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During my eight years as

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the Chief Official
White House Photographer

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for the Obama administration,

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I documented all the important
moments of his presidency.

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The emotion,

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the tough decisions,

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the stressful times,

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the fun times.

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But also showing
what he was like as a dad...

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...as a husband,

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just as a human being.

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To me, that shows

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how the job of the president
should be done.

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I think it's my right
as an American citizen

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to speak out when I see wrong.

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And I really come at this
from a unique perspective,

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not just as
a former photojournalist

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but also having worked for

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both the Obama
and Reagan administrations,

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and seeing what it's like on
the inside of a presidency...

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...whether you agree or disagree

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with a president's policies,

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how that president
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I'm gonna throw some
shade tonight, if that's okay.

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But I want to tell you first
how I... how I got there.

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So, if we go back
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President Obama left
his successor a personal note

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and stuck it in the drawer
of the Resolute desk.

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And the last line
of the note was:

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"Michelle and I wish
you and Melania the very best

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"as you embark
on this great adventure.

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"And know that we stand
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"in any ways which we can.

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Good luck, and Godspeed."

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With that, he left the
Oval Office for the last time.

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-Good morning, everybody.

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Good morning, sir.

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Take care, sir.

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-Thank you. -Bye, sir.
-Thank you, guys.

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He went and said goodbyeto the household staff:

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butlers, ushers, groundkeepers.

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And Von Everett,
who is one of the butlers

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and had been there
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you can imagine
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to have been there for the first

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African American president.

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There's a tradition that

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the incoming president
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the morning before the
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After everyone else had
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President Obama took Trump aside

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to brief him on a pending
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Uh, he escorted Trump
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They had to ride
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to the Capitol together.

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The guy on the far left
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He was the head of

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the Presidential
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of the Secret Service.

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And you always see
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behind the president
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As they were leaving the podium,

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I now notice that
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were behind Trump and Melania
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That's when it really hit me

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that this for real had happened.

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You know, if I go back
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...I'm ready for the job
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because, you know, it just takes

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so much out of you
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There was a sense of relief--

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almost excitement--

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that I would not have
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24-7-365
for eight years anymore.

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You have no idea

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how good of a feeling it was
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But there was
a sense of disbelief

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and worry.

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I was-- I really was concerned

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for the... the country.

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To this day,
I have that same feeling.

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I'm not literally
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but I know what happens
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and that's what scares me

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about what's happening today
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After I left the White House,

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I started this
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My intention was to highlight
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that I had made
throughout my career.

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I never intended to be vocal

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in any way
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So, the first day, he came to me

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with his photo that he wanted
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with the president sitting
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and the red curtains,

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and he wrote a caption,
something like,

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"I like the old curtains better.

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What did you think?"

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And I said,
"You can't say that."

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Because he had spent
eight years having no voice

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and no opinion
of what was going on,

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and suddenly,
here's an opinion about drapes.

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And I said, "You can't do that."

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Now, what I didn't tell you is
I had just seen a picture

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of the redecorated Oval Office

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with these gold,
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And there was even a comment
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from somebody that said,

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"Pete is dropping shade
with a comment on drapes."

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And I-I have to admit

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I had no idea
what "dropping shade" meant.

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I knew what I was doing.

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I just didn't know it was calleddropping or throwing shade.

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-Don't be rude.
-Mr. President-elect,

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-can you give us a question?
-Don't be rude.

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You're attacking us.
Can you give us a question?

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-Don't be rude.
-Can you give us a question?

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No, I'm not gonna
give you a que...

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When you report fake news,
which CNN does a lot,

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you are the enemy of the people.

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-Go ahead.
- Mr. President...

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Hi, Pete.

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Welcome to India.

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Thank you.
It's-it's nice to be here.

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Is there hope
for photojournalism?

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I think there's a lot of people
doing a lot of great work,

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but it-it doesn't help

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when the president
of the United States

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calls journalists fake news
and the enemy of the people.

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I think that's really dangerous.

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I-I think our president
is causing grave damage

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to the institution
of the free press.

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We have with us the former

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Chief Official
White House Photographer

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to the U.S. Presidents
Ronald Reagan and Barack Obama.

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-Please welcome to the stage

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Pete Joseph Souza!

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I want to ask you
as a photojournalist--

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your commitment while
photographing is to the truth,

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but when you're the Chief
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uh, when you're consciously
or subconsciously building

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a public image of brand Obama,
was there ever a conflict?

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Yeah, I think
that's a good question.

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I often say to people,
though my background

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is-is a photojournalist,

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certainly, when you're the
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you're-you're working
for the government.

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But so, I didn't ever
think of it as a conflict,

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because it wasn't...
I wasn't a PR photographer.

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I look at myself
as a historian with a camera.

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The job as the Chief OfficialWhite House Photographer

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is to visually document
the presidency for history.

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So, when inauguration
rolled around,

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I had in the back of my mind,

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for the journey
I was about to take,

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this thought:

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make authentic photographs.

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Think mood,

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emotion,

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context.

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Be ready for
the fleeting moments

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both big and small.

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My goal was to create

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the best photographic archive
of a president

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that had ever been done.

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Lasting images for history.

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The origination of my office
was a military office

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during the Kennedy
administration.

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LBJ wanted somebody
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and he hired this guy
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who had traveled with him
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And, you know,
Johnson was such a character

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and Okamoto was
such a great photographer

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that his pictures
are just amazing.

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You know, more than anyone,

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his work was the kind of work
that I wanted to do.

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I wanted the level of access
that Okamoto had to Johnson.

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That's sort of what
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Photographs can tell a story

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just as a book can tell a story.

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And it's a very special thing
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the idea that these people
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Yes, they have
different responsibilities,

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yes, they have
greater anxieties,

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but they're leading a life
that has a daily ritual to it.

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Think I knew
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having worked for
the Reagan administration, too.

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The White House photo editor

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called me up one day
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and said, "We want you
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It was totally unexpected.

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You know, I'm in my 20s,

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and I'd never met
a president before.

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And I was just nervous.

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It was kind of, like, just
sort of overwhelming to me.

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I actually
turned it down at first.

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A, I was not really
that into politics.

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B, I was really not
the biggest fan of Reagan.

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Five ways of photography.

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Well, this is familiar.

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But you hope that
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is important for history, right?

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Used to say journalism is
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And I'm thinking, like,
here's a chance

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to actually be involved
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The Photograph Office,

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primarily, it was myself
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and then Pete--
but we were very much a team.

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Let's lock that sucker down.

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Working at the White House
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official photographer

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was a humbling experience.

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I was recording for history.

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-Now, is Pete in?

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Is Pete nice and clear?

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-Yes.
-Okay. Okay.

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The orchestration of

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television coverage
absorbs the White House.

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They provide pictures of him
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confident with
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A good family man.

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The White House has become

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more and more of a stage,
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and the question has become:

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are the television networks
gonna manage that theater?

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Are they gonna manage
that stage?

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-Or is the White House
gonna do that? -Get ready.

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They were very aware of

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creating the best backdrop
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and Timeand Newsweek.

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Now, do you want us oneither side of the tree or what?

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Well, we...

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I think they want
to do one standing,

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but I think,
for release purposes,

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it'd be better to have you
doing something,

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and my suggestion was
watering the tree.

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We have two shovels.
We have a chain saw.

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-No, please.

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Pete, it's too hot.

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Can we just do
a watering the tree?

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-Watering the tree is fine.
-All right.

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-Uh...
-Ah!

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-Did you get that, Pete?
-Yeah.

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-You did, huh?

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I've got an idea
for another picture.

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-Just one more.

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I've got the chain saw.

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No, and you're blocking me off.

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Stopping me from...

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Don't just stand there.

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You're supposed to be saying no.

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-I'm not gonna start the saw.

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-No.
-What?

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-All right.
-Thank you.

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The amount of access you get

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as the Chief Official
White House Photographer

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is really totally dependent
on the relationship

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that you have
with the president.

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All I tried to do was
push for more access

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for the behind-the-scenes
moments,

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most of which were never seen

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until after he had left
the presidency.

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Some of the pictures
that I would make

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would be fairly intimate.

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After Mrs. Reagan had undergone

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breast cancer surgery
at Bethesda Naval Hospital,

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every day,
at the end of the day,

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he would take the helicopter
and go visit her.

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They were exactly
the same way together

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behind the scenes
as they were in public.

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There was very much a true love

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and companionship
between the-the two of them.

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I always felt the best pictures
I made of-of Reagan

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were not from planned events.

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They were things
that happened between events

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and moments that
you couldn't ever predict--

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they would just happen--
and that really humanizes

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the president
of the United States.

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One of the roles
of commander in chief is

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you send people into harm's way.

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But then the president usually
is the one who has to go talk

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to all the families
who had lost someone.

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He's clearly empathetic
and compassionate,

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and you can see
the emotion in their faces

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as they're looking up
to see what Reagan is saying.

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That's the way
a president should behave

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in times like that.

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In some respects,
I think it did a disservice

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not to show him
in these true, authentic,

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behind-the-scenes moments
more than they did.

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Okay, folks.

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I've always wanted to stand
on the Cabinet Room table.

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-Is it o...

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Is it okay with you,
Mr. President?

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-What'd he put up?
- "Scram."

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And, Mr. President,
just half a step this way.

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He's to the left,
and I'm to the right.

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Another half step.

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Big smiles.

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Here we go.

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Big smile.

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I wanted this time
to talk with you

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about an extremely sensitive

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and profoundly important
matter of foreign policy.

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Certainly, during
the Iran-Contra affair,

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there were a lot of pictures
that I made where he was

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agonizing over what he did
or what he didn't do.

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It was a big scandal.

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I made that picture
where the Tower Commission,

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after this
many-month investigation,

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had concluded that, in fact,

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Reagan had sold arms
for hostages.

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And you see that look
on Reagan's face,

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who was still
somewhat in denial.

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But to me, it really defines
that whole scandal

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and how impactful it was
on his presidency.

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I did not necessarily agree
with some of the things

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that President Reagan was doing.

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For example,

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how long it took him
to come to grips with AIDS.

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I think that, in retrospect,
is more than disappointing.

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But this photo I made of him
holding a baby with HIV

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did help destigmatize
the disease.

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I was naive
and not as politically aware

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as I should have been
at the time.

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But I did feel that
he was a decent human being.

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He respected other people
from all walks of life.

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When, uh, Reagan had,
uh, passed away

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and his body was being flown
to the West Coast,

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uh, Nancy Reagan requested

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that Peter be
on the plane with them.

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And, of course, he had been

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out of the White House
for so many years.

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And Peter did that.

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When I left
the White House under Reagan,

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it wasn't like
I was that well-known.

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So, for nine years, I was
a freelance photographer.

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After that, I went to work

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for the Chicago Tribune,
based in D.C.

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If somebody had told me
that I would end up working

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for the most iconic Republican
president of our generation

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and then the most iconic
Democrat president

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of our generation,

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I would've said they were crazy.

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What are those words?

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-Yes, we can!
-Yes, we can!

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Thank you, Illinois! I love you!

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Thank you!

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Thank you, Illinois.

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-In 2004...
-Thank you, guys.

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00:23:02,381 --> 00:23:05,427
...Barack Obama was elected
to the Senate.

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00:23:05,471 --> 00:23:09,866
I didn't see his 2004 speech
at the convention

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because I was traveling
with Kerry.

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The hope of a skinny kid
with a funny name

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who believes that America
has a place for him, too.

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00:23:19,180 --> 00:23:21,225
I remember the editors
in Chicago said to me,

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"Make sure you get
a picture of Obama."

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And I was like...
I didn't even know

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00:23:24,185 --> 00:23:26,056
what the guy looked like,
you know?

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You're on the front
page of every paper this week.

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-You're all over television.
-Right.

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Everyone's calling you
the future, the savior

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-of the Democratic Party.
-Well...

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-So, are you?
-You know, I rank

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99th out of 100 in seniority,

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00:23:37,981 --> 00:23:40,157
uh, so I-I'm gonna be
sharpening pencils

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and-and scrubbing the floors,
I think,

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-for the first couple of years.
-I doubt that.

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00:23:43,944 --> 00:23:45,467
Jeff Zeleny,

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who was a correspondent
for the Tribune,

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he came up to me one day,
and he said,

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"Hey, I'm thinking of pitching
a story to the editors,

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00:23:53,432 --> 00:23:57,436
uh, following Obama's
first year in the Senate."

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00:24:01,527 --> 00:24:03,224
I love this picture because,

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00:24:03,267 --> 00:24:05,879
you know, he's got
half a sandwich in his mouth,

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00:24:05,922 --> 00:24:08,925
and then Sasha's eyeing
the other half.

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00:24:08,969 --> 00:24:11,362
This was the day I met him.

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The presence of my camera
didn't bother him at all,

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00:24:14,104 --> 00:24:16,150
you know,
which is not always the case,

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especially with politicians.

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DIRECTOR/PRODUCER: Did that say
anything about him to you?

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Um, you know,
I found a good subject.

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00:24:31,252 --> 00:24:35,604
This was the first day
that he was in Washington

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as the newly elected senator.

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00:24:38,477 --> 00:24:41,305
And Malia was six.

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00:24:41,349 --> 00:24:44,395
Senator Obama spent the day
with his family

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and showing them around
and helping them understand

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what it was like.

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And Sasha was three.

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I mean, I think he thought

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I was a competent photographer.

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00:24:56,625 --> 00:24:59,062
I continued
to further that trust

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as the year went by.

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00:25:03,023 --> 00:25:04,677
Why, in the age of, uh, YouTube

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00:25:04,720 --> 00:25:07,506
and so much Internet video,
do photographs

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00:25:07,549 --> 00:25:09,986
still have
a very powerful impact

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00:25:10,030 --> 00:25:12,249
in terms of covering politics?

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00:25:12,293 --> 00:25:15,165
You know, I-I-I like
the still photograph.

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00:25:15,209 --> 00:25:17,124
It stops time.

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00:25:17,167 --> 00:25:19,169
You can remember
a still photograph.

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00:25:19,213 --> 00:25:23,260
A-A lot of photojournalists now
are evolving into video,

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00:25:23,304 --> 00:25:25,175
but I still think
the still photograph,

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00:25:25,219 --> 00:25:27,264
for me, says a lot more.

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00:25:28,309 --> 00:25:29,963
I wasn't with him every day,

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00:25:30,006 --> 00:25:32,356
but I got to know him
pretty well professionally.

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00:25:32,400 --> 00:25:35,185
It-it was very clear
that he was different

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00:25:35,229 --> 00:25:37,144
from most politicians.

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00:25:37,187 --> 00:25:39,102
I hadn't really seen somebody,

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00:25:39,146 --> 00:25:44,064
especially a freshman senator,
with this kind of presence.

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00:25:44,107 --> 00:25:46,457
He had us call him Barack.

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00:25:46,501 --> 00:25:48,459
He was casual.

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00:25:48,503 --> 00:25:50,549
He would e-mail you
in the middle of the night.

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00:25:51,375 --> 00:25:53,508
Generationally,
he had more in common

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00:25:53,552 --> 00:25:55,466
with the people who worked
for him in their 20s

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00:25:55,510 --> 00:26:00,080
than he did with probably the
other senators in Washington.

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00:26:00,123 --> 00:26:01,603
This would have been 2005.

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00:26:01,647 --> 00:26:05,476
I went to Russia and Ukraine
and Azerbaijan with him.

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00:26:05,520 --> 00:26:07,478
We're in the middle
of Red Square,

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00:26:07,522 --> 00:26:10,220
and not a single person
recognizes him.

422
00:26:11,352 --> 00:26:14,355
He was just a... a regular guy.

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00:26:17,271 --> 00:26:22,145
And then I went to Africa
with him in 2006.

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00:26:22,189 --> 00:26:25,453
In Robben Island,
we went to Mandela's cell.

425
00:26:25,496 --> 00:26:28,195
-Now, the advantage of
this cell... -He had some sun.

426
00:26:28,238 --> 00:26:29,631
-Not only that.
-Yeah.

427
00:26:29,675 --> 00:26:31,372
You got the view of the outside.

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00:26:31,415 --> 00:26:33,679
On a clear day,
you could see Cape Town.

429
00:26:38,684 --> 00:26:40,381
When we went to Kenya,

430
00:26:40,424 --> 00:26:43,340
he had this meeting
with some NGOs.

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00:26:43,384 --> 00:26:46,387
And word got out
that he was in there.

432
00:26:46,430 --> 00:26:50,434
And when he emerged
from this meeting,

433
00:26:50,478 --> 00:26:53,350
there were, like,
thousands of people

434
00:26:53,394 --> 00:26:56,049
waiting to hear him say
a few words.

435
00:26:58,660 --> 00:27:02,316
When we went to Nairobi
and he gave a big speech,

436
00:27:02,359 --> 00:27:04,710
I got this picture
of this guy writing down,

437
00:27:04,753 --> 00:27:08,496
like, the bullet points
of what he was talking about.

438
00:27:15,459 --> 00:27:17,636
-Hey!

439
00:27:17,679 --> 00:27:19,681
Hey.
It's good to see all of you.

440
00:27:19,725 --> 00:27:22,510
The reception
at his grandmother's village

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00:27:22,553 --> 00:27:25,078
was, like, chaotic.

442
00:27:29,125 --> 00:27:30,561
Anytime, I think,

443
00:27:30,605 --> 00:27:32,259
a child comes back
to his parent's grave,

444
00:27:32,302 --> 00:27:34,653
it makes you reflect on,
uh, your own life

445
00:27:34,696 --> 00:27:36,742
and-and mortality, and...

446
00:27:36,785 --> 00:27:41,224
uh, it makes you think
about the next generation.

447
00:27:41,268 --> 00:27:45,881
My wife and I are gonna
get tested for HIV/AIDS.

448
00:27:45,925 --> 00:27:48,231
So, I just want everybody
to remember

449
00:27:48,275 --> 00:27:51,670
that if a U.S. senator
can get tested

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00:27:51,713 --> 00:27:53,584
and his wife can get tested,

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00:27:53,628 --> 00:27:55,586
then everybody in this crowd
can get tested.

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00:27:56,849 --> 00:27:58,720
Because you need
to know your status.

453
00:27:58,764 --> 00:28:02,681
Seeing the overwhelming
response that he got in Africa,

454
00:28:02,724 --> 00:28:04,726
I remember coming back
from that trip

455
00:28:04,770 --> 00:28:08,512
saying that, y-you know,
I'll bet he runs for president.

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00:28:11,777 --> 00:28:13,343
I mean, just the way

457
00:28:13,387 --> 00:28:15,258
people were hanging on
to his every word,

458
00:28:15,302 --> 00:28:18,435
you could just see
in people's faces

459
00:28:18,479 --> 00:28:21,134
that this guy was
something special to them.

460
00:28:22,875 --> 00:28:25,138
Obviously, he was
very intelligent.

461
00:28:25,181 --> 00:28:27,270
But I think he also had
the right temperament

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00:28:27,314 --> 00:28:29,751
to become president.

463
00:28:29,795 --> 00:28:33,755
To me, this picture
really tells a story

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00:28:33,799 --> 00:28:38,760
about a young U.S. senator
about to walk out,

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00:28:38,804 --> 00:28:41,458
announce that he's running
for president,

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00:28:41,502 --> 00:28:45,636
knowing that his life
will never be the same.

467
00:28:45,680 --> 00:28:47,769
And I think you can
see that in his face.

468
00:28:47,813 --> 00:28:50,772
You can see the anxiety
in Michelle as she's trying

469
00:28:50,816 --> 00:28:54,210
to brush off some lint
from the back of his jacket.

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00:28:54,254 --> 00:28:56,778
I knew the gravity
of the moment,

471
00:28:56,822 --> 00:28:58,649
and I knew he had a shot.

472
00:28:58,693 --> 00:29:03,654
I knew that once people got
to see him and hear from him

473
00:29:03,698 --> 00:29:05,656
that he had a shot.

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00:29:05,700 --> 00:29:09,878
He had the kind of qualities
within him

475
00:29:09,922 --> 00:29:13,447
where people...
people would relate to him.

476
00:29:13,490 --> 00:29:16,624
-I stand before you today
to announce... -

477
00:29:16,667 --> 00:29:22,717
my candidacy for president of
the United States of America.

478
00:29:24,719 --> 00:29:29,724
People forget that
Hillary was so far ahead,

479
00:29:29,768 --> 00:29:32,901
had so many endorsements,

480
00:29:32,945 --> 00:29:35,817
that people thought
he was a total long shot.

481
00:29:35,861 --> 00:29:38,907
Does Obama face
a big uphill battle

482
00:29:38,951 --> 00:29:40,996
despite all the media attention
he's getting?

483
00:29:41,040 --> 00:29:42,911
Uh, he will
have to deal with the issue

484
00:29:42,955 --> 00:29:44,826
of only two years
in the U.S. Senate.

485
00:29:44,870 --> 00:29:46,480
The media was ready to

486
00:29:46,523 --> 00:29:48,699
kind of write us off
or put us in the barrel.

487
00:29:48,743 --> 00:29:51,485
It was like, no, there is
this broader force out there

488
00:29:51,528 --> 00:29:53,617
that's not gonna
let that happen.

489
00:29:55,968 --> 00:29:59,536
American historywon't be the same again.

490
00:29:59,580 --> 00:30:02,539
Americans elected a young man
with a young family,

491
00:30:02,583 --> 00:30:04,890
an African American--
the first ever.

492
00:30:08,589 --> 00:30:11,374
It's been a long time coming,

493
00:30:11,418 --> 00:30:14,856
but tonight, because of
what we did on this day,

494
00:30:14,900 --> 00:30:19,382
in this election,
at this defining moment,

495
00:30:19,426 --> 00:30:21,950
-change has come to America.

496
00:30:26,302 --> 00:30:29,871
Gibbs called me on January 5

497
00:30:29,915 --> 00:30:31,481
and offered me the job.

498
00:30:31,525 --> 00:30:33,875
And I just said to Gibbs,
I said, "Look,"

499
00:30:33,919 --> 00:30:35,703
I said, "Here's the thing is,
if I do this,

500
00:30:35,746 --> 00:30:38,010
I have to have access
to everything."

501
00:30:38,053 --> 00:30:40,534
And he just said to me,
"The president-elect gets it.

502
00:30:40,577 --> 00:30:42,275
There's no worries there."

503
00:30:42,318 --> 00:30:44,538
And I said, "Okay,
I'll-I'll be there tomorrow."

504
00:30:45,800 --> 00:30:49,064
Two days later,
I met up with Obama.

505
00:30:49,108 --> 00:30:51,893
He walked in the room,
and he said, uh,

506
00:30:51,937 --> 00:30:54,591
"We're gonna have some fun."

507
00:31:05,472 --> 00:31:08,301
I think there was an enormous
amount of respect overseas

508
00:31:08,344 --> 00:31:10,085
when he was elected.

509
00:31:10,129 --> 00:31:12,348
I think people were just excited

510
00:31:12,392 --> 00:31:15,308
that our country had finally
put prejudice aside

511
00:31:15,351 --> 00:31:18,659
and elected
an African American president.

512
00:31:18,702 --> 00:31:22,054
And really a different kind
of politician

513
00:31:22,097 --> 00:31:23,751
that resonated around the world.

514
00:31:30,497 --> 00:31:33,674
Pete was with the president
all the time.

515
00:31:33,717 --> 00:31:35,676
I mean, he'd start
his day around 9:00.

516
00:31:35,719 --> 00:31:38,374
I'd get his schedule.

517
00:31:38,418 --> 00:31:40,028
But I came to learn
that the schedule

518
00:31:40,072 --> 00:31:42,857
was really just
the starting point.

519
00:31:45,773 --> 00:31:47,688
All right, let's go.

520
00:31:47,731 --> 00:31:51,474
I covered all
the behind-the-scenes meetings,

521
00:31:51,518 --> 00:31:53,781
all the Situation Room meetings.

522
00:31:53,824 --> 00:31:56,958
I mean, I-I can't take ownershipof this analogy,

523
00:31:57,002 --> 00:32:00,353
but imagine trying to take
a sip of water

524
00:32:00,396 --> 00:32:03,530
from a firehose
that never shuts off.

525
00:32:13,148 --> 00:32:16,151
It was nonstop every day, 24-7,

526
00:32:16,195 --> 00:32:19,111
always on call, always ready.

527
00:32:19,154 --> 00:32:21,983
That was the challenge for me,
for my job for eight years.

528
00:32:22,027 --> 00:32:24,943
Pete had walking pneumonia
one time,

529
00:32:24,986 --> 00:32:27,032
and he still came to work.

530
00:32:27,075 --> 00:32:28,642
I mean, if you really
want to document

531
00:32:28,685 --> 00:32:29,904
the presidency for history,

532
00:32:29,948 --> 00:32:32,733
you got to be there
all the time,

533
00:32:32,776 --> 00:32:34,517
because you can't predict
when images are gonna happen.

534
00:32:34,561 --> 00:32:37,172
Pete really wanted to be

535
00:32:37,216 --> 00:32:39,131
the guy who disappears.

536
00:32:39,174 --> 00:32:42,177
And that's the gift when you're
a White House photographer

537
00:32:42,221 --> 00:32:44,963
is that the president doesn't
even know you're in the room.

538
00:32:46,747 --> 00:32:48,705
Occasionally,
the cabinet would be gathered

539
00:32:48,749 --> 00:32:51,447
to present some really tough
decisions to the president.

540
00:32:51,491 --> 00:32:53,623
You know,
there'd be chatter, chatter,

541
00:32:53,667 --> 00:32:56,496
people commiserating,
and the first sign

542
00:32:56,539 --> 00:33:01,718
that the president was imminent
was when Pete walked in.

543
00:33:01,762 --> 00:33:03,546
Everything would freeze.

544
00:33:03,590 --> 00:33:05,461
So, I don't know
what it felt like for him

545
00:33:05,505 --> 00:33:07,724
for eight years to have
that chilling effect on...

546
00:33:07,768 --> 00:33:09,204
on every room.

547
00:33:12,468 --> 00:33:17,560
Why should historians
pay attention to what you do?

548
00:33:17,604 --> 00:33:20,563
Well, I think, for me,
the-the job

549
00:33:20,607 --> 00:33:22,652
of the Chief Official
White House Photographer

550
00:33:22,696 --> 00:33:24,480
is important for history.

551
00:33:24,524 --> 00:33:28,093
And-and that's the one thing
that I am-am concerned about

552
00:33:28,136 --> 00:33:30,573
with, you know,
what's-what's happening

553
00:33:30,617 --> 00:33:32,053
with the current administration,

554
00:33:32,097 --> 00:33:35,665
that the access
is not the same as...

555
00:33:35,709 --> 00:33:39,626
as, uh... as-as I had
for-for President Obama.

556
00:33:39,669 --> 00:33:43,108
And I think history
will suffer as a result.

557
00:33:45,849 --> 00:33:48,591
President Obama
puts his administration

558
00:33:48,635 --> 00:33:50,767
front and center
on yet another major aspect

559
00:33:50,811 --> 00:33:53,161
of the country's troubled
economic front:

560
00:33:53,205 --> 00:33:55,642
restructuring
the U.S. auto industry.

561
00:33:57,731 --> 00:34:00,081
Early in 2009,
we were in the midst

562
00:34:00,125 --> 00:34:02,475
of this big financial crisis.

563
00:34:02,518 --> 00:34:05,565
I think this picture
helped show who's in the room,

564
00:34:05,608 --> 00:34:07,784
the mood,
the emotion of the moment,

565
00:34:07,828 --> 00:34:09,873
which was-- he was about to call

566
00:34:09,917 --> 00:34:13,747
the CEOs of
two automobile companies

567
00:34:13,790 --> 00:34:15,792
to tell them
the federal government

568
00:34:15,836 --> 00:34:17,838
was gonna take over the company.

569
00:34:17,881 --> 00:34:20,971
As you recall, it was
very controversial at the time.

570
00:34:21,798 --> 00:34:25,628
And I was thinking,
"Who is this man?"

571
00:34:25,672 --> 00:34:27,978
How does he deal with crisis?

572
00:34:28,022 --> 00:34:31,199
And I think some words
that were crossing my mind were

573
00:34:31,243 --> 00:34:36,030
"leadership," "character"
and "empathy."

574
00:34:38,076 --> 00:34:41,209
The more I've studied
leaders in crisis times,

575
00:34:41,253 --> 00:34:44,125
whether it's Lincoln
or FDR or Teddy Roosevelt

576
00:34:44,169 --> 00:34:46,736
or LBJ during
the civil rights struggle,

577
00:34:46,780 --> 00:34:48,869
they had almost, like,
a family resemblance

578
00:34:48,912 --> 00:34:52,655
of leadership traits,
the first one being humility,

579
00:34:52,699 --> 00:34:55,136
the ability to be able
to acknowledge error

580
00:34:55,180 --> 00:34:57,573
and learn from your mistakes.

581
00:34:57,617 --> 00:35:00,098
I would go from there,
maybe, to empathy

582
00:35:00,141 --> 00:35:02,665
as an absolutely critical
human quality--

583
00:35:02,709 --> 00:35:05,277
the ability to understand
other people's points of view

584
00:35:05,320 --> 00:35:07,017
and to feel
a sense of connection

585
00:35:07,061 --> 00:35:08,628
to those other people.

586
00:35:08,671 --> 00:35:10,586
All the leaders
that I've studied

587
00:35:10,630 --> 00:35:14,024
were able to communicate
in a way to the people

588
00:35:14,068 --> 00:35:17,289
so that they felt a sense of
trust in what they were saying.

589
00:35:17,332 --> 00:35:20,074
They were inspired to act
because of them.

590
00:35:20,118 --> 00:35:22,250
And then beyond communication

591
00:35:22,294 --> 00:35:24,731
is the ability
to control emotions

592
00:35:24,774 --> 00:35:27,734
and to remain cool
during difficult times.

593
00:35:27,777 --> 00:35:29,997
And then at the very end,
in some ways,

594
00:35:30,040 --> 00:35:31,607
you have to have
the self-confidence

595
00:35:31,651 --> 00:35:33,348
to create a team
of people around you

596
00:35:33,392 --> 00:35:35,002
who can criticize you,

597
00:35:35,045 --> 00:35:36,786
who can question
your assumptions,

598
00:35:36,830 --> 00:35:38,179
who can argue with you.

599
00:35:38,223 --> 00:35:39,876
And then to accept
that it's gonna come

600
00:35:39,920 --> 00:35:41,269
from the country at large

601
00:35:41,313 --> 00:35:43,315
is such an important quality
in a leader.

602
00:35:49,364 --> 00:35:52,324
Looking at President Obama,
he came into office

603
00:35:52,367 --> 00:35:55,718
with a desire to wind down
America's wars overseas

604
00:35:55,762 --> 00:35:57,720
and step up the focus at home.

605
00:35:57,764 --> 00:36:00,201
But events had a way
of intervening,

606
00:36:00,245 --> 00:36:01,855
especially in the Middle East.

607
00:36:01,898 --> 00:36:03,944
I want to speak to you tonight

608
00:36:03,987 --> 00:36:06,164
about our effort in Afghanistan.

609
00:36:07,252 --> 00:36:10,080
We did not ask for this fight.

610
00:36:10,124 --> 00:36:14,172
But while we've achieved
hard-earned milestones in Iraq,

611
00:36:14,215 --> 00:36:17,827
the situation in Afghanistan
has deteriorated.

612
00:36:17,871 --> 00:36:20,221
And as commander in chief,
I have determined

613
00:36:20,265 --> 00:36:23,224
that it is in
our vital national interest

614
00:36:23,268 --> 00:36:27,097
to send an additional 30,000
U.S. troops to Afghanistan.

615
00:36:27,141 --> 00:36:29,926
President Obama again
and again would come back to,

616
00:36:29,970 --> 00:36:33,278
"Okay, if we do
what you're proposing,

617
00:36:33,321 --> 00:36:35,932
how is it likely to play out?"

618
00:36:35,976 --> 00:36:39,980
He welcomed dissent
and debate and discussion.

619
00:36:40,023 --> 00:36:44,680
His belief was that he would
make the best decisions

620
00:36:44,724 --> 00:36:47,683
if he had been exposed to

621
00:36:47,727 --> 00:36:50,860
the greatest array
of counterarguments,

622
00:36:50,904 --> 00:36:52,688
alternative viewpoints.

623
00:36:52,732 --> 00:36:55,909
Let's say a really difficult
backdrop like Syria.

624
00:36:55,952 --> 00:36:58,259
We had tensions over that.

625
00:36:58,303 --> 00:37:01,262
We have nothing
but lousy options

626
00:37:01,306 --> 00:37:03,656
confronting the president.

627
00:37:03,699 --> 00:37:07,181
But the person who has to live
with the consequences

628
00:37:07,225 --> 00:37:10,010
and to know
that they own the outcome,

629
00:37:10,053 --> 00:37:13,100
that's the president
and the president alone.

630
00:37:15,058 --> 00:37:17,322
President Obama said, actually,

631
00:37:17,365 --> 00:37:20,281
that he viewed the presidency
as a relay race.

632
00:37:20,325 --> 00:37:23,284
You're given certain problems
when you come in.

633
00:37:23,328 --> 00:37:25,155
You work on those problems.

634
00:37:25,199 --> 00:37:27,375
Some of those things will not
be solved during your time.

635
00:37:27,419 --> 00:37:30,117
Maybe some steps have been
taken to get that solved.

636
00:37:30,160 --> 00:37:32,250
Maybe we've gone backwards
or forwards.

637
00:37:32,293 --> 00:37:33,729
Wars are gonna be there

638
00:37:33,773 --> 00:37:35,035
that maybe shouldn't
have been fought

639
00:37:35,078 --> 00:37:37,037
or-or you wish
hadn't been fought.

640
00:37:37,080 --> 00:37:39,300
Wars are gonna be there
that are left unfinished.

641
00:37:39,344 --> 00:37:42,172
But it's really
that continuing march.

642
00:37:44,262 --> 00:37:46,307
For me,

643
00:37:46,351 --> 00:37:48,918
it is constantly important
to remind myself

644
00:37:48,962 --> 00:37:52,357
why I got into this business
in the first place.

645
00:37:52,400 --> 00:37:54,184
Especially when it's hard.

646
00:37:54,228 --> 00:37:57,971
You look at an issue
right now like health care.

647
00:37:58,014 --> 00:38:01,322
So many of us campaigned
on the idea

648
00:38:01,366 --> 00:38:04,934
that we were gonna change
this health care system.

649
00:38:04,978 --> 00:38:09,069
Well, here we are
with a chance to change it.

650
00:38:10,418 --> 00:38:12,202
This is
an early health care speech

651
00:38:12,246 --> 00:38:15,118
he was working on
with Jon Favreau.

652
00:38:15,162 --> 00:38:17,251
-Every page looked like this.

653
00:38:17,295 --> 00:38:20,123
So, I think it really shows you
how involved he was

654
00:38:20,167 --> 00:38:23,910
in the words that were
coming out of his mouth.

655
00:38:23,953 --> 00:38:25,868
Don't you wish we had that now?

656
00:38:25,912 --> 00:38:27,870
-Um...

657
00:38:27,914 --> 00:38:29,829
but I think this picture
also tells you something

658
00:38:29,872 --> 00:38:32,092
about how he works
with other people.

659
00:38:32,135 --> 00:38:34,964
Because instead of just
handing Jon

660
00:38:35,008 --> 00:38:36,749
the marked-up draft
the next morning

661
00:38:36,792 --> 00:38:39,186
when he came to the Oval Office,he called Jon in,

662
00:38:39,229 --> 00:38:41,710
and they sat on the sofa
for an hour and a half

663
00:38:41,754 --> 00:38:45,845
and went over every change
that he had made.

664
00:38:45,888 --> 00:38:48,761
I know how bitter
and contentious the issue

665
00:38:48,804 --> 00:38:51,938
of health insurance reform
has become.

666
00:38:53,940 --> 00:38:56,812
This bill is
the greatest threat to freedom

667
00:38:56,856 --> 00:39:00,120
that I have seen in the 19 yearsI've been here in Washington.

668
00:39:00,163 --> 00:39:02,731
We've gotten caught up
in the political game

669
00:39:02,775 --> 00:39:04,820
in a way that's
just not healthy.

670
00:39:06,822 --> 00:39:11,479
This is Nancy-Ann DeParle,who was as responsible as anyone

671
00:39:11,523 --> 00:39:13,829
for the Affordable Care Act.

672
00:39:13,873 --> 00:39:17,093
And Nancy-Ann had
two young boys,

673
00:39:17,137 --> 00:39:19,835
and they never saw their mom
for, like, two years.

674
00:39:19,879 --> 00:39:22,011
Like, she would leave the house
early in the morning,

675
00:39:22,055 --> 00:39:24,405
and the boys
hadn't even woken up yet.

676
00:39:24,449 --> 00:39:27,887
And by the time she got home,
they were often already asleep.

677
00:39:27,930 --> 00:39:29,454
And that's the kind of sacrifice

678
00:39:29,497 --> 00:39:32,195
that people
at the White House made.

679
00:39:32,239 --> 00:39:34,023
President Obama
was aware of this.

680
00:39:34,067 --> 00:39:36,461
It-it was... wasn't anything
that was ever said,

681
00:39:36,504 --> 00:39:40,378
but I started noticing it--
where, whenever he could,

682
00:39:40,421 --> 00:39:43,772
he would make a point to
make sure the boys were invited

683
00:39:43,816 --> 00:39:46,384
when the NBA basketball players

684
00:39:46,427 --> 00:39:49,299
came to the White House
or events like that.

685
00:39:49,343 --> 00:39:51,040
This is Nicky.

686
00:39:51,084 --> 00:39:53,391
He invited him
into the Oval Office,

687
00:39:53,434 --> 00:39:55,784
uh, to share
a PowerBar with him.

688
00:39:59,309 --> 00:40:01,050
Um...

689
00:40:05,577 --> 00:40:08,449
Nicky...

690
00:40:08,493 --> 00:40:11,844
came to one of my book signings.

691
00:40:11,887 --> 00:40:15,804
He's now a sophomore at Duke.

692
00:40:15,848 --> 00:40:18,067
And, uh, told me

693
00:40:18,111 --> 00:40:20,113
how much this picture
meant to him.

694
00:40:21,854 --> 00:40:23,551
And he realizes now

695
00:40:23,595 --> 00:40:25,945
the good work
that his mom was doing.

696
00:40:28,426 --> 00:40:30,384
There was still
some lobbying to be done.

697
00:40:30,428 --> 00:40:32,778
Lots of phone calls is in the...

698
00:40:32,821 --> 00:40:34,257
in-in the limo
with Phil Schiliro,

699
00:40:34,301 --> 00:40:36,042
his legislative director.

700
00:40:36,085 --> 00:40:37,957
And I think
this was the phone call

701
00:40:38,000 --> 00:40:41,047
where he realized that
they probably had enough votes.

702
00:40:41,090 --> 00:40:44,267
And he took his lucky charms
out of his pocket.

703
00:40:44,311 --> 00:40:47,183
I saw that he took his
lucky charms out that morning;

704
00:40:47,227 --> 00:40:50,578
I was like,
"Okay, this is a good sign."

705
00:40:52,101 --> 00:40:53,581
Let's get this done.

706
00:40:57,455 --> 00:41:00,022
The bill is passed.

707
00:41:29,878 --> 00:41:33,316
And he felt on this day
that he got something done

708
00:41:33,360 --> 00:41:35,405
that bettered people's lives.

709
00:41:39,366 --> 00:41:41,150
--Oh, got to switch cameras here.

710
00:41:41,194 --> 00:41:43,283
-Oh.

711
00:41:43,326 --> 00:41:46,373
-Oh, sorry about that, sir.
-No problem.

712
00:41:46,416 --> 00:41:47,983
-Are we all right?
-Yep.

713
00:41:48,027 --> 00:41:49,507
Just got to switch, uh...

714
00:41:49,550 --> 00:41:51,160
All right.

715
00:41:51,204 --> 00:41:53,032
He-he caught me
in an embarrassing moment.

716
00:41:53,075 --> 00:41:55,077
-I saw.
-Where... It's, like, that's...

717
00:41:55,121 --> 00:41:56,992
That never happens to me.

718
00:41:57,036 --> 00:41:58,341
Sorry about that, sir.

719
00:41:58,385 --> 00:41:59,995
Yeah, that was
a little embarrassing.

720
00:42:00,039 --> 00:42:01,867
-Ah, man, I tell you.
-Right in front of, uh,

721
00:42:01,910 --> 00:42:03,651
National Geographic,
and suddenly...

722
00:42:03,695 --> 00:42:05,435
suddenly, the camera broke down.

723
00:42:05,479 --> 00:42:07,350
-Golly.
-I filled the disk.

724
00:42:07,394 --> 00:42:08,917
-He's usually much better than
this, I promise you. -

725
00:42:08,961 --> 00:42:10,571
Remember, Pete,
remember, you got to take

726
00:42:10,615 --> 00:42:12,355
-the lens cap off before...
-No, it wasn't the lens cap.

727
00:42:12,399 --> 00:42:14,183
-The lens cap is important.
-No, no, no, it was the...

728
00:42:14,227 --> 00:42:16,621
I filled the disk. I mean,
the speech was so exciting

729
00:42:16,664 --> 00:42:19,232
-that I filled the disk with...
-It was...

730
00:42:22,322 --> 00:42:24,367
One of the cool things
that my office did

731
00:42:24,411 --> 00:42:26,587
was hang jumbo prints.

732
00:42:26,631 --> 00:42:28,633
It's a tradition
that had started

733
00:42:28,676 --> 00:42:30,504
with the Nixon administration.

734
00:42:30,548 --> 00:42:33,333
So, we would update them
every few weeks.

735
00:42:35,335 --> 00:42:37,032
There's actually only
a few dozen people

736
00:42:37,076 --> 00:42:38,556
that interact with the
president of the United States

737
00:42:38,599 --> 00:42:40,558
on a regular basis.

738
00:42:42,647 --> 00:42:46,520
And yet, there's hundreds
of people working for him.

739
00:42:46,564 --> 00:42:50,916
So, this was a way for them to
see him in a very personal way.

740
00:42:52,178 --> 00:42:55,268
I think it sort of gave them
added purpose.

741
00:42:58,663 --> 00:43:01,013
The first time that
we went to the U.N.,

742
00:43:01,056 --> 00:43:03,232
we had a break one afternoon,

743
00:43:03,276 --> 00:43:06,105
and he and Reggie Love played
basketball for, like, an hour.

744
00:43:06,148 --> 00:43:10,109
Now, Reggie Love was 27
at the time,

745
00:43:10,152 --> 00:43:11,545
was six-six.

746
00:43:11,589 --> 00:43:13,939
He was the captain
of the Duke University

747
00:43:13,982 --> 00:43:16,594
basketball team when they won
a national championship.

748
00:43:16,637 --> 00:43:19,509
Barack Obama was 20 years older,

749
00:43:19,553 --> 00:43:21,599
at least four inches shorter

750
00:43:21,642 --> 00:43:24,036
and didn't start forhis high school basketball team.

751
00:43:25,646 --> 00:43:29,084
But he's, like, the most
competitive guy I've ever met.

752
00:43:29,128 --> 00:43:31,217
At one point,
President Obama goes up,

753
00:43:31,260 --> 00:43:33,088
blocks Reggie's shot.

754
00:43:33,132 --> 00:43:35,047
They finished the game,

755
00:43:35,090 --> 00:43:37,745
and President Obama
makes a beeline towards me.

756
00:43:37,789 --> 00:43:41,619
Comes up to me, and he goes,
"Did you get that block?"

757
00:43:46,624 --> 00:43:48,321
And I'm, like,
scrolling through,

758
00:43:48,364 --> 00:43:51,454
and I come to this picture,
and he goes... he goes,

759
00:43:51,498 --> 00:43:53,543
"That's great.
Make that a jumbo."

760
00:43:56,198 --> 00:43:57,765
He made Reggie sign it,

761
00:43:57,809 --> 00:44:00,681
"Dear Mr. President, nice block.Reggie Love."

762
00:44:04,554 --> 00:44:08,384
Somebody came to me and said,
"We need to get these online."

763
00:44:08,428 --> 00:44:11,649
Pete said,
"The White House wants us

764
00:44:11,692 --> 00:44:14,347
to put pictures out on Flickr,"

765
00:44:14,390 --> 00:44:16,654
which was
a photo streaming platform.

766
00:44:16,697 --> 00:44:19,613
My job was to make
an edit of... from 10,000

767
00:44:19,657 --> 00:44:23,051
down to what would be
about 50 pictures a week.

768
00:44:23,095 --> 00:44:24,574
That was unprecedented.

769
00:44:24,618 --> 00:44:27,142
No previous administration
had ever

770
00:44:27,186 --> 00:44:29,144
put out as many pictures.

771
00:44:29,188 --> 00:44:31,103
And I thought it was
a great way for the public

772
00:44:31,146 --> 00:44:33,671
to see what was happening
behind the scenes.

773
00:44:45,465 --> 00:44:49,730
When you get to be my age
and you look back at, uh,

774
00:44:49,774 --> 00:44:52,298
things that happened
early in your life,

775
00:44:52,341 --> 00:44:55,736
you start sort of connecting
the dots a little bit.

776
00:44:55,780 --> 00:44:59,522
I was trying to remember
with Jane

777
00:44:59,566 --> 00:45:02,743
when we went to Washington.

778
00:45:02,787 --> 00:45:05,746
I think it was in 1965.

779
00:45:05,790 --> 00:45:08,227
But we went and visited
the White House,

780
00:45:08,270 --> 00:45:11,709
and we also got this book

781
00:45:11,752 --> 00:45:14,450
-called The White House.

782
00:45:14,494 --> 00:45:18,541
And I used to look
at this book all the time.

783
00:45:18,585 --> 00:45:20,674
This book was published
shortly before

784
00:45:20,718 --> 00:45:23,068
Kennedy was assassinated.

785
00:45:23,111 --> 00:45:25,592
And Jackie Kennedy
wrote the introduction.

786
00:45:25,635 --> 00:45:27,246
She said that the book
originally

787
00:45:27,289 --> 00:45:30,423
was intended just for children.

788
00:45:32,251 --> 00:45:33,774
I'm gonna get emotional

789
00:45:33,818 --> 00:45:35,341
just-just reading this.

790
00:45:35,384 --> 00:45:37,212
"It-it seems such a shame
that they"--

791
00:45:37,256 --> 00:45:39,388
meaning the kids
that visited the White House--

792
00:45:39,432 --> 00:45:41,564
"should have nothing
to take away with them.

793
00:45:41,608 --> 00:45:44,567
"It was hoped that they would
read more about the presidents

794
00:45:44,611 --> 00:45:47,135
who interested them the most."

795
00:45:47,179 --> 00:45:49,137
You know, I was one of them.

796
00:45:49,181 --> 00:45:52,227
This book,
for each administration,

797
00:45:52,271 --> 00:45:54,577
was-was updated subsequently.

798
00:45:54,621 --> 00:45:59,757
The last version of this,
I have the cover photo

799
00:45:59,800 --> 00:46:01,846
and have several photos

800
00:46:01,889 --> 00:46:04,762
of-of President Obama
inside the book.

801
00:46:04,805 --> 00:46:07,329
-So, you talk about full circle.-

802
00:46:14,423 --> 00:46:17,687
This was when my mom met,

803
00:46:17,731 --> 00:46:19,733
uh, President Obama
for the first time.

804
00:46:19,777 --> 00:46:22,823
And he wrote, "To Lillian.
It was a joy to meet you.

805
00:46:22,867 --> 00:46:26,261
Thanks for doing
such a great job with Pete."

806
00:46:26,305 --> 00:46:28,437
So, this is my grandmother
and grandfather.

807
00:46:28,481 --> 00:46:30,657
They were both born
in the Azores.

808
00:46:30,700 --> 00:46:34,617
They emigrated within
a year or two of each other.

809
00:46:34,661 --> 00:46:36,837
My parents both worked.

810
00:46:36,881 --> 00:46:39,448
My mom was a nurse.

811
00:46:39,492 --> 00:46:42,712
My dad was a boat mechanic.

812
00:46:43,713 --> 00:46:49,502
I had no interest in anything
other than sports.

813
00:46:49,545 --> 00:46:51,460
I didn't get interested
in photography

814
00:46:51,504 --> 00:46:53,419
until I was in college.

815
00:46:53,462 --> 00:46:55,464
If there was such a category,
I would have been

816
00:46:55,508 --> 00:46:57,771
-the most unlikely to succeed.

817
00:46:57,815 --> 00:47:00,643
I think, when he was at BU,

818
00:47:00,687 --> 00:47:02,863
he took a course in photography.

819
00:47:02,907 --> 00:47:04,473
And he came home, and he said,

820
00:47:04,517 --> 00:47:06,649
"Mom, I want to be
a photographer."

821
00:47:06,693 --> 00:47:09,565
I said, "Oh, my God,
four years at BU,

822
00:47:09,609 --> 00:47:11,698
and you're gonna take pictures?"

823
00:47:13,613 --> 00:47:15,702
That's what I thought.
Oh, my God.

824
00:47:16,746 --> 00:47:17,922
To me, it was magic.

825
00:47:17,965 --> 00:47:19,837
Shooting a roll of film,

826
00:47:19,880 --> 00:47:22,578
rolling that film up
onto the reel,

827
00:47:22,622 --> 00:47:26,844
and as you're shaking the tray,
the image starts to appear.

828
00:47:26,887 --> 00:47:30,238
You're in control
from start to finish.

829
00:47:30,282 --> 00:47:33,589
And I was like,
"This is what I want to do."

830
00:47:33,633 --> 00:47:35,765
He really wanted to be
a photographer, you know,

831
00:47:35,809 --> 00:47:38,246
and that's a really
competitive field.

832
00:47:38,290 --> 00:47:40,770
And the day that he left
to go to Kansas

833
00:47:40,814 --> 00:47:42,511
to get his master's degree,

834
00:47:42,555 --> 00:47:43,861
when he was driving
out of the driveway,

835
00:47:43,904 --> 00:47:45,297
I started to cry.

836
00:47:45,340 --> 00:47:46,907
And our dad said,
"Why are you crying?

837
00:47:46,951 --> 00:47:48,561
He's just going away
for a year."

838
00:47:48,604 --> 00:47:50,998
And I said, "No, he's not.
He's never coming back."

839
00:47:51,042 --> 00:47:53,871
I was always trying
to make a good picture

840
00:47:53,914 --> 00:47:56,917
for every assignment,
no matter how bad it was.

841
00:47:56,961 --> 00:48:00,225
You know, if there's a dogthat crosses the street at 1:00,

842
00:48:00,268 --> 00:48:03,445
that has a potential to be
the page-one photo.

843
00:48:03,489 --> 00:48:07,362
You realize your photographs
do have an impact.

844
00:48:07,406 --> 00:48:09,277
I got a call one day from

845
00:48:09,321 --> 00:48:10,931
the director of photography
at the Sun-Times,

846
00:48:10,975 --> 00:48:12,672
and he goes, "We want you
to come interview."

847
00:48:12,715 --> 00:48:14,587
So I flew up to Chicago,

848
00:48:14,630 --> 00:48:16,763
and he hired me,
and, uh, so I went from

849
00:48:16,806 --> 00:48:19,940
a 6,000-circulation
daily newspaper

850
00:48:19,984 --> 00:48:21,768
where I was the only
photographer

851
00:48:21,811 --> 00:48:24,031
to a 600,000-circulation
newspaper

852
00:48:24,075 --> 00:48:27,905
where I was one of 25
photojournalists.

853
00:48:27,948 --> 00:48:30,995
I really think it was helpful
for me to have

854
00:48:31,038 --> 00:48:34,302
the number of experiences
that I had had.

855
00:48:34,346 --> 00:48:37,479
Did some stuff for
National Geographic.

856
00:48:37,523 --> 00:48:40,743
When Lifewas a monthly, I did
some work for them.

857
00:48:40,787 --> 00:48:42,658
Right after 9/11,

858
00:48:42,702 --> 00:48:45,574
a correspondent and I
snuck into Afghanistan

859
00:48:45,618 --> 00:48:49,578
just as the-the war
was getting underway.

860
00:48:49,622 --> 00:48:52,494
And in some ways, it was one
of the more fulfilling things

861
00:48:52,538 --> 00:48:54,409
I've ever done in my career

862
00:48:54,453 --> 00:48:58,065
because my images were appearingin the Tribuneevery day,

863
00:48:58,109 --> 00:49:00,546
and I really felt
that I was doing good work

864
00:49:00,589 --> 00:49:02,678
and people were seeing it.

865
00:49:02,722 --> 00:49:04,767
I don't want peopleto come away with the impression

866
00:49:04,811 --> 00:49:06,987
that I was a war photographer,
'cause I wasn't.

867
00:49:07,031 --> 00:49:09,424
But when there are RPGs
coming at you,

868
00:49:09,468 --> 00:49:12,427
I did not do a really good job,

869
00:49:12,471 --> 00:49:14,995
'cause I was scared shit.
I'll admit it.

870
00:49:15,039 --> 00:49:16,910
The realization was,
"Okay, this is...

871
00:49:16,954 --> 00:49:18,520
I'm not good at this."

872
00:49:26,702 --> 00:49:29,749
We thank you again
for coming here tonight.

873
00:49:29,792 --> 00:49:32,708
Lynsey was actually kidnapped
twice in her career.

874
00:49:32,752 --> 00:49:34,797
We know that Brian swims
with sharks.

875
00:49:34,841 --> 00:49:36,930
So, Pete, was there ever a time

876
00:49:36,974 --> 00:49:39,585
-where you really felt...

877
00:49:39,628 --> 00:49:42,980
...really felt fearful
in the White House

878
00:49:43,023 --> 00:49:45,678
beyond January 20, 2017?

879
00:49:50,596 --> 00:49:51,858
This White House.

880
00:49:51,901 --> 00:49:54,600
Yeah, this White House.

881
00:49:56,384 --> 00:49:58,821
-No, I never felt fearful.

882
00:49:58,865 --> 00:50:00,823
I didn't have bullets
flying over my head,

883
00:50:00,867 --> 00:50:03,478
and I didn't have sharks coming
at me from all directions,

884
00:50:03,522 --> 00:50:06,046
so I had it easy
compared to these two.

885
00:50:06,090 --> 00:50:08,831
The one thing that--
uh, we were talking earlier--

886
00:50:08,875 --> 00:50:11,834
you have to have intuition

887
00:50:11,878 --> 00:50:16,491
in terms of when it's time
to-to give the man some space.

888
00:50:16,535 --> 00:50:19,494
So it's more of a just in...
intuitive sense

889
00:50:19,538 --> 00:50:22,454
of when it's time
to sort of slowly back away.

890
00:50:24,543 --> 00:50:26,719
Every three months,
we would go to Walter Reed,

891
00:50:26,762 --> 00:50:29,504
and he would visit
Wounded Warriors.

892
00:50:29,548 --> 00:50:33,421
I think it affected him
emotionally.

893
00:50:33,465 --> 00:50:37,077
One time, he went,
and we saw Cory Remsburg.

894
00:50:37,121 --> 00:50:39,036
He had gotten injured by an IED.

895
00:50:39,079 --> 00:50:41,690
The guy that he was
on patrol with in Afghanistan

896
00:50:41,734 --> 00:50:43,431
was killed instantly.

897
00:50:43,475 --> 00:50:45,477
Cory was thrown into a ravine.

898
00:50:45,520 --> 00:50:46,826
He was underwater.

899
00:50:46,869 --> 00:50:49,437
Somehow he survived,
not drowning.

900
00:50:49,481 --> 00:50:51,048
He spent months in a coma.

901
00:50:51,091 --> 00:50:52,745
He lost half his eyesight

902
00:50:52,788 --> 00:50:55,052
and the ability to control
half his body.

903
00:50:55,095 --> 00:50:58,881
He had to relearn
how to walk, talk and eat.

904
00:50:58,925 --> 00:51:01,536
But here's the thing
that really took me aback.

905
00:51:01,580 --> 00:51:03,886
President Obama had met Cory

906
00:51:03,930 --> 00:51:07,542
in, uh, Normandy
the previous June,

907
00:51:07,586 --> 00:51:10,632
and I had taken a picture
of that encounter.

908
00:51:12,678 --> 00:51:16,725
And the picture, we had sent
a copy to the family,

909
00:51:16,769 --> 00:51:19,119
and it was taped
on the hospital wall.

910
00:51:19,163 --> 00:51:21,687
And I was looking
at that picture

911
00:51:21,730 --> 00:51:24,777
and looking at Cory
and saying to myself,

912
00:51:24,820 --> 00:51:27,736
"This is the real cost of war."

913
00:51:27,780 --> 00:51:30,957
Right? You some... you don't
usually see it that starkly.

914
00:51:34,743 --> 00:51:37,137
Cory's made remarkable progress.

915
00:51:37,181 --> 00:51:41,185
Three years later, he visited
with President Obama again

916
00:51:41,228 --> 00:51:43,665
and was starting to walk
with a walker.

917
00:51:43,709 --> 00:51:47,800
In January of 2014,
was the guest of honor

918
00:51:47,843 --> 00:51:49,976
at the
State of the Union address

919
00:51:50,019 --> 00:51:53,110
and sat next to Michelle Obama.

920
00:51:53,153 --> 00:51:55,677
And then towards the end
of the administration,

921
00:51:55,721 --> 00:52:01,727
President Obama visited him
in Arizona at his new house.

922
00:52:07,820 --> 00:52:09,865
One of the most important parts

923
00:52:09,909 --> 00:52:13,173
of the president's day was when

924
00:52:13,217 --> 00:52:16,959
they would go out
to cities all over the U.S.

925
00:52:17,003 --> 00:52:18,787
How long did it last?

926
00:52:18,831 --> 00:52:20,876
-Seemed like forever.
-It-it must have.

927
00:52:20,920 --> 00:52:22,139
Thank God you guys
are all right.

928
00:52:22,182 --> 00:52:23,618
-Yes, sir.
-All right? And, uh...

929
00:52:37,980 --> 00:52:40,635
When you're
face-to-face with people...

930
00:52:46,902 --> 00:52:49,992
...those images are burned
into your brain.

931
00:52:56,869 --> 00:52:59,001
And you carry that with you.

932
00:52:59,045 --> 00:53:01,178
Pete would always tell me
the stories

933
00:53:01,221 --> 00:53:03,223
of what happened
on the road that day.

934
00:53:03,267 --> 00:53:07,009
And when you go back,
you are constantly reminded

935
00:53:07,053 --> 00:53:08,968
of why you're working so hard.

936
00:53:14,800 --> 00:53:16,845
You touched me so much
with your clarity.

937
00:53:40,129 --> 00:53:43,785
Morning meeting was
at 9:30 in the Oval Office,

938
00:53:43,829 --> 00:53:45,744
and every day, it was
the same kind of meeting.

939
00:53:45,787 --> 00:53:48,790
People sitting in the
same chairs, in the same spots.

940
00:53:48,834 --> 00:53:50,836
And I would think,
"Oh, my God, I can't look

941
00:53:50,879 --> 00:53:53,099
at another picture
from this meeting."

942
00:53:53,142 --> 00:53:56,276
But you have to look through
frame-by-frame just in case.

943
00:53:56,320 --> 00:53:59,148
And one night, I saw a scene,

944
00:53:59,192 --> 00:54:01,586
and I started to cry.

945
00:54:01,629 --> 00:54:04,589
And I get chills thinking
about it because it was some...

946
00:54:04,632 --> 00:54:06,286
I don't know
what the meeting was,

947
00:54:06,330 --> 00:54:09,158
but I knew from looking
at the president's face

948
00:54:09,202 --> 00:54:12,161
the intensity of the decision
that he was making.

949
00:54:12,205 --> 00:54:15,817
And I was incredibly moved

950
00:54:15,861 --> 00:54:18,298
because I knew
the responsibility

951
00:54:18,342 --> 00:54:20,300
and the weight of that job,

952
00:54:20,344 --> 00:54:23,912
and it made me understand
how important it is

953
00:54:23,956 --> 00:54:27,307
to have the right person
in that chair

954
00:54:27,351 --> 00:54:28,961
making those decisions.

955
00:54:29,004 --> 00:54:34,880
When we vote, we're voting
for a decision maker

956
00:54:34,923 --> 00:54:38,275
who is listening
to everyone around him

957
00:54:38,318 --> 00:54:40,407
and is then
making that decision.

958
00:54:40,451 --> 00:54:42,061
And people say,

959
00:54:42,104 --> 00:54:43,758
"It doesn't matter
who's in the White House.

960
00:54:43,802 --> 00:54:45,238
It doesn't matter.
It doesn't..."

961
00:54:45,282 --> 00:54:47,893
It totally matters
who's in the White House.

962
00:54:49,895 --> 00:54:52,680
Breaking news that
the world's most wanted man

963
00:54:52,724 --> 00:54:54,116
has been killed in a mission

964
00:54:54,160 --> 00:54:56,336
led by United States
Special Forces.

965
00:54:56,380 --> 00:54:58,947
President Trump
laying out what he watched

966
00:54:58,991 --> 00:55:01,385
as he started to view
this operation

967
00:55:01,428 --> 00:55:03,212
in the Situation Room.

968
00:55:03,256 --> 00:55:05,084
When you look
at this picture...

969
00:55:06,128 --> 00:55:08,957
...definitely looks like
he's looking at the camera.

970
00:55:09,001 --> 00:55:10,655
Don't you think?

971
00:55:10,698 --> 00:55:12,961
And I've been in this room...

972
00:55:13,005 --> 00:55:16,443
you know,
more than a thousand times.

973
00:55:16,487 --> 00:55:20,012
The photographer is completely
blocking the screen.

974
00:55:20,055 --> 00:55:24,059
It looks fishy to me.

975
00:55:24,103 --> 00:55:27,759
If you're gonna release
a photo like that,

976
00:55:27,802 --> 00:55:32,154
then you've got to be truthful
about what's taking place.

977
00:55:32,198 --> 00:55:34,853
What was he looking at?

978
00:55:39,205 --> 00:55:42,339
I'll go to the New York Times
story that I saw.

979
00:55:42,382 --> 00:55:46,212
"Unlike his predecessor,
Mr. Trump does not allow

980
00:55:46,255 --> 00:55:49,084
"his staff photographer
free range

981
00:55:49,128 --> 00:55:51,217
"to capture
behind-the-scenes photographs

982
00:55:51,260 --> 00:55:54,612
"of life and work
in the White House.

983
00:55:54,655 --> 00:55:58,964
"Instead, he most often invites
Ms. Craighead

984
00:55:59,007 --> 00:56:01,836
"or other White House
photographers into the room

985
00:56:01,880 --> 00:56:06,754
specifically for the purpose
of taking an official picture."

986
00:56:06,798 --> 00:56:10,105
We need to have real moments
of real history,

987
00:56:10,149 --> 00:56:13,892
not posed moments of history.

988
00:56:14,849 --> 00:56:17,896
So, it's hard to know
what you're missing.

989
00:56:22,466 --> 00:56:24,642
I'll talk about
the bin Laden raid.

990
00:56:25,817 --> 00:56:28,297
It was a very tense day.

991
00:56:28,341 --> 00:56:32,301
Throughout that day, h-he had
meetings in the Situation Room,

992
00:56:32,345 --> 00:56:34,434
and they had set up
the communications link

993
00:56:34,478 --> 00:56:37,002
in a small conference room

994
00:56:37,045 --> 00:56:40,440
across from
the big Situation Room.

995
00:56:40,484 --> 00:56:42,790
So, when President Obama
walked in,

996
00:56:42,834 --> 00:56:46,315
Brigadier General Brad Webb
stood up to give up his chair,

997
00:56:46,359 --> 00:56:49,188
and President Obama saw
that he was on a laptop

998
00:56:49,231 --> 00:56:51,756
communicating directly
with Admiral Bill McRaven,

999
00:56:51,799 --> 00:56:54,846
who was essentially running
the raid from Afghanistan,

1000
00:56:54,889 --> 00:56:56,935
and said, "No, no, no,
you stay right there.

1001
00:56:56,978 --> 00:56:58,893
I'm just gonna pull up
a chair next to you."

1002
00:56:58,937 --> 00:57:01,069
So, that's why President Obama
is seated where he is.

1003
00:57:01,113 --> 00:57:03,985
You've got
the most powerful people

1004
00:57:04,029 --> 00:57:06,031
in the executive branch
of our government

1005
00:57:06,074 --> 00:57:09,077
all gathered in this room
at the same time,

1006
00:57:09,121 --> 00:57:11,123
and yet they were powerless.

1007
00:57:11,166 --> 00:57:13,908
There was essentially
nothing they could do

1008
00:57:13,952 --> 00:57:17,085
to affect the outcome
of what they were witnessing.

1009
00:57:17,129 --> 00:57:21,307
And now it's up to those
Special Forces on the ground.

1010
00:57:21,350 --> 00:57:24,223
That bin Laden photo
is so powerful

1011
00:57:24,266 --> 00:57:25,442
because nobody is posing.

1012
00:57:25,485 --> 00:57:27,705
Um, you can see the nerves

1013
00:57:27,748 --> 00:57:29,228
on everybody's face
in that room.

1014
00:57:29,271 --> 00:57:31,317
Tonight, I can report

1015
00:57:31,360 --> 00:57:34,015
to the American people
and to the world

1016
00:57:34,059 --> 00:57:36,322
that the United States
has conducted an operation

1017
00:57:36,365 --> 00:57:40,108
that killed Osama bin Laden,
the leader of al-Qaeda.

1018
00:57:40,152 --> 00:57:42,502
The picture in the bottom right

1019
00:57:42,546 --> 00:57:46,375
is right after they knew
they had killed bin Laden.

1020
00:57:46,419 --> 00:57:48,203
And you don't see
any high fives.

1021
00:57:48,247 --> 00:57:52,730
It's, like, very anticlimactic
in a lot of ways.

1022
00:57:54,209 --> 00:57:56,081
As a photographer,

1023
00:57:56,124 --> 00:58:01,216
as well as-as a human being,
what were some of the things

1024
00:58:01,260 --> 00:58:04,176
which were easy
for you to capture,

1025
00:58:04,219 --> 00:58:07,527
and what were
a little more difficult?

1026
00:58:07,571 --> 00:58:10,487
I-I don't know that there was
anything that was easy.

1027
00:58:10,530 --> 00:58:15,970
The hardest things were
when he would have to meet

1028
00:58:16,014 --> 00:58:19,321
with families that were
affected by tragedies.

1029
00:58:19,365 --> 00:58:21,367
And I am... I'm sad to say

1030
00:58:21,410 --> 00:58:24,239
that we had to do this
too many times.

1031
00:58:24,283 --> 00:58:26,894
And it was incredibly
emotional and difficult.

1032
00:58:26,938 --> 00:58:30,463
I felt intrusive at times
but also that it was

1033
00:58:30,507 --> 00:58:33,379
part of my job
to document these moments.

1034
00:58:33,422 --> 00:58:35,076
But I would say
that that was the...

1035
00:58:35,120 --> 00:58:38,036
those were
the most difficult times.

1036
00:58:38,079 --> 00:58:39,385
You dialed 911.

1037
00:58:39,428 --> 00:58:40,908
What's the location
of your emergency?

1038
00:58:40,952 --> 00:58:42,388
Sandy Hook Elementary School.

1039
00:58:42,431 --> 00:58:44,172
-12 Dickenson Drive.
- I think there's

1040
00:58:44,216 --> 00:58:46,914
somebody shooting in here,
at Sandy Hook School.

1041
00:58:46,958 --> 00:58:49,090
Somebody's got a gun.
I saw a glimpse of somebody.

1042
00:58:49,134 --> 00:58:50,570
They're running
down the hallway.

1043
00:58:50,614 --> 00:58:52,267
-Okay...
-Ooh, they're still running.

1044
00:58:52,311 --> 00:58:54,008
They're still shooting.

1045
00:58:54,052 --> 00:58:56,837
There's still
shooting going on. Please.

1046
00:59:01,407 --> 00:59:04,802
One of the worst days
of his presidency was the day

1047
00:59:04,845 --> 00:59:08,849
of the Sandy Hook Elementary
School shootings in Newtown.

1048
00:59:08,893 --> 00:59:10,895
John Brennan,
who at that time was

1049
00:59:10,938 --> 00:59:12,984
the Homeland Security advisor,

1050
00:59:13,027 --> 00:59:14,899
was updating him
throughout the morning

1051
00:59:14,942 --> 00:59:18,859
and then finally came in and
said that 26 people had died,

1052
00:59:18,903 --> 00:59:21,601
including 20 grade school kids.

1053
00:59:21,645 --> 00:59:24,952
He's reacting as a parent

1054
00:59:24,996 --> 00:59:26,606
more than probably
as a president,

1055
00:59:26,650 --> 00:59:29,827
imagining the horror...

1056
00:59:29,870 --> 00:59:33,134
of kissing your child
in the morning,

1057
00:59:33,178 --> 00:59:36,181
sending them off to school
on the school bus,

1058
00:59:36,224 --> 00:59:37,965
and then only a few hours later

1059
00:59:38,009 --> 00:59:40,620
having to identify
your child's body

1060
00:59:40,664 --> 00:59:44,537
who's been shot multiple times
at close range.

1061
00:59:44,581 --> 00:59:48,541
He felt it was
his duty as president

1062
00:59:48,585 --> 00:59:52,023
to speak to the nation
in th-these times of tragedy.

1063
00:59:52,066 --> 00:59:54,068
I had never seen him
do this before--

1064
00:59:54,112 --> 00:59:56,984
blow his cheeks
as if he was unsure

1065
00:59:57,028 --> 00:59:59,117
whether he would be able
to keep it together.

1066
01:00:00,988 --> 01:00:05,427
The majority of those
who died today were children.

1067
01:00:05,471 --> 01:00:07,516
Uh, beautiful little kids

1068
01:00:07,560 --> 01:00:10,345
between the ages of five
and ten years old.

1069
01:00:21,922 --> 01:00:24,359
They had their entire lives
ahead of them:

1070
01:00:24,403 --> 01:00:27,972
birthdays, graduations,

1071
01:00:28,015 --> 01:00:30,148
weddings,

1072
01:00:30,191 --> 01:00:32,237
kids of their own.

1073
01:00:37,024 --> 01:00:39,374
Among the fallen
were also teachers,

1074
01:00:39,418 --> 01:00:41,420
men and women
who devoted their lives

1075
01:00:41,463 --> 01:00:45,032
to helping our children
fulfill their dreams.

1076
01:00:45,076 --> 01:00:48,209
So, our hearts are broken today.

1077
01:00:48,253 --> 01:00:50,385
This evening,
Michelle and I will do

1078
01:00:50,429 --> 01:00:53,388
what I know every parent
in America will do,

1079
01:00:53,432 --> 01:00:56,043
which is hug our children
a little tighter.

1080
01:00:56,087 --> 01:00:58,698
And we'll tell them
that we love them,

1081
01:00:58,742 --> 01:01:02,615
and we'll remind each other
how deeply we love one another.

1082
01:01:02,659 --> 01:01:04,530
But there are families
in Connecticut

1083
01:01:04,573 --> 01:01:06,706
who cannot do that tonight,

1084
01:01:06,750 --> 01:01:09,578
and they need
all of us right now.

1085
01:01:09,622 --> 01:01:12,494
In the hard days to come,
that community needs us

1086
01:01:12,538 --> 01:01:15,236
to be at our best as Americans,

1087
01:01:15,280 --> 01:01:19,458
and I will do everything in
my power as president to help.

1088
01:01:20,502 --> 01:01:23,941
Malia, who had just
gotten home from school,

1089
01:01:23,984 --> 01:01:27,074
was standing in the hallway,
and he latched onto her.

1090
01:01:27,118 --> 01:01:29,424
He just would not let her go.

1091
01:01:32,732 --> 01:01:37,519
Two days later, he was invited
to come to Newtown.

1092
01:01:37,563 --> 01:01:39,608
It happened to
coincide with, uh,

1093
01:01:39,652 --> 01:01:42,046
Sasha's annual,
uh, dance recital,

1094
01:01:42,089 --> 01:01:44,352
which he was gonna have to miss.

1095
01:01:44,396 --> 01:01:47,660
So he decided to stop by
the dress rehearsal

1096
01:01:47,704 --> 01:01:51,664
in the afternoon before flying
up to, uh, Newtown.

1097
01:01:51,708 --> 01:01:54,145
He sat in a box by himself,

1098
01:01:54,188 --> 01:01:57,278
started editing his remarks
already for that night.

1099
01:01:57,322 --> 01:01:59,454
And then,
when Sasha was dancing,

1100
01:01:59,498 --> 01:02:01,413
he would turn and watch her.

1101
01:02:01,456 --> 01:02:04,459
At one point,
I went down to the third row

1102
01:02:04,503 --> 01:02:06,766
to take some pictures
of Sasha in her outfit

1103
01:02:06,810 --> 01:02:08,376
'cause I figured those would be

1104
01:02:08,420 --> 01:02:10,204
the only pictures
they would have.

1105
01:02:10,248 --> 01:02:13,599
When I was standing there,
this one young dance troupe

1106
01:02:13,642 --> 01:02:15,253
had filed out from backstage

1107
01:02:15,296 --> 01:02:17,995
and sat in the row
right in front of me,

1108
01:02:18,038 --> 01:02:21,085
and there were about
20 or 25 little kids.

1109
01:02:21,128 --> 01:02:23,043
I said, "How old are you guys?"

1110
01:02:23,087 --> 01:02:24,697
She said, "We're six."

1111
01:02:24,741 --> 01:02:27,439
And I thought to myself,
you know,

1112
01:02:27,482 --> 01:02:29,615
this is what just got
wiped out in Newtown

1113
01:02:29,658 --> 01:02:31,269
was this whole row.

1114
01:02:31,312 --> 01:02:33,358
And I had to...
I had to turn away

1115
01:02:33,401 --> 01:02:35,664
and start... I started crying.

1116
01:02:35,708 --> 01:02:38,537
We flew up to Connecticut,

1117
01:02:38,580 --> 01:02:40,626
and he spent
two and a half hours

1118
01:02:40,669 --> 01:02:43,455
meeting with the families.

1119
01:02:43,498 --> 01:02:47,198
This is the Wheeler family,
Francine and David.

1120
01:02:47,241 --> 01:02:50,723
Their son, Ben, who was six,
was shot and killed.

1121
01:02:50,767 --> 01:02:52,769
And their oldest son, Nate,

1122
01:02:52,812 --> 01:02:56,033
hid in a school supply closet
during the shooting.

1123
01:03:03,867 --> 01:03:06,173
We learned
that the president was coming.

1124
01:03:09,568 --> 01:03:13,137
We waited for a long time
because...

1125
01:03:13,180 --> 01:03:14,834
the president's people
were trying

1126
01:03:14,878 --> 01:03:16,705
to hurry him
through the process.

1127
01:03:16,749 --> 01:03:19,578
And he said, "No.

1128
01:03:19,621 --> 01:03:22,363
I will take
as long as it takes."

1129
01:03:24,278 --> 01:03:29,414
He comes in, and... and he made
a beeline for Francine.

1130
01:03:36,725 --> 01:03:39,816
And he just wrapped her up.

1131
01:03:47,388 --> 01:03:49,826
Just held her.

1132
01:03:51,915 --> 01:03:55,396
Let her, you know,
sob into his lapel.

1133
01:04:01,315 --> 01:04:03,100
And I asked him...

1134
01:04:03,143 --> 01:04:05,493
I said, "Is this different?"

1135
01:04:08,801 --> 01:04:12,849
And he said,
"I hope so, but I don't know."

1136
01:04:16,243 --> 01:04:20,421
There's no substitute
for empathy.

1137
01:04:20,465 --> 01:04:25,296
It is a foundational
relationship

1138
01:04:25,339 --> 01:04:27,907
between human beings.

1139
01:04:27,951 --> 01:04:32,129
And to know that the guy
who's running the show...

1140
01:04:33,957 --> 01:04:38,309
...cares enough
not just to come and visit

1141
01:04:38,352 --> 01:04:40,137
but to...

1142
01:04:41,921 --> 01:04:46,447
...to let you know
that he cares about you,

1143
01:04:46,491 --> 01:04:48,667
that he cares about your wife.

1144
01:04:50,190 --> 01:04:51,800
You know, that he cares

1145
01:04:51,844 --> 01:04:54,499
about your nine-year-old kid.

1146
01:05:00,548 --> 01:05:06,467
We are so good at dismissing...

1147
01:05:06,511 --> 01:05:09,644
the people that we elect
to serve us.

1148
01:05:09,688 --> 01:05:14,171
We're so good at turning them
into things that aren't people.

1149
01:05:15,650 --> 01:05:19,176
And we have to be
very careful about that.

1150
01:05:19,219 --> 01:05:22,483
Because when you do that,

1151
01:05:22,527 --> 01:05:25,878
then you get the elected
officials that you deserve.

1152
01:05:29,882 --> 01:05:33,973
I've seen him run
up these steps many times.

1153
01:05:34,017 --> 01:05:37,368
He didn't run
up the steps that night.

1154
01:05:47,552 --> 01:05:49,423
Whether it's Newtown

1155
01:05:49,467 --> 01:05:51,469
or Aurora
or any of these places,

1156
01:05:51,512 --> 01:05:53,297
Pete was the only guy
who was always

1157
01:05:53,340 --> 01:05:54,907
in those rooms, you know?

1158
01:05:55,995 --> 01:05:58,345
And so, you could
sense his anger

1159
01:05:58,389 --> 01:06:00,913
at-at what was going on
around him.

1160
01:06:02,436 --> 01:06:05,309
So, can we go to the place

1161
01:06:05,352 --> 01:06:08,616
-that I usually get the, uh,
cherry tomatoes? -Yeah.

1162
01:06:08,660 --> 01:06:12,272
Uh, can I get one kale bunch?

1163
01:06:12,316 --> 01:06:14,405
-Yeah, yeah. Thanks. Yep.
-Thank you.

1164
01:06:14,448 --> 01:06:16,015
Presidential
preference poll. All you need

1165
01:06:16,059 --> 01:06:18,278
-is a Sharpie to vote.
-Oh, yeah, I'm voting.

1166
01:06:18,322 --> 01:06:20,672
I know Joe Biden,
so I'm voting for Joe Biden.

1167
01:06:20,715 --> 01:06:22,282
Wait a minute.
You're Pete, right?

1168
01:06:22,326 --> 01:06:23,588
-Yeah. Yeah.
-I was at your show last night.

1169
01:06:23,631 --> 01:06:25,546
-Oh, you were? Oh, great.
-It was terrific.

1170
01:06:25,590 --> 01:06:26,591
-Nice. Thanks. -Oh! I was, too!
-It was excellent. Yeah, yeah.

1171
01:06:26,634 --> 01:06:28,245
-Yeah.
-I'm Toni Brown.

1172
01:06:28,288 --> 01:06:29,550
-Oh, hi. Nice to meet you.
-Welcome to Madison.

1173
01:06:30,769 --> 01:06:32,510
DIRECTOR/PRODUCER:
Rumor has it

1174
01:06:32,553 --> 01:06:34,555
that the president
takes responsibility

1175
01:06:34,599 --> 01:06:36,949
-for this happy union.

1176
01:06:36,993 --> 01:06:40,909
So, you know, as president,
he started in 2009.

1177
01:06:40,953 --> 01:06:44,304
So, as he gets to know me more

1178
01:06:44,348 --> 01:06:48,047
and he gets to meet Patti,

1179
01:06:48,091 --> 01:06:50,310
he would tell people
that he-he liked her

1180
01:06:50,354 --> 01:06:52,921
better than he liked me,
you know.

1181
01:06:52,965 --> 01:06:56,360
Um, and so he'd start
working on me,

1182
01:06:56,403 --> 01:06:58,579
like, in terms of, like,
"Well, wait a minute.

1183
01:06:58,623 --> 01:07:01,017
So, you guys have been
together for,"

1184
01:07:01,060 --> 01:07:03,584
you know, whatever it was--
15, 17 years--

1185
01:07:03,628 --> 01:07:05,760
"and what... so, why haven't
you gotten married?"

1186
01:07:05,804 --> 01:07:08,415
President Obama pushes
everybody to get married.

1187
01:07:08,459 --> 01:07:11,418
Like, he loves...
he loves love stories.

1188
01:07:11,462 --> 01:07:13,072
Michelle was on the trip,

1189
01:07:13,116 --> 01:07:15,031
and we're sitting
in the conference room,

1190
01:07:15,074 --> 01:07:18,643
and he's just, like,
n-not letting it go,

1191
01:07:18,686 --> 01:07:21,472
and he's turning to Michelle
and saying,

1192
01:07:21,515 --> 01:07:24,605
"Can you believe that Pete
won't ask Patti to marry him?"

1193
01:07:24,649 --> 01:07:26,825
And-and that's
when he brought up,

1194
01:07:26,868 --> 01:07:28,653
"We'll do the wedding
in the Rose Garden,

1195
01:07:28,696 --> 01:07:31,917
and I'll officiate,"
and I remember I said to him...

1196
01:07:31,960 --> 01:07:34,528
I said, "No, I don't want
to do that," and he goes,

1197
01:07:34,572 --> 01:07:38,010
-"What? The Rose Garden's not
good enough for you?" -

1198
01:08:22,533 --> 01:08:26,493
The most interesting part
of my job was that I saw him

1199
01:08:26,537 --> 01:08:28,974
in all these different
compartments of his life.

1200
01:08:29,017 --> 01:08:31,019
I saw him as a dad.

1201
01:08:31,063 --> 01:08:33,413
I saw how he behaved
with his children.

1202
01:08:33,457 --> 01:08:36,895
I watched this family
grow up, essentially.

1203
01:08:36,938 --> 01:08:40,072
You know, I think Sasha
and Malia did such a great job

1204
01:08:40,116 --> 01:08:41,726
under the limelight.

1205
01:08:41,769 --> 01:08:45,860
And it-it's really
a testament to Michelle

1206
01:08:45,904 --> 01:08:48,080
and Barack.

1207
01:08:48,124 --> 01:08:51,170
And Marian Robinson,
who you see here on the right,

1208
01:08:51,214 --> 01:08:53,607
Michelle's mom, helped out,

1209
01:08:53,651 --> 01:08:58,003
especially when Michelle went
on solo trips overseas.

1210
01:08:58,046 --> 01:09:02,007
This is him singing
"Happy Birthday" to Michelle.

1211
01:09:02,050 --> 01:09:05,053
We were on a boat ride
in the Gulf Coast.

1212
01:09:05,097 --> 01:09:08,144
I saw Michelle
stroking his hand.

1213
01:09:08,187 --> 01:09:10,494
Then at the second inauguration,

1214
01:09:10,537 --> 01:09:12,017
just before they boarded
the motorcade,

1215
01:09:12,060 --> 01:09:13,453
I, uh, approached him.

1216
01:09:13,497 --> 01:09:14,976
Michelle was standing
next to him.

1217
01:09:15,020 --> 01:09:17,544
I said, "Mr. President,
do you mind if I ride

1218
01:09:17,588 --> 01:09:21,548
in the limousine with you
for part of the parade route?"

1219
01:09:21,592 --> 01:09:24,943
And he looked me in the eye,
and he said,

1220
01:09:24,986 --> 01:09:27,032
"Well, Michelle and I
were planning to make out."

1221
01:09:28,860 --> 01:09:30,470
And then he just
started laughing.

1222
01:09:30,514 --> 01:09:33,125
He's like, "Of course you can,"
you know.

1223
01:09:37,260 --> 01:09:40,828
And he'll tell you that
the best day at the White House

1224
01:09:40,872 --> 01:09:43,527
was the day that Congress
passed the Affordable Care Act.

1225
01:09:43,570 --> 01:09:44,876
Not true.

1226
01:09:44,919 --> 01:09:46,660
The best day for him
at the White House

1227
01:09:46,704 --> 01:09:49,576
was the day that Sasha's coach
could not make the game

1228
01:09:49,620 --> 01:09:51,187
and he got to coach the game.

1229
01:09:53,580 --> 01:09:55,626
With a little help
from Reggie Love.

1230
01:09:55,669 --> 01:10:00,631
So, um, the Sidwell Friends
Vipers were undefeated.

1231
01:10:00,674 --> 01:10:02,720
And during the first half,

1232
01:10:02,763 --> 01:10:06,245
under the tutelage
of Coach Obama,

1233
01:10:06,289 --> 01:10:07,681
they fell behind.

1234
01:10:09,727 --> 01:10:11,250
So he called time-out.

1235
01:10:13,644 --> 01:10:15,950
And Sasha's looking at him like,

1236
01:10:15,994 --> 01:10:19,867
"Dad, you are embarrassing me."

1237
01:10:19,911 --> 01:10:22,261
These are, like,
nine-year-old girls,

1238
01:10:22,305 --> 01:10:24,089
and he's coaching as if

1239
01:10:24,132 --> 01:10:26,091
this is game seven
of the NBA Finals.

1240
01:10:34,926 --> 01:10:38,799
And one my favorite days
was we had a big snowstorm.

1241
01:10:38,843 --> 01:10:41,062
It was called "Snowmageddon."

1242
01:10:41,106 --> 01:10:43,978
And he ended up coming out
for about two hours.

1243
01:10:44,022 --> 01:10:45,980
It was just
the three of them and me.

1244
01:10:46,024 --> 01:10:48,113
At one point,
they were in the Rose Garden.

1245
01:10:48,156 --> 01:10:51,029
And Sasha, you can see
what she's about to do.

1246
01:10:52,770 --> 01:10:55,163
-She did it.

1247
01:10:55,207 --> 01:10:58,166
I mean, like, who else
could throw a snowball

1248
01:10:58,210 --> 01:11:00,168
in the face of the president
of the United States

1249
01:11:00,212 --> 01:11:03,650
and not get tackled
by the Secret Service?

1250
01:11:03,694 --> 01:11:06,044
To this day, he has a photo

1251
01:11:06,087 --> 01:11:08,612
that's the lock screen photo
on his iPad,

1252
01:11:08,655 --> 01:11:10,918
and it's this picture
of the three of them

1253
01:11:10,962 --> 01:11:13,138
doing snow angels
on the South Lawn.

1254
01:11:13,181 --> 01:11:14,792
Aw.

1255
01:11:14,835 --> 01:11:16,097
And then they grow up.

1256
01:12:30,302 --> 01:12:34,393
One-one of the most emotional
days, uh, was in 2015.

1257
01:12:34,437 --> 01:12:36,352
In the morning on this day,

1258
01:12:36,395 --> 01:12:39,267
the Supreme Court upheld
same-sex marriage.

1259
01:12:40,138 --> 01:12:41,966
It was a beautiful,

1260
01:12:42,009 --> 01:12:44,664
summery, warm morning.

1261
01:12:45,491 --> 01:12:47,014
Everyone knew that that decision

1262
01:12:47,058 --> 01:12:48,886
would come down that day.
We didn't know when.

1263
01:12:48,929 --> 01:12:51,410
Um, and like every morning,
went in, unlocked the door,

1264
01:12:51,454 --> 01:12:53,412
um, turned on the television.

1265
01:12:53,456 --> 01:12:55,762
You can hear
the cheer in the crowd.

1266
01:12:55,806 --> 01:12:57,198
-A very dramatic moment here.

1267
01:12:57,242 --> 01:12:58,983
-A five-four decision.

1268
01:12:59,026 --> 01:13:02,769
And I called Joe,
my now husband,

1269
01:13:02,813 --> 01:13:08,035
um, who was, uh, there,
and I said, "It's done."

1270
01:13:08,079 --> 01:13:12,649
And the president walked in
and put his arm around me.

1271
01:13:12,692 --> 01:13:16,087
It felt like,
for that period of time,

1272
01:13:16,130 --> 01:13:17,958
we were on
the right side of history.

1273
01:13:18,002 --> 01:13:20,396
The president did an interview
in the Cabinet Room

1274
01:13:20,439 --> 01:13:22,310
several months before then.

1275
01:13:22,354 --> 01:13:24,051
I've been going through
an evolution on this issue.

1276
01:13:24,095 --> 01:13:27,228
Uh, when I think about
members of my own staff

1277
01:13:27,272 --> 01:13:29,448
who are in incredibly committed

1278
01:13:29,492 --> 01:13:32,799
and monogamous relationships--
same-sex relationships--

1279
01:13:32,843 --> 01:13:35,802
I think same-sex couples
should be able to get married.

1280
01:13:35,846 --> 01:13:38,065
And when
he vocalized in that interview

1281
01:13:38,109 --> 01:13:41,068
his support
for same-sex marriage,

1282
01:13:41,112 --> 01:13:43,288
that was a-a moment
for me, as well.

1283
01:13:44,245 --> 01:13:46,813
Sometimes there aredays like this,

1284
01:13:46,857 --> 01:13:51,731
when that slow, steady effort

1285
01:13:51,775 --> 01:13:55,474
is rewarded with justice

1286
01:13:55,518 --> 01:13:59,347
that arrives like a thunderbolt.

1287
01:14:01,872 --> 01:14:05,049
Then, later that morning,
we flew to Charleston.

1288
01:14:05,092 --> 01:14:07,007
President Obama was
invited to give

1289
01:14:07,051 --> 01:14:11,098
the eulogy for
Reverend Clementa Pinckney.

1290
01:14:11,142 --> 01:14:13,405
He was one of the nine
African Americans

1291
01:14:13,449 --> 01:14:15,233
shot and killed

1292
01:14:15,276 --> 01:14:18,758
at Emanuel African
Methodist Episcopal Church

1293
01:14:18,802 --> 01:14:22,501
by somebody who had prayed
with this group of nine people

1294
01:14:22,545 --> 01:14:25,373
at a prayer service for an hour

1295
01:14:25,417 --> 01:14:28,246
and then took out a gun
and killed them all.

1296
01:14:28,289 --> 01:14:31,728
And President Obama
wanted to give a eulogy

1297
01:14:31,771 --> 01:14:33,860
with the theme of "grace."

1298
01:14:34,992 --> 01:14:36,384
"Amazing Grace."

1299
01:14:40,563 --> 01:14:42,303
"Amazing Grace."

1300
01:15:08,591 --> 01:15:10,549
Yes!

1301
01:15:10,593 --> 01:15:14,510
-Sing, Mr. President.

1302
01:15:23,475 --> 01:15:25,999
It was emotional in
the moment, as you can imagine.

1303
01:15:26,043 --> 01:15:28,785
I didn't know he was
gonna sing "Amazing Grace."

1304
01:15:28,828 --> 01:15:31,918
And I didn't realize,
like, the-the struggle.

1305
01:15:31,962 --> 01:15:34,530
You could see him
trying to decide,

1306
01:15:34,573 --> 01:15:36,444
"Can I pull this off?

1307
01:15:36,488 --> 01:15:39,099
Should I speak the words
or sing them?"

1308
01:15:39,143 --> 01:15:41,449
And he's trying to get
the courage up to sing,

1309
01:15:41,493 --> 01:15:42,973
and he... and he did.

1310
01:16:08,433 --> 01:16:12,393
Bidding farewell to the
reverend's daughters and widow.

1311
01:16:13,220 --> 01:16:17,877
Meeting with some of
the other families backstage.

1312
01:16:17,921 --> 01:16:21,185
And then we flew back to D.C.

1313
01:16:21,228 --> 01:16:24,188
Someone had decided
to light the White House

1314
01:16:24,231 --> 01:16:26,494
in rainbow colors.

1315
01:16:26,538 --> 01:16:30,498
These are all White House staff
out on the North Lawn.

1316
01:16:30,542 --> 01:16:31,848
People were crying.

1317
01:16:31,891 --> 01:16:34,328
People were drinking champagne.

1318
01:16:36,113 --> 01:16:38,942
It was, I think,
one of only two times

1319
01:16:38,985 --> 01:16:41,466
that I called my wife.

1320
01:16:41,509 --> 01:16:43,337
I said to her, "I don't care

1321
01:16:43,381 --> 01:16:45,035
"what you're doing
or what you're wearing.

1322
01:16:45,078 --> 01:16:46,993
"Get in a taxi
and come to the White House.

1323
01:16:47,037 --> 01:16:50,910
You need to be here
to see this celebration."

1324
01:17:08,711 --> 01:17:10,364
How many people are you gonna be

1325
01:17:10,408 --> 01:17:11,975
-speaking in front of?
-There's gonna be, like,

1326
01:17:12,018 --> 01:17:13,367
-800 people there.

1327
01:17:13,411 --> 01:17:15,152
-Yeah.
-You ready, man?

1328
01:17:15,195 --> 01:17:16,457
Am I ready?

1329
01:17:16,501 --> 01:17:18,372
-Yeah, you ready?
-Yeah.

1330
01:17:18,416 --> 01:17:19,939
Was Obama nice?

1331
01:17:19,983 --> 01:17:21,419
Yeah.

1332
01:17:21,462 --> 01:17:23,551
You'll hear all about him today.

1333
01:17:23,595 --> 01:17:25,118
Sweet.

1334
01:17:27,555 --> 01:17:31,298
Clearly, I could see

1335
01:17:31,342 --> 01:17:35,085
what he meant to
the African American community.

1336
01:17:35,128 --> 01:17:38,131
As-as time went on,
I was probably more aware

1337
01:17:38,175 --> 01:17:43,006
of just trying to tell the story

1338
01:17:43,049 --> 01:17:47,619
of what it meant for them,

1339
01:17:47,663 --> 01:17:51,405
uh, to have...

1340
01:17:51,449 --> 01:17:54,582
you know,
to have him up onstage.

1341
01:18:02,286 --> 01:18:05,681
It was often
in the back of my mind

1342
01:18:05,724 --> 01:18:08,074
that he was the first
African American president

1343
01:18:08,118 --> 01:18:12,252
and I had to incorporate that
into my photography.

1344
01:18:12,296 --> 01:18:16,300
This is Ruby Bridges,
in person and as pictured

1345
01:18:16,343 --> 01:18:19,259
in the famous
Norman Rockwell painting.

1346
01:18:19,303 --> 01:18:21,000
She was the first
African American

1347
01:18:21,044 --> 01:18:24,090
to desegregate schools
in Louisiana.

1348
01:18:24,134 --> 01:18:27,006
I think it's fair to say that,
if it hadn't been for you guys,

1349
01:18:27,050 --> 01:18:29,008
I might not be here
and we wouldn't be looking

1350
01:18:29,052 --> 01:18:30,401
-at this together, so...
-Yeah.

1351
01:18:31,532 --> 01:18:35,667
This is Paul McCartney
singing "Michelle" to Michelle.

1352
01:18:35,711 --> 01:18:37,582
The next day, I was walking

1353
01:18:37,625 --> 01:18:39,627
on the colonnade
with President Obama.

1354
01:18:39,671 --> 01:18:41,499
I said, "That was
really cool last night

1355
01:18:41,542 --> 01:18:43,501
when McCartney sang 'Michelle.'"

1356
01:18:43,544 --> 01:18:45,329
And President Obama
turned to me.

1357
01:18:45,372 --> 01:18:48,114
He goes, "Yeah, I don't think
Michelle Obama growing up

1358
01:18:48,158 --> 01:18:51,422
"on the South Side of Chicago
as a young African American kid

1359
01:18:51,465 --> 01:18:53,641
"thought someday she'd be
sitting in the front row

1360
01:18:53,685 --> 01:18:56,035
"of the White House
as first lady

1361
01:18:56,079 --> 01:18:59,647
as a former Beatle sang
her namesake song."

1362
01:19:00,736 --> 01:19:02,999
And then there's this picture.

1363
01:19:03,042 --> 01:19:05,131
This is Jacob Philadelphia.

1364
01:19:05,175 --> 01:19:07,394
At one point, Jacob's mom said,

1365
01:19:07,438 --> 01:19:09,396
"Mr. President,
Jacob has a question for you."

1366
01:19:09,440 --> 01:19:12,095
So Jacob's kind of like...

1367
01:19:12,138 --> 01:19:15,141
"Mr. President,
my friends told me

1368
01:19:15,185 --> 01:19:17,665
that my haircut
is just like yours."

1369
01:19:17,709 --> 01:19:20,538
-And with that, uh,

1370
01:19:20,581 --> 01:19:23,497
President Obama bent over,
Jacob touched his head.

1371
01:19:23,541 --> 01:19:26,196
Click, I got one photo,
and it was gone.

1372
01:19:27,719 --> 01:19:31,462
That image waswhat Barack Obama had said to us

1373
01:19:31,505 --> 01:19:33,464
two years ago
in an office in Chicago.

1374
01:19:33,507 --> 01:19:36,641
That kid literally
can't even believe,

1375
01:19:36,684 --> 01:19:38,686
even though he's seeing the
president of the United States

1376
01:19:38,730 --> 01:19:41,211
in the Oval Office,
until he can feel his hair,

1377
01:19:41,254 --> 01:19:43,691
he doesn't truly believe
that he's just like me.

1378
01:19:43,735 --> 01:19:46,651
That single image
stands for so much more.

1379
01:19:46,694 --> 01:19:48,740
It stands for how kids

1380
01:19:48,784 --> 01:19:53,223
will see themselves
differently forever.

1381
01:19:53,266 --> 01:19:54,746
But two, I think it tells you

1382
01:19:54,790 --> 01:19:56,356
something about Barack Obama.

1383
01:19:56,400 --> 01:19:59,098
That, at the behest
of a five-year-old kid,

1384
01:19:59,142 --> 01:20:00,578
you would go ahead, bend over

1385
01:20:00,621 --> 01:20:03,363
and let that kid
touch your head like that.

1386
01:20:10,240 --> 01:20:13,765
The fact that
Pete succeeded in offering

1387
01:20:13,809 --> 01:20:18,726
a window into the man
that was occupying the office

1388
01:20:18,770 --> 01:20:21,642
to show what the office can be,
what it has been,

1389
01:20:21,686 --> 01:20:24,863
what it can be again,
to show the...

1390
01:20:24,907 --> 01:20:27,823
the kind of
integrity of purpose,

1391
01:20:27,866 --> 01:20:31,348
I think that's inspiring.

1392
01:20:31,391 --> 01:20:33,393
The presidency is about

1393
01:20:33,437 --> 01:20:36,396
a lot more than
even just policy.

1394
01:20:36,440 --> 01:20:39,704
There's something intangible
about that office.

1395
01:20:39,747 --> 01:20:42,402
What do people remember
about the Obamas?

1396
01:20:42,446 --> 01:20:43,882
You know,
they remember the marriage

1397
01:20:43,926 --> 01:20:45,579
between Barack
and Michelle Obama.

1398
01:20:45,623 --> 01:20:48,626
They remember
a certain speech he gave.

1399
01:20:48,669 --> 01:20:51,455
They remember how the rooms

1400
01:20:51,498 --> 01:20:53,500
that used to be
only full of white men

1401
01:20:53,544 --> 01:20:58,766
are suddenly full of people
of different races and genders.

1402
01:20:58,810 --> 01:21:01,117
That's what they take away
from the Obama presidency.

1403
01:21:01,160 --> 01:21:03,771
And frankly, that's going to
have a lasting impact

1404
01:21:03,815 --> 01:21:06,774
on this country
and on... on the world.

1405
01:21:06,818 --> 01:21:10,778
I think Obama understood
that the-the images of him

1406
01:21:10,822 --> 01:21:12,258
not only being president

1407
01:21:12,302 --> 01:21:14,521
but being president
in a certain way,

1408
01:21:14,565 --> 01:21:16,610
that could change attitudes.

1409
01:21:23,313 --> 01:21:26,272
It did, I think,
change perspectives

1410
01:21:26,316 --> 01:21:29,667
on what is possible
and-and what is achievable

1411
01:21:29,710 --> 01:21:33,149
for people of color
in this country.

1412
01:21:33,192 --> 01:21:36,761
But it also woke this, you know,

1413
01:21:36,804 --> 01:21:40,634
constantly present, ugly,

1414
01:21:40,678 --> 01:21:43,159
horrific racism.

1415
01:21:48,642 --> 01:21:50,296
When I first met Pete,

1416
01:21:50,340 --> 01:21:53,560
his politics were
not at all evident.

1417
01:21:53,604 --> 01:21:57,521
You know, I always wondered,
what did Pete Souza get

1418
01:21:57,564 --> 01:21:59,523
from President Obama?

1419
01:21:59,566 --> 01:22:01,351
Like, how did he change

1420
01:22:01,394 --> 01:22:04,484
because he spent so much time
with President Obama?

1421
01:22:07,400 --> 01:22:10,534
The political concern--
you know, the-the feeling

1422
01:22:10,577 --> 01:22:14,625
that you have to care
and make a difference.

1423
01:22:14,668 --> 01:22:16,932
You can make a difference.

1424
01:22:18,368 --> 01:22:21,762
He could no longer be
this fly on the wall.

1425
01:22:21,806 --> 01:22:23,590
And I would see these moments

1426
01:22:23,634 --> 01:22:27,507
where Pete became furious
for President Obama.

1427
01:22:27,551 --> 01:22:30,684
The way in which
Pete has been most changed

1428
01:22:30,728 --> 01:22:33,383
is by becoming
a vocal political person

1429
01:22:33,426 --> 01:22:36,429
because of President Obama.

1430
01:22:37,909 --> 01:22:39,693
Set the refugees free!

1431
01:22:39,737 --> 01:22:41,608
Set the refugees free!

1432
01:22:41,652 --> 01:22:44,698
Hundreds swarmed the
arrivals terminal at SFO today.

1433
01:22:44,742 --> 01:22:46,831
Citizens who are
in shock at the speed of which

1434
01:22:46,874 --> 01:22:49,355
President Trump's executive
orders are turning into action.

1435
01:22:53,838 --> 01:22:56,493
Pete Souza is a very unlikely

1436
01:22:56,536 --> 01:22:59,844
Instagram superstar, attracting
millions of followers

1437
01:22:59,887 --> 01:23:01,889
after he started replying
to President Trump's tweets

1438
01:23:01,933 --> 01:23:04,631
by posting
Obama White House photos,

1439
01:23:04,675 --> 01:23:07,547
along with snarky captions.

1440
01:23:07,591 --> 01:23:10,289
He is President Obama's
former chief photographer,

1441
01:23:10,333 --> 01:23:14,598
whose Instagram is now full of
pics showing glaring contrast

1442
01:23:14,641 --> 01:23:17,644
in how the two presidents
handled certain situations.

1443
01:23:17,688 --> 01:23:20,604
It's earned him the moniker
"the King of Shade."

1444
01:23:29,961 --> 01:23:32,442
Do you have a picture
for every single thing

1445
01:23:32,485 --> 01:23:35,314
that Donald Trump has
lied about with Barack Obama?

1446
01:23:35,358 --> 01:23:37,055
-Pretty much. Pretty much, yeah.-

1447
01:23:37,099 --> 01:23:39,057
How much joy do you get
when you do it?

1448
01:23:39,101 --> 01:23:40,928
Uh, I get a lot of joy,
actually.

1449
01:23:40,972 --> 01:23:42,843
-Like, do you giggle?

1450
01:23:42,887 --> 01:23:44,454
I-I picture you sitting at home,

1451
01:23:44,497 --> 01:23:46,369
like, giggling,
working on your laptop.

1452
01:23:46,412 --> 01:23:48,762
Uh, yeah, my-my wife said she
didn't know I was that funny.

1453
01:23:48,806 --> 01:23:50,677
And I said, "You just haven't
been paying attention."

1454
01:23:53,245 --> 01:23:55,421
When I first started out,

1455
01:23:55,465 --> 01:23:59,077
I was trying to be humorous
in my comments.

1456
01:23:59,121 --> 01:24:01,079
You know, I had
all these reporters

1457
01:24:01,123 --> 01:24:02,602
wanting to interview me

1458
01:24:02,646 --> 01:24:04,430
about what I was doing
on Instagram,

1459
01:24:04,474 --> 01:24:06,084
and I would not respond.

1460
01:24:06,128 --> 01:24:08,347
Just say,
"It speaks for itself."

1461
01:24:08,391 --> 01:24:09,827
In the words
of some younger people,

1462
01:24:09,870 --> 01:24:12,569
they say you troll
President Trump. Why?

1463
01:24:12,612 --> 01:24:15,789
The photographs
that I post on Instagram now

1464
01:24:15,833 --> 01:24:19,576
and the-the words that I write,
I think, speak for themselves.

1465
01:24:19,619 --> 01:24:22,622
And I think I've gotten
more and more out there

1466
01:24:22,666 --> 01:24:28,454
in terms of making it
pretty damn clear how I feel.

1467
01:24:50,172 --> 01:24:52,565
There are also a lot of
questions about the phone call

1468
01:24:52,609 --> 01:24:54,698
you received
from President Trump.

1469
01:24:54,741 --> 01:24:56,613
-What he said was...
-The president?

1470
01:24:56,656 --> 01:24:58,136
Yes, the president.

1471
01:24:58,180 --> 01:25:01,705
Said that he knew
what he signed up for

1472
01:25:01,748 --> 01:25:03,881
but it hurts anyways.

1473
01:25:03,924 --> 01:25:07,058
He couldn't remember
my husband name.

1474
01:25:07,102 --> 01:25:09,887
If my husband risked his life
for our country,

1475
01:25:09,930 --> 01:25:12,411
why can't you remember his name?

1476
01:25:19,679 --> 01:25:21,725
You know,
since leaving the White House,

1477
01:25:21,768 --> 01:25:24,684
I made this conscious decision

1478
01:25:24,728 --> 01:25:25,946
that I couldn't
not say anything,

1479
01:25:25,990 --> 01:25:28,645
that I couldn't not speak out.

1480
01:25:30,734 --> 01:25:35,782
It was all about the dignityof the office of the presidency.

1481
01:25:35,826 --> 01:25:37,480
Especially for young people,

1482
01:25:37,523 --> 01:25:39,177
what I didn't want them
to think--

1483
01:25:39,221 --> 01:25:43,834
this is the way a president
is supposed to behave.

1484
01:25:43,877 --> 01:25:45,401
No, it's not.

1485
01:25:46,489 --> 01:25:50,188
Pete bore witness to an ethical,

1486
01:25:50,232 --> 01:25:53,670
decent, not perfect,

1487
01:25:53,713 --> 01:25:57,064
certainly fallible, law-abiding,

1488
01:25:57,108 --> 01:26:02,635
humane presidency
for eight years.

1489
01:26:02,679 --> 01:26:06,073
And my hunch, when I saw Pete

1490
01:26:06,117 --> 01:26:09,076
draw devastating contrasts

1491
01:26:09,120 --> 01:26:12,732
between what was and what is,

1492
01:26:12,776 --> 01:26:16,736
was he just felt
he had no choice.

1493
01:26:16,780 --> 01:26:20,871
Whatever instinct
that Pete may have had

1494
01:26:20,914 --> 01:26:24,701
to remain behind the scenes

1495
01:26:24,744 --> 01:26:28,095
seems to have been obliterated

1496
01:26:28,139 --> 01:26:32,926
by the harm
that President Trump was doing

1497
01:26:32,970 --> 01:26:37,496
and the urgency
to call that out,

1498
01:26:37,540 --> 01:26:39,933
to mobilize people.

1499
01:26:39,977 --> 01:26:41,848
This was a 911.

1500
01:26:44,155 --> 01:26:46,113
He got progressively worse.

1501
01:26:46,157 --> 01:26:48,942
I just thought it was dangerous.

1502
01:26:48,986 --> 01:26:51,249
So, I think, over time, yeah,

1503
01:26:51,293 --> 01:26:53,730
my Instagram posts
got more pointed.

1504
01:26:53,773 --> 01:26:58,038
I thought that Trump
had just gone way too far,

1505
01:26:58,082 --> 01:27:01,825
and I said, "Okay, I want
to do this book, 'Shade.'"

1506
01:27:02,826 --> 01:27:05,611
Trump tweet on one page,

1507
01:27:05,655 --> 01:27:07,831
my response on the other.

1508
01:27:09,136 --> 01:27:13,140
Obama: An Intimate Portrait,
which is a coffee table book

1509
01:27:13,184 --> 01:27:16,970
based on the eight years
of the Obama presidency,

1510
01:27:17,014 --> 01:27:19,973
will hopefully last a lifetime.

1511
01:27:20,017 --> 01:27:24,848
The Shadebook, hopefully,
will outlive its uselessness

1512
01:27:24,891 --> 01:27:29,983
on January 20, 2021.

1513
01:27:30,027 --> 01:27:32,769
-Peter Souza. Hey, baby.

1514
01:27:32,812 --> 01:27:34,553
Pete Souza.

1515
01:27:36,207 --> 01:27:38,601
I wasn't surprised to see him

1516
01:27:38,644 --> 01:27:40,864
hit this nerve on social media.

1517
01:27:40,907 --> 01:27:43,170
I was surprised
to see him, like,

1518
01:27:43,214 --> 01:27:46,783
on a television show
talking, you know?

1519
01:27:46,826 --> 01:27:48,611
You know,
he's a behind-the-scenes guy.

1520
01:27:48,654 --> 01:27:52,310
And I think it spoke
to just how offended he was

1521
01:27:52,354 --> 01:27:54,007
by the new reality

1522
01:27:54,051 --> 01:27:57,663
and how he felt compelled
to speak up.

1523
01:27:57,707 --> 01:27:59,665
So, we usually
don't see this from

1524
01:27:59,709 --> 01:28:01,276
-a White House photographer...
-No.

1525
01:28:01,319 --> 01:28:03,669
...who has that fly-on-the-wall
quality to him or to her.

1526
01:28:03,713 --> 01:28:06,063
What made you want to step out
and-and make this stand?

1527
01:28:06,106 --> 01:28:07,804
Well, I think
this guy disrespects

1528
01:28:07,847 --> 01:28:09,806
the office of the presidency.

1529
01:28:09,849 --> 01:28:11,286
I mean, it's as simple as that.

1530
01:28:11,329 --> 01:28:13,679
I always thought of you
as fairly apolitical.

1531
01:28:13,723 --> 01:28:15,290
So, what is it about this moment

1532
01:28:15,333 --> 01:28:17,901
and this president that has...
that has changed you?

1533
01:28:17,944 --> 01:28:19,903
He bullies people. He lies.

1534
01:28:20,773 --> 01:28:24,037
He calls you guys the, uh,
enemy of the people.

1535
01:28:24,081 --> 01:28:27,345
He doesn't believe
our own intelligence agencies.

1536
01:28:27,389 --> 01:28:29,086
There's just too many things.

1537
01:28:29,129 --> 01:28:31,871
I'm trying to make an argument

1538
01:28:31,915 --> 01:28:34,221
that this is not who we are.

1539
01:28:34,265 --> 01:28:36,876
That this president
really doesn't speak for us

1540
01:28:36,920 --> 01:28:40,053
as Americans, what it means
to be an American.

1541
01:28:40,097 --> 01:28:41,968
Believe me,
he gets lots of hate mail,

1542
01:28:42,012 --> 01:28:44,754
'cause I get a lot of them
on his behalf.

1543
01:28:44,797 --> 01:28:47,278
He's not loved
by everyone, for sure.

1544
01:28:49,672 --> 01:28:53,197
But for the people
who feel strongly, as he does,

1545
01:28:53,240 --> 01:28:55,068
they see him as almost a leader

1546
01:28:55,112 --> 01:28:57,332
to help them get
that message across

1547
01:28:57,375 --> 01:29:00,073
and to help make some change
in this country right now.

1548
01:29:00,117 --> 01:29:02,249
-How are you?
-It's so good to see you.

1549
01:29:02,293 --> 01:29:03,773
-Congratulations to you.
-Thank you. You, too.

1550
01:29:03,816 --> 01:29:05,209
-My God, you're kicking ass.
-Huh?

1551
01:29:05,252 --> 01:29:06,384
-How you doing?
-I'm doing good.

1552
01:29:06,428 --> 01:29:07,777
-How about you?
-I'm good.

1553
01:29:07,820 --> 01:29:09,648
-I love the book.
-Thank you.

1554
01:29:09,692 --> 01:29:11,998
I was... I saw POTUS today.

1555
01:29:12,042 --> 01:29:14,740
And one of the things
that I was telling him was

1556
01:29:14,784 --> 01:29:16,742
-you can tell stories now...
-Mm-hmm.

1557
01:29:16,786 --> 01:29:19,397
...and in context,
they make complete sense.

1558
01:29:19,441 --> 01:29:23,270
Like, you couldn't have
defended yourself

1559
01:29:23,314 --> 01:29:26,752
the way you did--
about Benghazi, for instance--

1560
01:29:26,796 --> 01:29:28,275
-while you're at...
-No.

1561
01:29:28,319 --> 01:29:30,669
And yet, I had no choice
'cause I was,

1562
01:29:30,713 --> 01:29:32,279
you know, speaking on behalf
of the government

1563
01:29:32,323 --> 01:29:34,151
and on behalf of the president.

1564
01:29:34,194 --> 01:29:36,762
Uh, and that was, you know,
what I wanted to do

1565
01:29:36,806 --> 01:29:38,764
and what I committed to do
at the time.

1566
01:29:38,808 --> 01:29:40,940
But that meant that,
in that period,

1567
01:29:40,984 --> 01:29:43,029
I didn't have my own voice.

1568
01:29:44,117 --> 01:29:45,771
I'm a journalist who wishes

1569
01:29:45,815 --> 01:29:48,078
I could give my opinion
once in a while.

1570
01:29:48,121 --> 01:29:51,951
I'm wondering, as the White
House official photographer,

1571
01:29:51,995 --> 01:29:55,781
did you have to wait for
a certain time to throw shade?

1572
01:29:55,825 --> 01:29:57,740
Yeah, I would never
have done it,

1573
01:29:57,783 --> 01:30:00,656
uh, during his presiden...
I would never have done it

1574
01:30:00,699 --> 01:30:05,269
if, you know, Jeb Bush
or John Kasich or...

1575
01:30:05,312 --> 01:30:08,968
Um, look, this is... this is
not a partisan thing to me.

1576
01:30:09,012 --> 01:30:14,844
This is somebody that I feel
is not a good person,

1577
01:30:14,887 --> 01:30:17,455
doesn't respect
the office of the presidency,

1578
01:30:17,499 --> 01:30:21,154
thinks about himself
and not other people,

1579
01:30:21,198 --> 01:30:22,895
lies to us.

1580
01:30:22,939 --> 01:30:27,813
So, it-it became something
that I felt I had to do.

1581
01:30:27,857 --> 01:30:29,380
I don't think, uh,

1582
01:30:29,424 --> 01:30:32,470
a photojournalist is
supposed to be opinionated.

1583
01:30:32,514 --> 01:30:34,690
I'm now opinionated.

1584
01:30:35,517 --> 01:30:37,475
I, in some ways,

1585
01:30:37,519 --> 01:30:41,392
have ruined
any chance that I have

1586
01:30:41,436 --> 01:30:45,483
of being a working
photojournalist again.

1587
01:30:45,527 --> 01:30:48,355
But to me,
that's a small price to pay

1588
01:30:48,399 --> 01:30:51,750
for doing what I think
is the right thing.

1589
01:30:53,273 --> 01:30:55,319
Pete and I probably-- and
I've never talked about this--

1590
01:30:55,362 --> 01:30:57,060
feel a similar sense
of obligation--

1591
01:30:57,103 --> 01:30:59,105
and so do a bunch of
our other former colleagues--

1592
01:30:59,149 --> 01:31:00,977
to... to fight these battles

1593
01:31:01,020 --> 01:31:02,979
because we don't want
Obama to do it.

1594
01:31:03,022 --> 01:31:05,198
You know, or,
you know, he shouldn't do it.

1595
01:31:05,242 --> 01:31:07,897
His voice is too important
to be trivialized

1596
01:31:07,940 --> 01:31:11,248
by having to respond
to tweets, you know?

1597
01:31:12,205 --> 01:31:15,295
I've never been
overtly political,

1598
01:31:15,339 --> 01:31:17,994
and now I am political.

1599
01:31:18,037 --> 01:31:20,953
I want to make sure
everybody knows

1600
01:31:20,997 --> 01:31:25,262
that what this guy is doing
is not only not normal,

1601
01:31:25,305 --> 01:31:28,526
but it's really dangerous
to the country.

1602
01:31:28,570 --> 01:31:32,922
This is a serious job,
being the president.

1603
01:31:32,965 --> 01:31:35,272
I'm gonna do everything I can

1604
01:31:35,315 --> 01:31:37,796
to make sure
people don't forget that.

1605
01:31:42,279 --> 01:31:44,890
President Obama invited
the president-elect

1606
01:31:44,934 --> 01:31:47,763
just two days after the electionto the White House.

1607
01:31:47,806 --> 01:31:50,156
It was a surreal day.

1608
01:31:50,200 --> 01:31:54,073
And it just so happens
by sheer coincidence

1609
01:31:54,117 --> 01:31:57,773
that another meeting
had been scheduled that day,

1610
01:31:57,816 --> 01:32:02,038
uh, with a young boy,
Alex Myteberi.

1611
01:32:02,081 --> 01:32:06,346
Alex had written a letter
to President Obama

1612
01:32:06,390 --> 01:32:08,784
that he was so taken with

1613
01:32:08,827 --> 01:32:14,572
that he read excerpts of it
at his U.N. speech that year.

1614
01:32:14,616 --> 01:32:16,269
I can still remember it,

1615
01:32:16,313 --> 01:32:18,445
seeing Omran in the ambulance,

1616
01:32:18,489 --> 01:32:21,927
face covered in blood
and ash and dust.

1617
01:32:21,971 --> 01:32:25,017
It looks horrific to you
that someone your age,

1618
01:32:25,061 --> 01:32:27,977
like, younger than me-- Omran
was a year younger than me--

1619
01:32:28,020 --> 01:32:30,327
being hurt in an ambulance
in another country

1620
01:32:30,370 --> 01:32:33,460
while I'm just sitting around
at my grandma's watching TV.

1621
01:32:34,940 --> 01:32:36,072
For days and days,

1622
01:32:36,115 --> 01:32:37,552
he wanted to ask about Omran.

1623
01:32:37,595 --> 01:32:39,989
"Show me Syria.
Where is Aleppo?"

1624
01:32:40,032 --> 01:32:43,035
First, he wanted to send
a letter to Omran.

1625
01:32:43,079 --> 01:32:45,429
And when I told him,"Well, I don't have his address,

1626
01:32:45,472 --> 01:32:47,300
so I don't think
he's gonna get it,"

1627
01:32:47,344 --> 01:32:50,303
that's when he decided
to write to the president.

1628
01:32:50,347 --> 01:32:52,305
My thought was, "Okay, here
goes the Santa Claus letter."

1629
01:32:52,349 --> 01:32:55,221
You know, that's the idea--
you just write it...

1630
01:32:55,265 --> 01:32:58,964
-Doing something. -...you drop
it, then that's the end of it.

1631
01:32:59,008 --> 01:33:01,358
-Little did we know.

1632
01:33:01,401 --> 01:33:06,581
He said he wanted Omran to come
live with him and his family.

1633
01:33:06,624 --> 01:33:09,322
"Since he won't bring toys,"
Alex wrote,

1634
01:33:09,366 --> 01:33:12,238
"I will share my bike, and I
will teach him how to ride it."

1635
01:33:14,545 --> 01:33:17,940
"We will give him a family,
and he will be our brother."

1636
01:33:19,376 --> 01:33:21,944
Those are the words
of a six-year-old boy.

1637
01:33:23,336 --> 01:33:24,642
It's so nice to meet you.

1638
01:33:24,686 --> 01:33:26,644
-How have you been?
-Good.

1639
01:33:26,688 --> 01:33:28,167
You look very nice in your suit.

1640
01:33:28,211 --> 01:33:29,342
-Thank you.
-Is that a new suit?

1641
01:33:29,386 --> 01:33:30,517
-Mm-hmm.
-I thought so.

1642
01:33:32,345 --> 01:33:35,914
You being so... so nice and kind

1643
01:33:35,958 --> 01:33:39,004
hopefully makes other people
think the same way.

1644
01:33:39,048 --> 01:33:42,181
So, I was very proud of you.
Hmm.

1645
01:33:43,226 --> 01:33:45,010
This picture was made

1646
01:33:45,054 --> 01:33:49,014
22 minutes after Trump had left.

1647
01:33:49,058 --> 01:33:53,192
This six-year-old kid,
the son of two immigrants,

1648
01:33:53,236 --> 01:33:56,326
showed more compassion,

1649
01:33:56,369 --> 01:34:00,678
more empathy,
more understanding,

1650
01:34:00,722 --> 01:34:04,551
and knows more about
what it means to be an American

1651
01:34:04,595 --> 01:34:06,641
than our current president.

1652
01:34:37,454 --> 01:34:39,674
This is something
that we take very seriously.

1653
01:34:39,717 --> 01:34:41,719
Uh, as soon as
there is an outbreak

1654
01:34:41,763 --> 01:34:43,678
anywhere in the world
of any disease,

1655
01:34:43,721 --> 01:34:46,593
the CDC, uh, is in communication

1656
01:34:46,637 --> 01:34:48,508
with the
World Health Organization,

1657
01:34:48,552 --> 01:34:50,989
uh, and other
multilateral agencies

1658
01:34:51,033 --> 01:34:54,993
to try to make sure that we've
got an appropriate response.

1659
01:34:57,256 --> 01:35:00,346
Having watched President Obama,

1660
01:35:00,390 --> 01:35:04,002
based on the way
he handled the H1N1 epidemic,

1661
01:35:04,046 --> 01:35:07,353
and the Ebola crisis in 2014--

1662
01:35:07,397 --> 01:35:10,008
I mean, if he had
been president now,

1663
01:35:10,052 --> 01:35:12,054
he would have been
facing this virus, too.

1664
01:35:12,097 --> 01:35:13,533
He couldn't have stopped it.

1665
01:35:13,577 --> 01:35:18,756
But he would have listened
to the science early on.

1666
01:35:18,800 --> 01:35:23,065
It's really on Trump for not
having a nationwide shutdown.

1667
01:35:24,283 --> 01:35:26,111
Put it in perspective.

1668
01:35:26,155 --> 01:35:30,246
This is 40 9/11s.

1669
01:35:30,289 --> 01:35:32,422
40 9/11s.

1670
01:35:32,465 --> 01:35:34,772
That's how many people
have died.

1671
01:35:56,751 --> 01:35:59,754
I view everything now through
the lens of the presidency.

1672
01:36:01,712 --> 01:36:04,193
I think one thing that's changed

1673
01:36:04,236 --> 01:36:07,196
is that the vast majority
of the country

1674
01:36:07,239 --> 01:36:11,504
now realizes that having
a competent, honest person

1675
01:36:11,548 --> 01:36:14,725
in the presidency
really does matter.

1676
01:36:18,424 --> 01:36:20,165
I want to speak directly

1677
01:36:20,209 --> 01:36:22,472
to the young men and women
of color in this country.

1678
01:36:22,515 --> 01:36:24,169
I want you to know
that you matter.

1679
01:36:24,213 --> 01:36:26,476
I want you to know that
your lives matter.

1680
01:36:26,519 --> 01:36:28,347
You have the power
to make things better,

1681
01:36:28,391 --> 01:36:32,525
and you have helped to make
the entire country feel,

1682
01:36:32,569 --> 01:36:36,312
uh, as if this is something
that's got to change.

1683
01:37:41,203 --> 01:37:42,682
America's always been

1684
01:37:42,726 --> 01:37:45,294
two stories battling each other.

1685
01:37:45,337 --> 01:37:48,601
You know, the progressive,
inclusive story

1686
01:37:48,645 --> 01:37:52,779
of-of people getting more rightsand more people being allowed

1687
01:37:52,823 --> 01:37:54,912
the promise of citizenship
and opportunity

1688
01:37:54,956 --> 01:37:57,262
and struggling
to overcome things

1689
01:37:57,306 --> 01:38:00,265
versus people who don't want
to give up power, you know?

1690
01:38:01,179 --> 01:38:03,181
And if you just
stacked up the images

1691
01:38:03,225 --> 01:38:05,270
of the Obama presidency
and the Trump presidency,

1692
01:38:05,314 --> 01:38:07,794
you would see
the two stories of America

1693
01:38:07,838 --> 01:38:11,363
in the starkest
possible contrast.

1694
01:38:11,407 --> 01:38:13,496
And I think that's why
Pete's images

1695
01:38:13,539 --> 01:38:15,585
have triggered
such emotion in people--

1696
01:38:15,628 --> 01:38:17,892
'cause it's like,
no, that's my America.

1697
01:38:17,935 --> 01:38:20,372
My America is in these pictures.

1698
01:38:29,425 --> 01:38:32,297
-Yes, we did. Yes, we can.

1699
01:38:34,691 --> 01:38:37,476
Thank you. God bless you.