Michele Norris
speaker
715 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
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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But many of the visitors have told us that it also feels like an oasis.
One magazine writer said the exhibits feel like a pep talk from a more hopeful era.
And while presidential libraries are not usually associated with merriment, there are elements of joy throughout the center.
You will hear the music of the Obama era at the White House.
Aretha and Prince and Bruce Springsteen and Stevie Wonder.
You'll see art everywhere, stained glass and sculpture and floor-to-ceiling installations.
The President and Mrs. Obama commissioned 28 different pieces of original art placed all around the campus.
And then, of course, you can take a trip down memory lane through two presidential terms.
Copies of big speeches the president marked up my hand, a binder full of bugs and critters named after Barack Obama, the marshmallow air cannon from the White House Science Fair.
Oh!
Good luck charms the president carried around in his pocket.
The momentous day in June of 2015 when the Supreme Court legalized gay marriage.
And then later that same day, the president sang Amazing Grace at a funeral for a victim of the Charleston church shooting.
The place shows visitors the details, big and small, of the Obama White House and the Obama story.
By the way, my suitcases were not on top of the car.
And not everything here is behind glass.
I like this.
Mm-hmm.
It's tactile.
Here you can lay your own palm on top of a clay imprint of the president's hand when he was just a young boy.
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