“I remember telling Michelle and some of my staff, ‘You know, I think that if I were to win, the day I was sworn into office, young people - particularly African American people, people of color, outsiders, folks who maybe didn’t always feel like they belonged - they’d look at themselves differently to see a person who looked like them in the Oval Office. The former president says, “I think this picture embodies one of the hopes that I’d had when I first started running for office. A framed copy of the Souza photo hangs in Obama’s office.
