President Obama & Nichelle Nichols (Lt Uhura) and an angry unidentified man in the background:

[MiddleFingerMom]

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[cali]

1. yes. JFK was every bit as photogenic

and in his own way, I think FDR was very photogenic. Not to take anything away from President Obama.

[goclark]

3. Yes JFK was a knock out

and a class act. His family knew how to be RICH and FAMOUS with such style and grace.

President Obama, IMO, is the right President for this time ~ he has style, youth and smarts , he represents all that is great about America..

[MiddleFingerMom]

11. JFK and Roosevelt were my thoughts for 2nd and 3rd, too.

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JFK was extremely photogenic. I think it's the unbridled raw humanity that comes through
in so many of President Obama's photos that puts him head-and-shoulders above even JFK.
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And Roosevelt took some VERY impressive photos, though he was no contender for spots
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[Bonobo]

2. Very presidential looking. nt

[dballance]

4. Great Pic. I love Nichelle Nichols

I was really too young to have watched the original series as it ran in the '66-'69 time frame. When I started watching it in re-runs in the '70s I guess some sort of change had occurred. I didn't think twice about the fact there was an African-American, female officer on the bridge of the starship or that there was such diversity on the starship.

Not only was Lt. Uhura a bridge officer but there were at least a couple of episodes where I clearly remember she was was given the con when Kirk, Spock, etc. went on an away mission. I remember her being in that center chair when Kirk came back on the bridge.

Little did my naive self know how huge that was for the time.

So it's pretty appropriate Ms. Nichols is posing with President Obama. Each of them pioneers and examples in their own way. They have made a difference and the world will never be the same again. I'd like to think they did their part to make it a better place.

Remember the word "Uhura" in Swahli means freedom.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

5. If I'm not mistaken, she pioneered the first interracial kiss on American television

with William Shatner in 1968 on Star Trek. Some claim the first was the kiss between Nancy Sinatra and Sammy Davis Jr. in 1967 but that was just a peck on the cheek and not a full-on, mouth to mouth kiss.

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[geckosfeet]

7. Her and William Shatner. The "librul" networks were scarred stiff to air it.

[FunkyLeprechaun]

9. Aha... using the term "first interracial kiss" here is tricky

In this case, I'd have to say that it was the first "black and white" kiss on television. If you wanted to use the term "the first interracial kiss," that honor would have to go to Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz (Lucy was a white Anglo-American and Desi was a brown-skinned Hispanic man from Cuba). Lucy and Desi were also the first interracial couple on television. Even before "I Love Lucy" started, CBS questioned whether it was realistic for show to have a white woman to be married to a Hispanic man even though Lucy and Desi were married to each other in real life. Desi is perceived as white though in some circles even though many photographs of him (including black and white) show him as being dark-skinned.

Another piece of factoid though- Lucille Ball produced Star Trek .

[xmas74]

12. It was actually supposed to be Leonard Nimoy and Nichelle Nichols

but William Shatner, being William Shatner, had to be the kisser.

He had to have first dibs at all the ladies. He was James T. Kirk, dammit!

[Shankapotomus]

6. Interesting fact about Ms. Nichols

She originally planned to leavee the part of Lt. at the end of the first season but it was a talk with Martin Luther King that changed her mind.

[longship]

8. Nichelle is more awesome than just Star Trek.

See for yourself: Uhura.com and be impressed of what she's doing with being a bridge officer on a fictional TV program. It is awesome. That's why Obama wanted to meet her.

BTW, she's 79 years old and still looks beautiful.

BTW, If Kirk and Spock were killed, she might have been in command. She was the top bridge officer.

And BTW, I have watched the latest ST movie many times. It sucks because it does such damage to the previously established story line. Most prominently is the Uhura/Spock sappy, kissy-face love affair. Just that destroys everything we previously knew about Spock, and especially about Uhura. No military organization would tolerate a high ranking officer to have an open affair with a subordinate officer.

That movie sucked!

But Nichelle Nichols is awesome.

[1-Old-Man]

10. What, you don't think Nixon or Johnson had a pretty face?

[Kali]

13. BWAHAHHA!!

and a kick

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