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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A detail everyone who's ever spent time in the real Oval Office will make sure you know.
Do we think these are real apples?
I do not.
He actually ate the apples also.
Everybody came in and took apples, particularly kids.
Don't try to eat those.
No, I figured that those aren't real apples.
What do you want people to take from this space?
That was Michael Smith.
He's the interior designer who was chosen by President Obama in 2009.
for the makeover of the real Oval Office.
It was a case where Mr. Smith goes to Washington and then to Chicago to make sure the replica here is just right.
Michael Smith is a close personal friend of the former president.
Smith understands how the president thinks and how he works.
And on our personal tour, he explained how they work together on every detail inside this room, including the apples.
Well, here we are.
You didn't change the Oval Office right away because if we, you know, let's go back in the Wayback Machine, we remember that President Obama inherited a financial crisis.
Yes.
And so a decision was made that you were going to leave the Oval as it was, as he inherited it, because?
Samuel L.B.
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