Michele Norris
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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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Criminal justice reform, close the gun show loophole, voting rights legislation.
Looking back at it now, that list is stunning in its ambition.
For all he got done over eight years in office, President Obama did not get as far as he wanted on criminal justice reform or gun safety.
He did not get to sign new voting rights legislation.
His list on its face might seem like a counterintuitive choice to be displayed in a presidential museum, a big, yellow, neatly scrawled reminder to the country of all the ways his administration came up short.
For all the very real progress America's made over the past seven years, we still have some unfinished business.
But for President Obama, that reminder is intentional.
The unfinished business of his administration is part of the story that he wanted to tell.
Displaying the list of priorities is a deliberate way of reminding Americans that governing is difficult, that friction is the price we pay for pushing toward change,
and that progress is now up to the American people.
They have inherited what President Obama likes to call the work that remains at a time when this country is wrestling with deep questions about citizenship, democracy, and America's place in the world.
When you and the First Lady started thinking about this, you...
had no idea what would be going on in America.
You have to do a little bit of sort of crystal ball thinking as you're putting this together.
How did you make sure that as you were thinking about the design and the exhibits and the message that you were able to meet the moment?
You know, I don't know that we were trying to prognosticate and say, all right, well, here's where things are going to be, and so we want to make sure we do this or that.
the words that are wrapped around the top of the tower.
The speech from Selma, the anniversary.
Is the anniversary of the Selma speech.
I've often said that may not be my very best speech, but it is most representative of what I believe.
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