Michele Norris
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 20 Jun
Michele Norris’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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They don't just want you to look back at what he did during his eight years in office.
They want you to feel some sense of responsibility for what needs to happen next.
Maybe a way to think about the Presidential Center and what at least we tried to create is some touchstones, some markers, some tools for people to just be reminded of, oh yeah, this is what our democracy is.
This is who we are.
We don't have to distrust each other.
We don't have to
hate each other.
We don't have to scapegoat each other.
We could actually try to find common ground and work together to do some good.
We're going to hear so much more from President Obama tonight, as well as former First Lady Michelle Obama.
We had a chance to have a good long chat with both of them, and they talked about their vision for this place and much more.
And if you're not here in Chicago, well, you might as well be, because we have gotten an early look inside this sprawling center.
And tonight, we're going to give you an inside look at the building, the campus, and the story Barack and Michelle Obama want to tell the nation and the world.
If you had asked the young Barack Obama what he wanted to be when he grew up, he might have told you that his dream was to be an architect.
That boyhood ambition of his helps to explain why the story of the Obama Presidential Center starts not with a traditional library or a monument or even a dusty box of papers from the archives, but with the walls themselves.
What you see here is the main building at the Obama Presidential Center, more than 200 feet tall, built from granite the president handpicked himself.
The architects based their design of the building on the image of four hands joined together.
They wanted the building to look as if these hands are holding a lantern or a light of some kind, like a giant beacon here on Chicago's South Side.
And there, as you can see in the top corner curving around the edge of the building, is the text of the speech President Obama delivered on the 50th anniversary of the march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma.
unencumbered by what is, because you're ready to seize what ought to be.
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