President Obama will remain in the nation’s capital after he leaves the White House, but he hopes to transition to a normal life when he does it.
In a clip from a “60 Minutes” story aired Friday on “CBS This Morning,” host Norah O’Donnell asks Obama senior adviser Valerie Jarrett what it will be like for the current president and his successor to both live in the same city.
“President Obama will be the former president. And he’ll be a citizen just like everybody else. And he’ll behave accordingly. Of that I’m sure,” Jarrett said.
O’Donnell then asked Jarrett what exactly she meant by that.
“One of the things that I would compliment President [George W.] Bush for is — and not just President Bush but several members of his team, as well, who have said to me, we had our eight years, and now we owe you our silence,” Jarrett explained.
“And I think that’s just the way the president will behave in terms of Washington,” she added. “But does that mean that he has a platform on which he can do great good around our country and around the world? Sure. But he will leave being the president to the new president.”
The full feature on Jarrett aires Sunday in a special edition at 8 pm. In it, she will explain the dynamics of being both Obama’s close personal friend and most trusted insider.
