Barack Obama
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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 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.
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 your chair.
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.
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