Barack Obama
speaker
4,407 appearances
173 recordings
59 series
first heard Dec 2012
last heard 2d ago
Barack Obama’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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that people enjoy being there, right?
And if, as it seems so far they do,
if people feel excited by the space and inspired by the space and it's usable and it's fun and kids are in the playground and folks who are going through the museum are absorbing good energy and feel like, you know what?
maybe I can go out there and do something too.
And they get to the Sky Room and they look around and see
a panorama of Chicago and their own neighborhood that they've never seen before.
And community groups are having meetings there and, you know, folks are using a recording studio to film their own podcasts or make their own videos and kids are sitting in that public library and reading and excited about reading.
If all that stuff's happening,
then we will have achieved what we're trying to achieve.
Not in my ability to bring about change, but in yours.
I've talked about this.
Right outside the Oval Office, we have a sampling of the 10 letters that I used to receive every night.
I think we got something like 40,000 pieces of correspondence every day.
For eight years during while I was in the White House.
And we had an entire letter correspondence office just responding to the public's letters.
And that office would select 10 representative letters for me to
read each day, they'd put in my folder at the top of my briefing book, and I'd usually save those for after I was finished with reading all the stuff I had to read.
And I initiated that as a way of staying in touch with people, especially early on when we were going through so many difficult decisions.
And so there's a display that has a sampling of those letters, but the exhibition team made this wonderful short video, this vignette, of a few of those letters.
And whenever I watch those, because it's Mother talking about, you know, Mr. President, I'm struggling.
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