when I took office, we knew the first thing we had to do was to break the back of this recession.
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When I took office, America had free trade agreements with three countries.
When I took office, I pledged to do whatever was required to protect the American people and restore American leadership in the world.
Now, even after paying for what we spent on my watch, we'll still face the massive deficit we had when I took office.
When I took office, we had just over 32, 000 Americans serving in Afghanistan, compared to 160, 000 in Iraq at the peak of the war.
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Today we learned that after losing 800, 000 jobs a month when I took office, businesses added jobs for the 30th month in a row.
We had to take the country through some pretty tough steps to pull us out of the freefall that we faced when I took office.
And that's why we took some very tough steps, in some cases some unpopular steps, when I took office to break the back of this recession.
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When I took office we had already lost 4 million jobs and we lost another 4 million just in the few months right after I took office.
When I took office, America faced three closely linked challenges.
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After losing about 800, 000 jobs a month when I took office, our businesses have now added 5.2 million new jobs over the past two and a half years.
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When I took office, we did something about it.
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When I took office, I launched the Presidential Initiative for Maternal Health and Safe Motherhood, a project that I hope will reverse the poor access to reproductive health services for women in my country.
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