Three years after they were unearthed, President Obama still doesn’t want to read the letters an archive has kept from his father.
The New York Times reported Saturday that the Schomburg Center invited President Obama to see the newly discovered documents in 2013, but the president hasn’t gotten around to it.
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“Nearly three years later, as Mr. Obama celebrates his last Father’s Day in the White House, the center is still waiting for a response,” the newspaper reports.
The unearthed letters include about two dozen of his father’s letters, including his transcripts from the University of Hawaii and Harvard, references from professors, advisers and supporters.
Most of the letters — both typed and handwritten — describe his studies in the United States, but also “lays bare the beginnings of the fractured relationship between father and son,” the newspaper reports.
The elder Obama went to study in Hawaii where he met his second wife, who later bore him a son who would become president. They divorced three years after Barack was born, and Obama Sr. moved to Massachusetts to study at Harvard University.
A senior White House official said the president would probably consider reading them once he has left office next year.
