Award-winning journalist Jonathan Alter on Obama's first year
President Barack Obama speaks to military personnel at Naval Air Station Pensacola's Naval Air Technical Training Center in Pensacola, Fla.
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Jonathan Alter, Newsweek columnist and author of "The Promise: President Obama, Year One" speaks at the Westminster Town Hall Forum.
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