Photos: President Obama visits Los Angeles

Bruce Springsteen performs at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza Hotel’s Shoah Foundation event at which President Obama was honored.   (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)

Conan O’Brien ribs President Obama for the traffic problems that preceded the Shoah Foundation event at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza Hotel, at which Obama was honored.   (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)

Director Steven Spielberg congratulates President Obama at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza Hotel after presenting him with the Shoah Foundation’s Ambassadors for Humanity award, its highest honor.   (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)

President Obama addresses the audience at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza Hotel after he received the Shoah Foundation’s Ambassadors for Humanity award.   (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)

President Obama greets USC President C. L. Max Nikias at a Shoah Foundation gala held at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza hotel, where the president was to receive the foundation’s highest award for his global efforts to protect human rights.  (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)

President Obama joins film director Steven Spielberg at the Shoah Foundation gala where the president was to be honored for his efforts to protect human rights. Spielberg founded the foundation.   (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)

A demonstrator dressed as Goofy greets President Obama’s motorcade at Sunset Boulevard and Bel-Air Road to protest the Keystone XL oil pipeline project.  (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times)

A police officer orders a protester dressed as Frostypaws the Polar Bear off the street during a demonstration against the the Keystone XL pipeline project during President Obama’s visit to Bel-Air.   (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times)

President Obama exits Marine One at Cheviot Hills Park in Los Angeles on Wednesday.   (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)

Marine One, with President Obama on board, hovers over Cheviot Hills Park.  (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)

Marine One prepares to land at Cheviot Hills Park.  (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)

The president’s car in front of the Bel-Air home of Cindy and Alan Horn, where he attended a fundraiser.

People try to get a glimpse of the president as his motorcade passes in Los Angeles.   (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)

Ileene Anderson, a senior scientist for the Center for Biological Diversity, demonstrates in a Goofy costume in Bel-Air, where President Obama was attending a fundraiser at the home of Walt Disney Studios Chairman Alan Horn. Anderson was protesting the Keystone XL pipeline.

People demonstrate against the Keystone XL pipeline in Bel-Air.  (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times)

President Obama with Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti after arriving at Los Angeles International Airport.   (Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times)

President Obama greets people at LAX.   (Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times)

Mayor Eric Garcetti welcomes President Obama at LAX.   (Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times)