President Obama Makes His Third Visit to the Gulf Coast

President Barack Obama travels to Louisiana to further assess the latest efforts to counter the BP oil spill.

President Barack Obama walks to the tarmac field house at Louis Armstrong International Airport in New Orleans, La., June 4, 2010, with Rep. Joseph Cao, R-La., Sen. David Vitter, R-La., and New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu, right, for a briefing on the response to the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)

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