DAILY SNAPSHOT
Thursday, August 20, 2015

"Letters to President Obama"

Today, we launched a new Tumblr account called "Letters to President Obama," highlighting some of the letters that people across America have written to the President.

Every day, the Office of Presidential Correspondence receives thousands of letters, and every night the President personally reads 10 of them. By letter and by email, Americans write in about the issues that affect them and their families.

It's one of the ways the President can hear directly from Americans about their lives, and it's one of the ways that the stories and voices of Americans across the country directly inform policymaking by the President and the White House.

Follow our new Tumblr account, and see some of the letters that Americans have written to President Obama.

A letter from Natoma Canfield, a woman from Ohio that President Barack Obama met who didn’t have health insurance, hangs on the wall in the hall between the Oval Office and the President's Private Office in the West Wing. June 28, 2012. (Official White House Photo by Lawrence Jackson)

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"I'm so grateful to have a President who truly cares about the people that he serves."