The President wakes up pretty early, but his routine usually includes a morning workout before heading into the office.
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He arrives at the Oval Office between 8:30 and 9 a.m., and gets a rundown on the day's schedule from his personal secretary, Ferial Govashiri (right).
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At around 10 a.m., he receives the classified Presidential Daily Briefing from his National Security Advisor. Sometimes the briefing is delivered via tablet.
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The contents of the brief provides the President with new intelligence he needs to know and alerts him to possible crises in the world.
If he's in the middle of a legislative battle, the President will meet with congressional leaders on both sides.
There are also the 'handshake sessions', where Obama briefly meets and greets people in the White House.
On other days, the President will host a world leader. Here he is in 2012 with then-Afghan President Hamid Karzai.
And if he takes a short trip outside D.C. on the Marine One helicopter, he's not going to escape the meetings. There's often someone with him (like British PM David Cameron here) hoping for some of the President's limited time.
But the work doesn't totally stop. He often works on paperwork or writes until 11:30pm or so.
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