President Obama speaks to reporters at the White House in Washington on Wednesday, April 6, 2011, after meeting with House Speaker John A. Boehner and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid regarding the budget and the possible government shutdown. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
House Speaker John A. Boehner (right), Ohio Republican, and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Nevada Democrat, speak to reporters after their meeting at the White House in Washington with President Obama regarding the budget and possible government shutdown, on Wednesday, April 6, 2011. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
President Obama gestures while speaking Tuesday about the possible government shutdown at the White House in Washington. (Associated Press)
FILE - In this Jan. 20, 2009 file photo, Barack Obama, left, joined by his wife Michelle, takes the oath of office from Chief Justice John Roberts to become the 44th president of the United States at the U.S. Capitol in Washington. A White House site offering one-page biographies of all 44 presidents, has just six paragraphs in Obama's biography _ with no details about the historic 2008 campaign. It ends with his inauguration. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, file)
President Obama speaks about a possible government shutdown this week during a press conference at the White House in Washington on Tuesday, April 5, 2011. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
White House press secretary Jay Carney briefs reporters at the White House in Washington on Friday, April 1, 2011. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
Mary Fuhrman, with the League of Women Voters of North Orange County, Calif., listens Thursday at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library in Yorba Linda, Calif., to a presentation on "The Gap," the infamous 181¿2-minute gap in a White House tape recording, as part of the Watergate Gallery exhibit on the history of the 1970s scandal. (Associated Press)
Former Vice President Walter F. Mondale (center) arrives for the funeral Mass in New York City for former vice-presidential candidate Geraldine Ferraro, his Democratic running mate in the failed 1984 campaign for the White House. (Associated Press)
Former White House press secretary James Brady, who was left paralyzed in President Reagan's assassination attempt, visits lawmakers on Capitol Hill on Wednesday, the 30th anniversary of the shooting. (Associated Press)
