Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano watches as President Barack Obama signs the Southwest Border Security Bill on Friday, Aug. 13, 2010, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
ASSOCIATED PRESS President Obama meets with area residents at Camardelle's, a seafood restaurant in Grand Isle, La., in June. Restaurant owners are hoping Mr. Obama's recent consumption of Gulf seafood will boost business and encourage residents to buy local.
ASSOCIATED PRESS President Obama has a cool treat with Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour in June after visiting residents affected by the oil spill. With the number of beachgoers down, Cyndi's Sno De-Lites now remains open only on weekends.
From top left; George W. Bush appears on NBC's "Deal or No Deal," Bill Clinton stops by the "Arsenio Hall Show" and President Barack Obama on "The View." (View photo ABC via Associated Press)
President Obama shakes hands with Commerce Secretary Gary Locke as U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk looks on after Mr. Obama signed the Manufacturing Enhancement Act of 2010 in the East Room of the White House in Washington on Wednesday, Aug. 11, 2010. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
Homes cover a hillside near Happy Valley, Ore. The Obama administration plans to send $600 million to help unemployed homeowners avoid foreclosure in five states. The Treasury Department said Wednesday that mortgage-assistance proposals submitted by North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Rhode Island and South Carolina received approval. The states estimate their efforts could help up to 50,000 homeowners. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)
ASSOCIATED PRESS JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon listens to an address by President Obama in Washington in March.
President Barack Obama, followed by teachers and Education Secretary Arne Duncan, walks to the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Aug. 10, 2010, to urge the House to pass legislation that could help keep 160,000 educators on the job. From left are: Shannon Lewis, of Romney, W. Va., who was a special education instructor who lost her job in June when her position was cut due to lack of funding, Duncan, and Rachel Martin who taught kindergarten in Richton Park, Ill. until she was laid off in March. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
President Barack Obama, accompanied by teachers, and Education Secretary Arne Duncan, speaks in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Aug. 10, 2010, to urge the House to pass legislation that could help keep 160,000 educators on the job. From left are: Shannon Lewis, of Romney, W. Va., who was a special education instructor who lost her job in June when her position was cut due to lack of funding, Duncan, the president, and Rachel Martin who taught kindergarten in Richton Park, Ill. until she was laid off in March. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
