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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And it's a vet, you know, who's still trying to find his path after he's no longer serving.
And people are really...
raw in their emotions in some of these letters, partly because they don't expect the president's actually going to read it.
It's almost like a meditation for them, a way of getting stuff off their chest.
And so whenever I watch that, I get kind of... Yeah, I can see that.
Yeah, I get choked up.
You're getting a little choked up now.
If there's one exhibit that...
People should take the time right after the Oval Office, which everybody will go to just so they can take a picture of the apples and everything else that might be in there.
Sit in the chair.
Just come around on the side and there'll be those letters and there'll be a video that's looping.
And take the time to watch that.
Because I think that, as much as anything, captures...
what I always hoped the spirit of my presidency was.
A sense of generosity towards each other.
A sense of that everybody counts and everybody matters and that
when we act on that basic presumption, when we extend grace to each other, when we're willing to fight for that idea without sacrificing,
a recognition of the humanity of those that we're fighting against.
If we can manage that, even if it's messy and not always perfect, then I think this country does well and the world does better.
You are America.
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