Photos: The Obama Presidency December 14th, 2009

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The White House is enveloped in fog in Washington Sunday, Dec. 13, 2009.



President Barack Obama’s plan to talk tough to bankers in a meeting at the White House Monday morning lost some of its punch when the executives at several top financial institutions could not make the sit-down due to bad weather.

Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein, Morgan Stanley CEO John Mack and Citigroup Chairman Richard Parsons were all stuck on the tarmac this morning as their airplanes waited out fog delays, an industry source said. The executives were not in the room for Obama’s 11:10 a.m. meeting, but the White House said they were piped in via conference call.
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President Barack Obama meets with members of the financial industry in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2009, to discuss the economic recovery. Clockwise, from left are, American Express Chief Executive Officer Ken Chenault; Wells Fargo President and Chief Executive Officer John Stumpf; Bank of New York Mellon Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Bob Kelly; Council of Economic Advisers Chair Christina Romer; JPMorgan Chase Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Jamie Dimon; PNC Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Jim Rohr; Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner; and the president.


U.S. Bancorp Chairman, President and Chief Executive Richard Davis prepares for an interview after a meeting with U.S. President Barack Obama at the White House


U.S. President Barack Obama speaks to the media in the Diplomatic Reception Room after meeting with financial services industry leaders at the White House in Washington December 14, 2009. Obama told top U.S. bankers on Monday they owed the country their help in lifting the economy out of crisis and implored them to lend more money and get behind financial reforms.





In this photo provided by CBS, Sens. Joe Lieberman, I-Conn. , left, Ben Nelson, D-Neb. , right, and Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va. , talk at CBS's "Face the Nation" in Washington, Sunday, Dec. 13, 2009.






Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev. , center, gestures during a news conference on health care, Monday, Dec. 14, 2009, on Capitol Hill in Washington. With Reid from left are Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash. , Max Baucus, D-Mont. , Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y. , and Sen. Christopher Dodd, D-Conn.









President Barack Obama listens as Lebanese President Michel Sleiman, not pictured, speaks during their meeting in the Oval Office of the White House


Angry homeowners and members of the Neighborhood Assistance Corporation of America protest inside the lobby of Chase's investment headquarters in Lower Manhattan in New York, Monday, Dec. 14, 2009, while Chase CEO Jamie Dimon meet with President Barack Obama in Washington Monday.