From candidate to president: Obama’s call of history
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Channel: Washington Week PBS · 2017 · News & Politics
Five months after leaving the Oval Office, President Barack Obama is reemerging on the global stage and trying to find his place as a former president. The New York Times’s chief White House correspondent Peter Baker covered Obama’s two terms in office and has written a new book “Obama: The Call of History.” He shares some of the pivotal moments during Obama’s presidency including the economic recovery, wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, terrorism, the killing of Osama bin Laden and the rise of Donald Trump.
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