Obama meets with Alabama captain in Oval Office

President Obama met Saturday with the captain of the Maersk Alabama ship who was captured for days by Somali pirates last month.

The White House released a photo of Captain Richard Phillips and his wife, Andrea, meeting with Obama in the Oval Office.

Phillips will attend this evening’s White House Correspondents’ Association dinner as a guest of Bloomberg News.

View a photo of the meeting below:

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