6. Obama's Beer Summit
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Harvard University Professor Henry Louis Gates, Cambridge Police Sgt. James Crowley, and President Barack Obama drink beer in the Rose Garden at the White House on July 30, 2009.
The arrest of Obama pal and Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates by a white Cambridge, Mass., cop, prompting the president to hold a race-laced beer summit outside the Oval Office. Since the summit, tensions in the case have eased.
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