Veterans Day came a day after the president spoke at a memorial service at the Army base at Fort Hood,Texas.

VOA: special.2009.11.14

Because every president has more things than can possibly done by any 10 people in a day.

因为每个总统每天要做的事,比10个人能做的,还要多。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

What was the most difficult day for you as Chief of Staff and the most joyous day, and the toughest assignment President Bush gave you?

作为白宫办公厅主任,最艰难的一天是哪天,最高兴的又是哪天，还有布什总统派给你的,最难的任务是什么？

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

On a cold and cloudy day in March of eighteen sixty-one, Abraham Lincoln became the sixteenth president of the United States.

VOA: special.2009.08.06

I sat there. It was during the Patriot's Day, no, the President's Day weekend, sitting here Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday, stacks of them going: yes, no, hell no.

我坐在那，那是爱国日，不，是总统纪念日的周末，坐在这周五，周六，周日，周一，不断看资料：,好的，不行，天哪不行。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

At the end of the day, even President Obama admitted that differences between the two sides may be too great for compromise.

VOA: special.2010.02.27

And the guys said, "Well, you know, The rooster works very hard " The rooster has sex dozens of times a day" " And she said, "Well, be sure to tell that to the president" The story goes, the president went around, the guy tells the story to the president The president asks the man, "Huh Has sex dozens of times each day ?" Same hen every time?"

那人回答说，“那只公鸡很卖力的,每天交配好几十次“,她就说“确保把这告诉总统“,然后总统走过来，那人也跟总统说了这事,总统问他,“每天交配几十次,是和同一只母鸡吗“

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

It was a tradition to open the White House on that day so the president could wish visitors a happy new year.

VOA: special.2009.10.08

So if you just did carelessly, you'd completely fail the president's day.

如果不认真安排日程，你可能就完全搞砸了总统的工作。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

The next year,President Woodrow Wilson signed a document declaring November eleventh as Armistice Day in the United States.

VOA: special.2010.11.05

And the challenge for scheduling is to pick the things that you want the president to be working on and the president wants to be focusing on proactively rather than just reacting to whatever the crisis on the day was.

安排日程的难处在于,选择事情,选择你要让总统去做,选择总统需要积极投入,而不仅仅是消极回应的,每天发生的大事情。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

There were many changes in the social customs and day-to-day life of millions of Americans during the administration of President Calvin Coolidge.

VOA: special.2011.01.06

So what I would take the most credit for as Chief of Staff is having helped bring in very good, energic, smart, talented people into the White House, into the boarder administration to assist the president on dealing with the biggest problems of the day.

所以我作为办公厅主任最自豪的,就是帮助白宫引进了,非常优秀，非常有活力,非常聪明能干的工作人员,让他们进入这个机构协助总统,处理现今社会的重大问题。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

On that same day, Abraham Lincoln left his home in Illinois to become president of the United States.

VOA: special.2009.07.23

President Obama asked Congress for an additional two billion dollars which could last through Labor Day, September seventh.

VOA: special.2009.08.07

The next day, John Wilkes Booth, an actor and supporter of the defeated Confederacy, shot President Lincoln at Ford's Theatre in Washington.

VOA: special.2010.05.10

President Richard Nixon gave federal government workers the day off to watch the moon landing on television.

VOA: special.2009.07.15

On his second day as president, Lincoln received some bad news from Fort Sumter at Charleston,South Carolina.

VOA: special.2009.08.06

On Veterans Day,the president traditionally lays a wreath of flowers next to the Tomb of the Unknowns at Arlington National Cemetery near Washington.

VOA: special.2009.11.14

One soldier told of guarding the president's house on a day when Lincoln was sitting on the porch with his young son Tad.

VOA: special.2010.05.10

The president,born in Hawaii, began his eight-day trip in Japan, then visited Singapore, China and South Korea.

VOA: special.2009.11.21

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

VOA: special.2009.10.10

Finally,President Woodrow Wilson signed a resolution in May of nineteen fourteen that officially established Mother's Day.

VOA: special.2009.05.04

Joseph Kennedy told his friends that his sons would one day run for president.

VOA: special.2009.09.13

Susan Bass is the vice president of programs and operations at Earth Day Network.

VOA: special.2010.04.21

President Obama had hoped to sign a final bill by July fourth, Independence Day.

VOA: special.2010.07.02

The location of President Lincoln's Cottage has not changed since Lincoln's day.

VOA: special.2010.05.10

They would return the next day to nominate their candidate for president.

VOA: special.2009.07.09

The next day,President McKinley went to the fair's temple of music.

VOA: special.2010.07.29

Zachary Taylor was sworn-in as president that same day.

VOA: special.2009.03.12