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60 Minutes Transcript, Barack Obama's Road To The White House, 12-28-08
60 Minutes Transcript, Barack Obama's Road To The White House, 12-28-08
60 Minutes Transcript, Barack Obama's Road To The White House, 12-28-08
See the candidate making sandwiches for his young daughters, the rising
political superstar on the campaign trail, the confident candidate poised for
victory, and the president-elect with his future first lady reflecting publicly for
the first time on the fact that they will be the first African-American couple to
occupy the White House.
First Steps
It would have been easy to dismiss him if it were not for the fact that he
was running second in the polls behind Hillary Clinton for the Democratic
presidential nomination. Watch/Read
The Primaries
Victory
The question was, would the American people elect him? Hillary Clinton
had helped heal Democratic divisions after a bitter primary fight. But
Obama entered the convention locked in a dead heat with Republican
opponent John McCain. Watch/Read
Looking Ahead
But he emerged the following week with his wife Michelle and joined 60
Minutes in a Chicago hotel suite for their first post-election interview.
Watch/Read