In this task, you will be presented with a passage and have to answer a question based on your understanding of the events inferred from the passage. Try to find the best answer that is most likely to fill in "_". Note that the URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].

[EX Q]: (CNN) -- The Washington Post's Chris Cillizza recently gave President Barack Obama his "Worst Year in Washington" award. Indeed, Cillizza wrote that there was a growing sense among the public that "Obama simply isn't up to the job to which he was elected twice." But while it's hard to argue that Obama has not had a difficult 12 months, the notion that this President is somehow done or a lame duck just doesn't feel quite right. The fact is the office of the president is still the most dynamic change agent in our political system. And unlike Congress or the Supreme Court, which go in and out of session, the President is on 24/7, with significant power at his disposal, a point underscored by recent initiatives on immigration, climate change and Cuba.Aaron David Miller: President Obama is not the appeaser in chief his detractors claimMiller: President doubled down in Afghanistan in 2009, had Osama bin Laden killedObama is a committed internationalist, Miller saysPresident can feel the pull of wanting to leave a positive legacy, he says 
 Question:"My presidency's entering the fourth quarter," _ said in a press conference Friday.
[EX A]: Barack Obama

[EX Q]: It’s the story that has swept the Internet and cast a light on the seedy underbelly of a world of stripping and prostitution. Narrated by former Hooter’s waitress, turned stripper and hooker, Aziah King, under the twitter name Zola, hers was a remarkable account of a weekend in Florida with a girl named Jess that slid from stripping to prostitution and culminated in kidnap, murder and attempted suicide. Zola’s breathless twitter posts – 148 in all – have even gained the attention of Hollywood, with Selma director Ava DuVernay praising her storytelling ability, while twitter has blown up with suggestions of who could play the lead characters in the movie of the tale.Jarrett Scott one of the men at the center of the Zola story told DailyMail Online that it’s almost all fakeJarrett, 22, ex-boyfriend of Jessica Swiatkowski, said the Florida trip descended into a tawdry weekend he wanted no part inSince Zola posted story on Twitter, Jess issued rebuttal with both girls casting themselves as pimp and the other as prostituteThe one point on which they all agree is that Aziah and Jess met while Aziah was Jess’s waitress at Hooters in Novi, MichiganZola claims in the tale that she traveled FL with a girl named Jess to dance at strip clubs, but eventually ended up pimping Jess outStory has swept the Internet and cast a light on the seedy underbelly of a world of stripping and prostitution 
 Question:In the lengthy post, she said that it is true that she met Aziah, or _, while eating with a good friend at Hooters.
[EX A]: Zola

[EX Q]: Dozens of aging U.S. veterans, many in their early 90s and some in wheelchairs, gathered on the tiny, barren island of Iwo Jima on Saturday to mark the 70th anniversary of one of the bloodiest and most iconic battles of World War II. More than 30 veterans flown in from the U.S. island territory of Guam toured the black sand beaches where they invaded the deeply dug-in forces of the island's Japanese defenders in early 1945. They were bused to the top of Mount Suribachi, an active volcano, where an Associated Press photo of the raising of the American flag while the battle was still raging became a potent symbol of hope and valor to a war-weary public back home that was growing increasingly disillusioned with the seemingly unending battle in the Pacific.More than 30 veterans flew to the island of Iwo Jima, Japan, on SaturdayThe 1945 battle was one of the bloodiest of World War 11Represents a major invasion and win for the U.S.The Battle of Iwojima lasted about a monthAbout 22,000 Japanese soldiers and 7,000 U.S. servicemen died 
 Question:Though a tiny volcanic crag, the island — now called Ioto or Iwoto on Japanese maps — was deemed strategically important because it was being used by the _ to launch air attacks on American bombers.
[EX A]:
Japanese