Day One

From Congress Daily:

President Obama stepped into the Oval Office at 8:30 a.m. today, starting his first full day in office by focusing on two of the biggest promises he made during the campaigning -- winding down the war in Iraq and righting a battered economy. Obama's schedule included meetings with the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Gen. David Petraeus, the former U.S. commander in Iraq, and, this afternoon, a session with his economic advisers. Obama has set a 16-month timetable for withdrawing U.S. troops but will need to deal with the economy on a much shorter timetable. "Fortunately, we've seen Congress immediately start working on the economic recovery package, getting that passed and putting people back to work," Obama said in an interview with ABC News. "That's going to be the thing we'll be most focused on."