Barack Obama
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4,407 appearances
173 recordings
59 series
first heard Dec 2012
last heard 3d ago
Barack Obama’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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presidential stuff.
So you delegate a bunch of decisions and say, I'll worry about that later.
But look, it's been a long journey.
You had COVID in between, which obviously threw off schedules and budgets in all kinds of ways.
We literally started
construction, and then suddenly COVID hits.
That changed things a lot.
We're not alone in that.
And the great thing about it, though, was I think there was a consistency of
vision on what we were trying to accomplish with the Center.
That didn't vary much.
Michelle and I had a very clear sense that we wanted this to be a place that would attract visitors from around the world, that would record what happened during
my presidency, but that more than anything was a vital, alive, dynamic place for the south side of Chicago and the city of Chicago for kids in the neighborhood, that it was going to be used.
And that, I think, more than anything, shaped how we thought about what this thing would end up being.
The location...
in part was determined by the fact that this is the epicenter of my life in Chicago.
Within a four or five mile radius of that site, I first came to Chicago.
I got my first apartment there.
I met my wife there.
My children were born there.
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