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Step inside the Obama Presidential Center in Chicago and discover the stories behind one of America’s most anticipated cultural landmarks. In this video, President and Mrs. Obama and the team behind the Center reveal how it’s redefining what a presidential library can be.

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00:00Welcome to the Obama Presidential Center.
00:02Even though it has our names on it, it's all for you.
00:05If I only had 30 seconds with a visitor,
00:09I would probably tell them to see the replica of the Oval Office.
00:13This is President Obama's Oval Office, just as it was.
00:16They did a good job. Looks like it's supposed to.
00:19I want to show you something pretty special.
00:21There is a copy of the letter that President Bush left for President Obama.
00:25And this letter is so kind and so decent and so patriotic
00:29that we wanted to make sure that everybody had a chance to see it.
00:32Also on the desk is his Lucky Rock and a Blackberry
00:35to remind everybody of what technology was like when he took office.
00:38President Obama usually sat right here in this chair.
00:41If there was a foreign head of state or the vice president, I would sit right here.
00:45The first time I came in here after the space was completed,
00:48it was a bit surreal and it was like a flashback, 10 years.
00:52What I did my first time coming in, which is to look up at this magnificent ceiling.
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