Organized labor denounced him for using federal troops to break up the Pullman strike.

VOA: special.2010.06.24

Baswedan says there is growing concern that President Obama cannot live up to high expectations Indonesians have set for him.

VOA: standard.2010.06.22

"I congratulate him for that, and we need to keep up the pressure on them."

VOA: standard.2009.06.23

It's important for him to share stories. Growing up in Pendleton he was often found himself in the middle of racial tensions because he was is part white.

VOA: standard.2009.12.11

"Michael Jackson has left a legacy, especially his dance style and his way of singing, "There are a lot people who admire him for the way he sang, the way he danced even up to today.

VOA: standard.2009.06.26

"I have been up on Obama for a long time. People in Chicago have been knowing Obama for the longest time, because him and his wife had been doing a lot of good things, trying to help out the neighborhoods."

VOA: standard.2010.02.24

"As a matter of fairness, the committee concluded, we should offer the prime minister, if he wished to take it up, the opportunity for him, for David Miliband his foreign secretary and Douglas Alexander the development secretary to attend hearings before the general election,".

VOA: standard.2010.01.22