The weblog will share a number of the hundreds of letters that Mr. Obama receives from the general public each day.
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Titled “Letters to President Obama”, the new Tumblr blog endeavors to showcase the materials mailed to the White House, as well as the stories behind them.
“We’ve posted both letters the President has responded to personally in our “Asked and Answered” series, and letters we’ve received from Americans that have helped us better understand the lives of folks across the country”, a White House official said.
The first letter, published Thursday, came from an Ohio cancer survivor who had sent the president a letter in 2009 telling him to “stay focused” in his battle to reform America’s health care system. I positive tried – I reduce every part, however nothing made a distinction. Canfield tells Obama being diagnosed with cancer years ago led to increasing insurance rates until she had to cancel her health insurance completely. “And he actually read it!”
A couple of months after she wrote to the president, she was recognized with a uncommon sort of leukemia, she writes.
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Canfield’s sister and brother attended the ceremony when Obama signed the Affordable Care Act into law in March 2010. Her letter now famously hangs in a frame outside the Oval Office.
