"Everyone had seen me crying and misting up for basically the previous three weeks, so Malia, who's very thoughtful, she goes, 'Dad, you know, I've got this lamp in this box, could you put the desk lamp together?' I said, 'Sure.' It should have taken five minutes or three minutes, and it had one of those little tools. In the first episode of David Letterman's Netflix series, My Next Guest Needs No Introduction, he expanded on the story, telling the host he was almost no help at all moving Malia into her dorm room. “I was proud that I did not cry in front of her but on the way back, the Secret Service was looking straight ahead pretending they weren’t hearing me as I sniffled and blew my nose. “For those of us who have daughters, it just happens fast,” Obama said. He later revealed that he got emotional when dropping her off. In August of that year, he was spotted on Harvard University's campus with Michelle, moving their oldest child, Malia, into her dorm room. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award.’='true Getty Images It belongs in the White House, and that's why I'm so proud to endorse Joe Biden for president of the United States." That kind of leadership doesn't just belong in our state capitals and mayors' offices. He said, in part, that he admired, "The kind of leadership that's guided by knowledge and experience, honesty and humility, empathy and grace. While Obama chose to hold off on publicly endorsing a candidate in the 2020 election for several months during the primaries, in April 2020 after his former Vice President Joe Biden emerged as the party leader, Obama shared a video where he commended Biden as a leader and offered his official endorsement.
The former president is said to have written the book himself-rather than with a ghost writer-in longhand on legal pads, a method he employed on a number of his presidential speeches and his first book, Dreams from My Father.
The memoir, which explores his experiences from his early political aspirations to his historic win in the 2008 presidential election, is expected to be the first of multiple volumes covering his political career. While Michelle's book, Becoming, debuted in November of 2018 to enormous fanfare, selling more than 10 million copies worldwide to become one of the most successful memoirs ever, Obama's own venture, A Promised Land, was first released in 2020. Like his wife, Michelle, Obama signed a record-setting book deal after leaving the White House in 2017 for his memoir with publisher Penguin Random House.
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