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🗓️ 30 November 2017
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Former Chief White House Photographer Pete Souza chats with David about serving under two presidents, his first encounter with Barack Obama, working as a photojournalist during the war in Afghanistan, and more.
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0:00.0 | And now, from the University of Chicago Institute of Politics and CNN, the Axviles, with your |
0:12.6 | host, David Axelrod. |
0:17.3 | You know, it's a cliche that a picture's worth of thousand words. |
0:21.1 | In Pete's Sousa's case, one of his pictures is worth ten thousand words, really one of |
0:25.6 | the great photojournalists on the planet. |
0:28.8 | Pete's had a long, distinguished career in photojournalism, as well as the official photographer |
0:35.3 | for two American presidents. |
0:37.8 | He cataloged the Obama presidency. |
0:41.7 | I travel with him quite a bit during those years. |
0:45.2 | Now he has a book out of 300 of the 1.9 million photos he took during those years that really |
0:52.4 | tell the story of the administration. |
0:54.2 | Pete came to the Institute of Politics at the University of Chicago to display and talk |
1:00.2 | about that work. |
1:01.8 | And we got a chance to sit down and talk about his extraordinary career and experiences |
1:07.6 | chronicling history. |
1:12.4 | Pete Sousa, my old buddy, it's good to see you. |
1:16.8 | I knew you before you were a cult figure. |
1:19.1 | So I'm glad to see you. |
1:23.7 | Thanks for being here and at the University of Chicago at the Institute of Politics. |
1:28.1 | Looking forward to your presentation. |
1:29.6 | Hey, man, I'm excited to be here. |
1:32.5 | So I want to ask you a bunch of questions that I should have asked you all those times |
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