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🗓️ 1 March 2018
⏱️ 59 minutes
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In 2000, Barack Obama ran for Congress against a Chicago political legend. It became a contest about race and identity.
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0:00.0 | I thought he could have been a little more jazzier in the dress. |
0:04.7 | I mean he has sleaze rolled up, you know, his shoes were kind of worn. |
0:08.4 | Where did you get those shoes? |
0:09.9 | You know where do you shop? |
0:11.2 | He was wearing a harmonic tie. |
0:12.6 | I said you can't wear a silk shirt in southern Illinois. |
0:14.9 | One is a hundred degrees playing golf. |
0:18.2 | So this is Office 603 and this was... |
0:21.7 | This is the office where he wrote dreams for my father. |
0:24.0 | No, I think he wrote it lots of other places too, but this is a place you could have found. |
0:28.1 | I'm at the University of Chicago with Law Professor Douglas Beard. |
0:32.6 | He had an office down the hall from Barack Obama for over a decade. |
0:36.7 | The door would usually be shut because he smoked and you're not allowed to do that. |
0:42.0 | After Obama won the state senate election, he reached out to Professor Beard, who by now |
0:46.8 | was the dean of the UFC Law School. |
0:49.4 | Barack calls me up and says, no jeez, I'd like to have dinner with you. |
0:53.2 | We went to the park avenue cafe. |
0:56.4 | That first Beard was vehemently against the idea of Obama going to work in Springfield, |
1:01.7 | the state capital of Illinois. |
1:03.4 | That's a pretty bad idea. |
1:05.2 | You know, first you should be an academic because we knew he was a great teacher at this |
1:07.8 | point. |
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