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In 2009, at the FDR Memorial in D.C., 100,000 students will sign their name on a historic document to pledge to stand together as a country and help better America. This historic document will be presented to government offices and archived at the Library of Congress.
Now is your chance to vote on what topics will be included in that document! From the list of issues that face our country today, select the top four issues that are most important to you.
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"Do you think the government should bail out the “Big Three” automobile companies: Ford, Chrysler, and General Motors?"
 
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President-elect Barack Obama will become the 44th President of the United States. Here are some interesting facts about our nation’s next president:
- He will be the U.S.’s first African-American president.
- He will be the first president from Hawaii or from outside the mainland United States.
- His father was a goat herder from Kenya who came to the U.S. on a scholarship.
- He lived in Indonesia as a boy.
- At 47 years old, he is the fifth-youngest person to be elected as president, after Theodore Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, Bill Clinton, and Ulysses S. Grant.
- He is the first senator to be elected as president since John F. Kennedy in 1960.
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