The farewell party, presented by BET (Black Entertainment Television), was the last in a series of concerts the first couple had hosted at the White House. “When You Left, You Took All of Me With You”.“I Decided to Become Part of That World”.They had no sense of the world they were graduating into. They did this with a mix of pride and longing-like college seniors in early May. Three months still remained before Inauguration Day, but staffers had already begun to count down the days. Then he flashed the smile that had launched America’s first black presidency, and started dancing again. At a rally in Orlando on October 28, he greeted a student who would be introducing him by dancing toward her and then noting that the song playing over the loudspeakers-the Gap Band’s “Outstanding”-was older than she was. He had been light on his feet in these last few weeks, cracking jokes at the expense of Republican opponents and laughing off hecklers. The formidable GOP strongholds of Georgia and Texas were said to be under threat. Polls in the crucial states of Virginia and Pennsylvania showed Clinton with solid advantages. It was late October, Friday the 21st, and the president had spent many of the previous weeks, as he would spend the two subsequent weeks, campaigning for the Democratic presidential nominee, Hillary Clinton. In the waning days of President Barack Obama’s administration, he and his wife, Michelle, hosted a farewell party, the full import of which no one could then grasp.
“You’re worth the whole damn bunch put together.”
“They’re a rotten crowd,” I shouted across the lawn.
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