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New man on the Hill (Barack Obama)
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| Contributor | COSDem |
| Last Edited | COSDem Mar 20, 2005 05:29pm |
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| Media | Newspaper - Chicago Tribune |
| News Date | Sunday, March 20, 2005 11:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Barack Obama was determined to get to the White House, if someone could just show him the way.
It was his first day in Washington, the afternoon before he would swear an oath to become the junior U.S. senator from Illinois, which would make him the icon so many Democrats were craving. But already, he was in a quandary that even his celebrity could not fix.
As fast as his long legs could carry him, Obama walked from his basement office to the Capitol, trying to make up time eaten away by strangers asking for an autograph, a picture or, if he didn't mind, just a moment of his time. Along the way, he had gotten lost in a staircase and taken the wrong exit out of the building, but the bus ferrying new members of Congress to see President Bush would surely wait for the star of the freshman class, wouldn't it?
This was an early lesson that the clock, at least in Washington, would no longer revolve solely around Obama.
His aides, perhaps not so enamored by an invitation to the Republican White House, tried to gently convince him he would likely miss the appointment. They told reporters in Obama's cramped office not to bother trooping to the opposite end of Pennsylvania Avenue, where the president would be speaking in the East Room |
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