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There is something powerful about watching someone walk through an idea they once could only imagine. As President Obama toured the exhibits with Valerie Jarrett, one thing became clear: this space was never meant to tell just one story. The Obama Presidential Center opens June 19.

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Here’s President Obama’s priceless reaction to the almost finished Obama Presidential Center Museum. President Obama and Obama Foundation CEO Valerie Jarrett toured the Presidential Center Museum, as we prepare to open to the public June 19. They spent time appreciating the details, noticing the special touches and imagining all the ways visitors from around the world and across the city will make this place their own.
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Here’s President Obama’s priceless reaction to the almost finished Obama Presidential Center Museum. President Obama and Obama Foundation CEO Valerie Jarrett toured the Presidential Center Museum, as we prepare to open to the public June 19. They spent time appreciating the details, noticing the special touches and imagining all the ways visitors from around the world and across the city will make this place their own.

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President and Mrs. Obama have had a partnership from their earliest days, and the Obama Presidential Center Museum reflects this. The love, and sense of humor, that keeps them connected was obvious when President Obama recently toured the Museum with Valerie Jarrett.
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President and Mrs. Obama have had a partnership from their earliest days, and the Obama Presidential Center Museum reflects this. The love, and sense of humor, that keeps them connected was obvious when President Obama recently toured the Museum with Valerie Jarrett.

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The first speaker at the Obama Presidential Center opening joked about Obama's famous tan suit before reminding everyone why the center was built. "This is more than just a building. It's a promise." A very Obama way to open an Obama Presidential Center. 💙
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They were not just programs. They were promises. That’s what Michelle Obama says about the initiatives she focused on in her eight years as First Lady. Throughout the Obama Presidential Center Museum, visitors will encounter the four initiatives that she said served as pledges made to millions of people around the world. Recently, Mrs. Obama reflected on her White House initiatives, and explained why Let's Move!, Joining Forces, Reach Higher, and Let Girls Learn mattered: “There is so much hope, so much potential, inside every single one of us,” Mrs. Obama shared. “And I just hoped to use my platform to help more people reach theirs.” The Obama Presidential Center opens to the public on June 19 in Chicago's Jackson Park.

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During his presidency, President Obama read 10 letters a day from Americans who’d taken the time to write to him about their worries, hopes, and, often, their requests for help. These letters were hand-picked from the thousands of emails and handwritten notes that the White House received daily, and were representative of the day’s mail. The President read the 10 letters at night, and later often visited letter writers in their hometowns and spoke about how these messages inspired him and his policies. As President Obama toured the exhibits with Obama Foundation CEO Valerie Jarrett, he reflected on those letters and how they’re brought to life in the Museum today. The letters are paired with a deeply moving film created by Chicago’s own Manual Cinema, which beautifully illustrates the stories of letter writers as diverse as a worried veteran, a hopeful refugee and a joyful adoptee. The Obama Presidential Center opens June 19.
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During his presidency, President Obama read 10 letters a day from Americans who’d taken the time to write to him about their worries, hopes, and, often, their requests for help. These letters were hand-picked from the thousands of emails and handwritten notes that the White House received daily, and were representative of the day’s mail. The President read the 10 letters at night, and later often visited letter writers in their hometowns and spoke about how these messages inspired him and his policies. As President Obama toured the exhibits with Obama Foundation CEO Valerie Jarrett, he reflected on those letters and how they’re brought to life in the Museum today. The letters are paired with a deeply moving film created by Chicago’s own Manual Cinema, which beautifully illustrates the stories of letter writers as diverse as a worried veteran, a hopeful refugee and a joyful adoptee. The Obama Presidential Center opens June 19.

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Former President Barack Obama urged Americans to reject “cynicism and division” at the opening of the Obama Presidential Center on Chicago’s South Side. The center, which is somewhat a departure from the traditional presidential library model, is designed as a community gathering space, with a 19-acre park and a public library branch.
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Former President Barack Obama urged Americans to reject “cynicism and division” at the opening of the Obama Presidential Center on Chicago’s South Side. The center, which is somewhat a departure from the traditional presidential library model, is designed as a community gathering space, with a 19-acre park and a public library branch.

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It was great talking to Stephen and the inspiring young people we’ve worked with at the The Obama Foundation on the The Late Show. When the Obama Presidential Center opens this June 19, my hope is that this will be a place where people can come together to meet, learn, and work with each other to create change in their communities. Learn more at
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It was great talking to Stephen and the inspiring young people we’ve worked with at the The Obama Foundation on the The Late Show. When the Obama Presidential Center opens this June 19, my hope is that this will be a place where people can come together to meet, learn, and work with each other to create change in their communities. Learn more at

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Chicago native Jennifer Hudson opened the Obama Presidential Center ceremony with the National Anthem and "The Impossible Dream." The center is about Barack Obama, but moments like this are a reminder that it's also a love letter to the South Side. Chicago showed up for one of its own. 💙
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Chicago native Jennifer Hudson opened the Obama Presidential Center ceremony with the National Anthem and "The Impossible Dream." The center is about Barack Obama, but moments like this are a reminder that it's also a love letter to the South Side. Chicago showed up for one of its own. 💙

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Temu Obama is worried about Trump using the DoJ as "an arm of the President." He was silent and happy as whoever controlled Biden did just that to Trump and EVERYONE they could around him. Karma
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Temu Obama is worried about Trump using the DoJ as "an arm of the President." He was silent and happy as whoever controlled Biden did just that to Trump and EVERYONE they could around him. Karma

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During a recent visit to the nearly completed Obama Presidential Center campus, President Obama could barely contain his excitement. Home Court—the new athletic and community center—is finished, the landscaping is coming in, and the vision is truly coming to life."I could not be more excited, because I know not just people here on the south side of Chicago, but visitors from all around the world are going to be able to use this space in an active way.”
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During a recent visit to the nearly completed Obama Presidential Center campus, President Obama could barely contain his excitement. Home Court—the new athletic and community center—is finished, the landscaping is coming in, and the vision is truly coming to life."I could not be more excited, because I know not just people here on the south side of Chicago, but visitors from all around the world are going to be able to use this space in an active way.”

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When Ashley Baia was 9 years old, she told her mom that her favorite food was mustard and relish sandwiches. Telling her mother that was Baia’s way of trying to help keep her family’s food costs down. That’s because Baia’s family went bankrupt after her mother was diagnosed with cancer. She told her mother how much she loved those sandwiches for a year—until her mom got better. Years later, Baia would grow up to be a field organizer in South Carolina on the Obama for America ‘08 campaign, where she forged unlikely relationships across age and race. Obama Foundation CEO Valerie Jarrett told Baia’s story during our Grand Opening because she had such a remarkable experience with Baia at a campaign event. At the event, Baia, who is white, asked a room of people to tell Valerie Jarrett why they supported the Obama campaign. Most people said they were there for a specific issue. But one elderly Black man, having heard Baia’s story about her mother’s illness, said, “I am here because of Ashley.” Baia’s relationship-building was also a touchstone of then-Sen. Barack Obama’s “More Perfect Union” address in March 2008. Valerie Jarrett told Baia’s story as an example of how the Obama Presidential Center will work to bring people together. We are guided by observations like Baia’s: “Ultimately there’s so much that unites us.”

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One of the only things that I'm going to miss after the election is over is listening to former First Lady Michelle Obama give speeches. Here is her full entire speech in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania tonight And as much as I love me some Barack Obama, there's something about the way that Michelle speaks about women's reproductive rights that just hits harder. She's magnificent and Melania Trump could never.
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One of the only things that I'm going to miss after the election is over is listening to former First Lady Michelle Obama give speeches. Here is her full entire speech in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania tonight And as much as I love me some Barack Obama, there's something about the way that Michelle speaks about women's reproductive rights that just hits harder. She's magnificent and Melania Trump could never.

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🚨 JUST IN: President Trump RIPS Barack Hussein Obama for trying to bribe Iran with billions, says the mullahs only know the "HAMMER" "Hussein Obama gave them $1.7 billion in green cash on a 747! Piles of cash! They thought they could bribe them into peace." "The only thing they understand is the HAMMER!"
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