Barack Obama
speaker
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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My wife grew up there.
Our wedding reception was there.
I made my announcement for my first presidential
or for my first political campaign there.
I taught law school there.
So that was part of what made that site so attractive to us.
But as you say, one of the things that I learned when I moved to Chicago, and one of the things that Michelle had firsthand experience with growing up in Chicago was that
even though the South Side of Chicago runs on the lakefront just like the North Side of Chicago does.
For a whole bunch of historical reasons, the parks, the open spaces, the public facilities in those communities were underinvested in relative to other neighborhoods in Chicago.
And so for a long time I would,
drive through Lincoln Park in the north side of Chicago and you'd look around and there are people playing volleyball and there are tennis courts and there are kiosks and there's programming and museums.
And then Jackson Park, which was just as beautiful, was empty.
And that sent a message.
And
When I was organizing and when I was serving as a state legislator, I was always shocked when you'd hear stories from kids who would say, well, I've actually never gone to the lakefront.
They lived in Englewood, but it's just, it felt foreign to them.
Welcome, His Majesty, King Abdullah, to the White House.
Got all the patents that we had in there?
And I know the couches are the same because Michael Smith...
New way to get the fabric.
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