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In 2014, Obama took an unexpected action: He opened up dialogue, negotiations and a relationship with Cuba, the island only 90 miles away from the Florida coast that had been off limits for decades.

With the Capitol, that symbol of democratic freedom and power as a backdrop, the message of hope was delivered. Behind the podium, one man stood alone — Barack Hussein Obama, the 47-year-old son of a black father from Kenya and a white mother from Kansas after taking the oath of office.

During his address to the nation, Obama called the massacre, which was the deadliest mass shooting in the U.S., “an act of terror and an act of hate.” President Barack Obama hugs Hillary Clinton, the 2016 Democratic presidential nominee, on stage during the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, July 27, 2016.