President Barack Obama with speechwriter Cody Keenan, who dressed as a pirate for an Oval Office photo shot for use in the President's speech to the White House Correspondents Association dinner May 9, 2009. "But as I said during the campaign, we can't just talk to our friends. As hard as it is, we also have to talk to our enemies, and I've begun to do exactly that" the President said in his speech. Official White House Photo by Pete Souza.

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