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The Swamp: Obama presidential library: U of Chicago?
The Swamp: Obama presidential library: U of Chicago?
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| Obama Presidential-Library Talk Revs Up Chicago’s Nobel Factory: http://bit.ly/1Ti6nd 27 days ago |
Obama presidential library: U of Chicago?
The Swamp —
by Mark Silva
Less than one year into office, people already are starting to think about President Barack Obama's presidential library.
At the University of Chicago.
It has something to do with all the Nobel Prizes (more than 80) that people affiliated with the private university have claimed - including the president, who taught constitutional law there, has a home blocks from campus and has won the 2009 Nobel Prize for Peace during his first nine months as president.
It's admittedly early to be thinking about all ...
Obama presidential library: U of Chicago?
The Swamp —
by Mark Silva
Less than one year into office, people already are starting to think about President Barack Obama's presidential library.
At the University of Chicago.
It has something to do with all the Nobel Prizes (more than 80) that people affiliated with the private university have claimed - including the president, who taught constitutional law there, has a home blocks from campus and has won the 2009 Nobel Prize for Peace during his first nine months as president.
It's admittedly early to be thinking about all ...
The Note: Option Play: Health Care Moves from ‘If’ to ‘When’
The Note —
... Another kind of early, early buzz: "President Barack Obama could bring another Nobel Prize to the University of Chicago," Bloomberg's John McCormick reports. "The school a few blocks from Obama's family home boasts more than 80 Nobel winners with ties to the campus, where he, his wife and some top advisers worked. Now a recruitment effort is percolating to have the university host the presidential library of the 2009 Peace Prize recipient." ...
The Obama Presidential Library: A legacy for Chicago. At U of Chicago?
Lynn Sweet —
... President, typically toward the end of his term in office. Right now, the appropriate course for the University is to better understand the history and structure of the federal government's modern-era presidential libraries, and how they benefit scholarship, their communities and the nation. Until the President wishes to address this issue, more specific questions are premature."
Bloomberg's John McCormick's Monday story about the prospects of an Obama library in Chicago is here.

