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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See what you think.
That's fine.
You know, I think that what I'm interested in is seeing –
how people respond when they visit.
I appreciate architecture enough to know that it'll be 20 years before we have a sense of how the architecture fits into people's imaginations and whether it lasts or not.
But what you can know right away is
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 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 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.
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