1/9/09 - "First Granny"

President-elect Barack Obama's mother-in-law, Marian Robinson, is moving into the White House at least temporarily to join Michelle Obama and the two children, transition officials said Friday. That's good news for 10-year-old Malia and 7-year-old Sasha. During the campaign, Robinson retired from her job as a bank executive secretary to help care for her granddaughters.

1/7/09 - Official Inaugeration Poster

The Barack Obama Inaugural Committee is releasing an official inauguration poster playing off past themes and marking the history of January 20th in a uniquely Obama fashion. Designed by famed street artist Shepard Fairey, the print, created especially for the 2009 Inauguration, boldly declares "BE THE CHANGE."

1/7/09 - Obama Names New 'CPO'

Nancy Killefer delivers a short statement after U.S. President-elect Barack Obama (L) announced her as his choice of "chief performance officer" during a news conference at the transition headquarters in Washington, DC. A former assistant Treasury secretary for the Clinton administration, Killefer is a senior director for McKinsey & Company, a management consulting firm. Officials said Killefer will be key in putting the administration on path to fiscal discipline, especially in the face of what Obama said could be trillion-dollar deficits for years to come.

1/7/09 - All the Presidents

L-R) Former President President George H.W. Bush, President-elect Barack Obama, U.S. President George W. Bush, former President Bill Clinton and former President Jimmy Carter meet in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. Photo from Reuters Pictures.

1/6/09 - The Prez Get New Wheels

The Detroit News reports that a new model of a presidential limousine made by General Motors Corp. has been delivered to the Secret Service and will make its debut on Inauguration Day. The vehicle, referred to by the Secret Service as "the beast," will reportedly feature heavy armor that is at least 5 inches thick and comes complete with run-flat tires, bulletproof glass and a completely sealed interior to ward off a chemical attack, among many other high-tech security features. This photo shows the vehicle before final painting.

1/5/09 - Daughters Start School

Seven-year-old Sasha Obama peers out the window of a Secret Service vehicle as they depart Sidwell Friends School after dropping off her sister Malia, on the first day of school in Washington, DC.

1/5/09 - Obamas Move into DC Hotel

President-elect Barack Obama and his family have moved to Washington in time for his daughters to start school, aides said Tuesday. With the White House still occupied and Blair House unavailable, the future first family will hole up in the Hay-Adams Hotel, one of the city's most exclusive hotels located in Lafayette Square across from the White House.

1/5/09 - Dr Lubchenco to Head NOAA

Dr. Jane Lubchenco has been appointed to head the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Dr. Lubcheno is a marine ecologist and is currently Professor of Marine Biology at Oregon State University. Her research experience includes marine biodiversity, climate change, ecosystem services, marine reserves, coastal marine ecosystems, and sustainability science. Dr. Lubchenco is a very vocal proponent of curbing greenhouse gases linked to global warming. In the past, she has strongly criticized NOAA for not doing enough to curb overfishing. Testifying before Congress last summer, she said the United States should consider a "National Park Service for the ocean."

1/5/09 - Holdren to be Top Science Advisor

Dr. John Holdren, a physicist at Harvard University, has been appointed by Barack Obama to be the director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. He will also be the Chair of the president's Council of Advisers on Science and Technology. Dr. Holdren is currently Professor of Environmental Science and Public Policy in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Harvard University. His work has focused on global environmental change and energy technologies, as well as nuclear proliferation. Based on the past comments and writings of Dr. Holdren, his solution to climate and energy problems is increased energy efficiency combined with a wide-range of alternative energy sources. He favors regulation and carbon taxes on oil and coal, and considers it essential to reduce emissions.

1/5/09 - Paging Dr Gupta

President-elect Barack Obama is reportedly tapping CNN's chief medical correspondent to be his surgeon general. Obama offered Sanjay Gupta, 39, a practicing neurosurgeon who's reported on public health crises from around the world, the position sometime after a November meeting in Chicago, unidentified sources told the Washington Post. Gupta didn’t immediately respond to an email seeking comment this afternoon, but he's expected to take the position, according to the Post. He was reportedly weighing whether he could afford (or wanted) to give up his lucrative TV and medical gigs and move his family (he has two kids and his wife is pregnant) from Atlanta to Washington, D.C. Gupta was a correspondent for "Planet in Peril," a series on climate change that CNN produced in collaboration with Scientific American. He is known for injecting himself into stories, conducting brain surgery five times — including on a two-year-old suffering from head wounds — while embedded with troops in Iraq six years ago. Gupta has a health-policy background, too. As a White House fellow in the 1990s, he wrote speeches for then-First Lady Hilary Clinton. Clinton, now New York's junior senator, is Obama's pick to become secretary of state.

1/5/09 - Panetta Picked to Head CIA

President-elect Barack Obama has chosen former Clinton White House chief of staff Leon Panetta to run the CIA. He was a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1977 to 1993. Panetta was also director of the Office of Management and Budget. He served on the Iraq Study Group, a bipartisan panel that released a report at the end of 2006 with dozens of recommendations for the reversing course in the Iraq war. Panetta currently directs with his wife Sylvia the Leon & Sylvia Panetta Institute for Public Policy, based at California State University, Monterey Bay a university he helped establish on the site of the former U.S. Army base, Fort Ord.

1/5/09 - Obama Returns to D.C.

U.S. President-elect Barack Obama (C), Vice President-elect Joe Biden (2R) Senate Majority Leader Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV) (L) and White House Chief of Staff-designate Rahm Emanuel (2L) walk past a crowd of journalists on their way to a meeting with Congressional Republican and Democratic leaders on Capitol Hill January 5, 2009 in Washington, DC. After arriving in Washington over the weekend with his family, Obama met with the Congressional leaders to begin work on an economic stimulus package that he hopes will include hundreds of billions of dollars worth of tax breaks for individuals and businesses.

1/3/09 - Obama Returns from Hawaii

US president-elect Barack Obama (L) shakes hands with Col. Scott Turner as he boards an Air Force 757 for his official flight to Washington to join his wife Michelle, who traveled the previous day, at Chicago's Midway Airport. Photo by Getty Images.

12/25/08 - Obama Visits Marines on Christmas

U.S. President-elect Barack Obama (R) meets with U.S. Marines having dinner at Anderson Hall on Christmas day at Kaneohe Marine Corps Base Hawaii in Kailua. Photo by Reuters Pictures.

12/23/08 - Barack Attends Memorial Service for Grandmother

U.S. President-elect Barack Obama (C), along with wife Michelle Obama (L), sister Maya Soetoro-Ng (2R) and long-time family friend Bobby Titcomb, returns from a seaside memorial for Obama's late grandmother Madelyn Dunham on the south-eastern coast of Oahu December 23, 2008 in Honolulu, Hawaii. Obama and his family arrived in his native Hawaii December 20 with his family for the Christmas holiday.

12/21/08 - Obama to Hawaii for the Holidays

U.S. President-elect Barack Obama and his family have arrived in Hawaii for a vacation over the Christmas holidays. The president-elect is shown here arriving to play golf near his house in Kailua, Hawaii Sunday, Dec. 21, 2008.

12/20/08 - Obama Names Science Team

John Holdren and Jane Lubchenco are leading experts on climate change who have advocated forceful government action. Holdren will become Obama's science adviser as director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. Lubchenco will lead the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which oversees ocean and atmospheric studies and does much of the government's research on global warming. Holdren also will direct the president's Council of Advisers on Science and Technology. Joining him as co-chairs will be Nobel Prize-winning scientist Harold Varmus, a former director of the National Institutes of Health, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Eric Lander, a specialist in human genome research.

12/19/08 - Labor, Transportation, and SBA Heads Named

President-elect Barack Obama, center, with, from left to right, U.S. Trade Representative- designate Ron Kirk , Secretary of Labor- designate Rep. Hilda Solis, D-Calif., Secretary of Transportation-designate Rep. Ray LaHood, R-ill., and Small Business Administrator- designate Karen Mills at a news conference in Chicago.

12/18/08 - Obama to Name Blair Director of National Intelligence

President-elect Barack Obama has settled on retired Adm. Dennis Blair (L) to fill the nation's top intelligence job, congressional officials knowledgeable about the decision said today. Blair is show in this earlier photo with Secretary of Defence Robert Gates (R). Blair, the former commander of the U.S. Pacific Command, would become the nation's third director of national intelligence, succeeding Mike McConnell as the leader of the 16 U.S. intelligence agencies. He had been the rumored front-runner for the job for several weeks. "It's definitely Blair," said one congressional official who had been briefed on the selection. Both sources spoke on the condition of anonymity. The Obama transition team declined comment. Blair, if confirmed in the post, would be the second retired naval flag officer to hold the post, after McConnell. Some members of Congress, in internal discussions with the Obama team, had objected to the appointment of another career military officer to head the country's civilian-run intelligence establishment. Ultimately, however, resistance to the selection faded as Blair impressed Republican and Democratic lawmakers with his knowledge of the intelligence agencies and ideas for streamlining and improving the often unwieldy U.S. intelligence apparatus, the sources said. Blair had served during the Clinton administration as a military liaison at the CIA in charge of coordinating intelligence between the spy agency and Pentagon. Blair is somewhat renowned in U.S. Naval circles for attempting to water ski behind his destroyer when he was the skipper.

12/18/08 - More Economic Team Unveiled

U.S. President-elect Barack Obama speaks at a news conference where he introduced Mary Schapiro (L) as his choice to head the Securities and Exchange Commission, Gary Gensler (2nd L) to head the Commodities Futures Trading Commission and Dan Tarullo (2nd R) to lead the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, during a news conference in Chicago

12/18/08 - Inaugural Plans Develop

Military District of Washington Commanding General Richard J. Rowe, Jr. gives a briefing to military personnel as he stands on a 40 foot square logistics planning map for the inauguration of President Barack Obama at the DC Armory in Washington December 18, 2008. The inauguration will take place on January 20, 2009 on the steps of the U.S. Capitol Building.

12/17/08 - Agriculture & Interior Secretaries Named

U.S. President-elect Barack Obama (C) introduces former Iowa Governor Tom Vilsack (L) as his nominee for secretary of agriculture and Colorado Senator Ken Salazar as the nominee for secretary of interior during a news conference in Chicago.

12/17/08 - Time Person of the Year

This image supplied by Time Magazine, shows the cover of the magazine's December 29, issue naming President-elect Barack Obama as their "Person of the Year" for 2008. The news magazine's cover is by ex-street artist, Shephard Fairey, whose early poster of Senator Obama became a populist image of the campaign.

12/16/08 - Pick for Education Secretary Announced

US president-elect Barack Obama (C), vice-president elect Joe Biden (L) and nominee for education secretary Arne Duncan (R), listen to a student at a local school, the Dodge Renaissance Academy, in Chicago. Obama earlier nominated Duncan, the tough-minded Chicago schools superintendent, as his education secretary with a mandate to overhaul failing US schools. At a news conference, Obama vowed new funding for schools plus new demands on teachers and parents, arguing it was "morally unacceptable for our children and economically untenable for America" to allow standards to slip further.

12/15/08 - Energy & Environment Team Unveiled

President-elect Barack Obama with Vice President-elect Joe Biden introduces his administration�s energy and environmental team including (L-R) Nancy Sutley, a deputy mayor of Los Angeles, as head of the White House Council on environmental quality; Nobel physics laureate Steven Chu as his choice for energy secretary; Lisa Jackson, chief of staff for New Jersey's governor, to run the EPA and former Environmental Protection Agency chief Carol Browner to head a new council to coordinate White House climate and environment policies during a press conference at the Drake Hotel December 15, 2008 in Chicago, Illinois. Following the introductions, Obama was questioned about the nature of Chicago politics and the recent arrest of Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich.

12/11/08 - Healthcare Team Announced

President-Elect Barack Obama (R) speaks as Jeanne Lambrew (L), who will serve as deputy director of the new White House office of Health Reform, and former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, who will serve as Health and Human Services Secretary-designate, listen during a press conference at the Hilton hotel December 11, 2008 in Chicago, Illinois. Obama spoke about the future of the nation's health care system.

12/8/08 - Obama and Biden Meet with Gore

President-elect Barack Obama (C) sits with Vice President-elect Joe Biden (L) and former Vice President Al Gore after a private meeting at Obama's transition office on December 9, 2008 in Chicago, Illinois. An Obama spokesman said the three men discussed energy and climate change and how policies in those areas could help the economy.

12/7/08 - Shinseki Returns to Head Veterans Affairs

President-elect Barack Obama (L) introduces retired General Eric K. Shinseki (R) as nominee for Veterans Affairs secretary during a news conference in Chicago.

12/3/08 - It's Richardson for Commerce

US President elect Barack Obama (R) nominates New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson (L) as US Commerce Secretary during a press conference in Chicago, Illinios.

12/2/08 - President-Elect Meets with Governors

President-elect Barack Obama, center, speaks at the Bipartisan meeting of the National Governor's Association at Congress Hall, in Philadelphia, Pa.

12/1/08 - National Security Team Announced

U.S. President-elect Barack Obama (R) stands with his national security team nominees Eric Holder (Attorney General), Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano (Head of Homeland Security), Robert Gates (continuing as Secretary of Defense), Vice President-elect Joe Biden, Senator Hillary Clinton (Secretary of State), retired Marine General James Jones (National Security Advisor) and Susan Rice (U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations) (L-R) during a news conference in Chicago.

11/24/08 - Obama Names Economic Team

President-elect Barack Obama introduces his economic team during a press conference at the Hilton Hotel November 24, 2008 in Chicago, Illinois. Obama named (L to R) Timothy Geithner, president of the New York Federal Reserve Bank, as treasury Secretary; Christina Romer, an economist at the University of California at Berkeley, will chair the Council of Economic Advisers; Lawrence Summers, former treasury secretary under President Bill Clinton, as director of the National Economic Council; and Melody Barnes, executive vice president for policy at the center for American Progress, as director of his White House Domestic Policy Council.

11/22/08 - Gibbs Named Press Secretary

Robert Gibbs has been at the side of President-elect Barack Obama since his Senate campaign in 2004. Two of the top qualities Robert Gibbs brings to the job of White House press secretary aren't found on his resume: He won't flinch at telling it like it is to the next president or telling it like he thinks it ought to be to the media.

11/18/08 - New Chief of Staff

U.S. Representative Rahm Emanuel (D-IL), the newly appointed Chief of Staff to U.S. President-elect Barack Obama, arrives to the House Democratic Caucus closed meeting on Capitol Hill in Washington.

11/11/08 - Obama Meets with Bush

US president-elect Barack Obama meets with US President George W. Bush during a welcome ceremony at the White House in Washington, DC.

11/11/08 - Honoring the Fallen

President-Elect Obama with Illinois State Director of Veterans Affairs, Tammy Duckworth after placing a wreath at The Bronze Soldiers Memorial in honor of Veteran's Day.

11/7/08 - Time to Get Serious

President-elect Obama, center, right, meets with his economic advisory team in Chicago.

11/04/08 - Victory!

U.S. President-elect Senator Barack Obama (C) (D-IL) hugs his wife Michelle as Vice President-elect Senator Joe Biden (L) (D-DE) embraces his wife Jill following Obama's speech during his election night rally after being declared the winner of the 2008 U.S. Presidential Campaign in Chicago, November 4, 2008.

11/04/08 - Obama's Vote

Democratic presidential nominee U.S. Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) (R) and his wife, Michelle Obama, vote in Chicago, Illinois.

11/03/08 - Obama's Grandmother Dies

Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) cries while speaking about his grandmother during a rally at University of North Carolina in Charlotte, North Carolina. Madelyn Dunham, grandmother of Obama, died today of cancer at age 86. Obama continues to campaigns on the eve of Election day with the polls still showing him leading in the race against the Republican presidential nominee U.S. Sen. John McCain (R-AZ). Photo by Getty Images.