Barack Obama carried out his presidencies with dignity and never embarrassed the country. Indeed there hasn’t been a tone-deaf moment in his two terms, and he will be missed, writes Elizabeth Drew

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A Harvard professor and the police officer who arrested him have agreed to meet with US President Barack Obama at the White House on Thursday.

BARACK OBAMA defended his criticism of police officers in the arrest of Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr as law enforcement groups and Republicans called the president’s remarks out of place.

POLICE responding to a call about “two black males” breaking into a home near Harvard University in the US ended up arresting the man who lives there – Henry Louis Gates Jr, the nation’s pre-eminent black scholar.