It’s begun. The final week of teary-eyed goodbyes inside the White House is in full force.
Staff, friends, fundraisers and even reporters are giving the first family their send off.
Only a confident man can stand up while the world watches and tearfully thank his wife the way @POTUS did. https://t.co/XN2CxqKAlh
— Vogue Magazine (@voguemagazine) January 11, 2017
CBS started by saying it had the last TV interview with Obama, teed up for Sunday’s 60 Minutes. “President Barack Obama will appear in his last presidential interview on network television on “60 MINUTES PRESENTS Barack Obama: Eight Years in the White House,” an hour-long special broadcast Sunday, January 15 (7:00-8:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network,” it said.
Senate Democrats then sent out an email seeking donations, calling it the presidents “one final ask of you,” which they took from his farewell address in Chicago earlier this week. Celebrate the president, said the email, and “consider a contribution of any amount today.”
And on Thursday the president posted for final pictures with some staffers in an event that is will be repeated over and over in the coming seven days as Team Obama cleans out their desk to make room for President-elect Trump’s staff.
The photo note came in a White House pool report:
President Barack Obama will appear in his last presidential interview on network television on #60Minutes Sunday https://t.co/eg1avnCVjS pic.twitter.com/UcbPWbFbzB
— 60 Minutes (@60Minutes) January 11, 2017
“From the WH: The president is having a group departure photo with the United States Digital Service Staff. Pool heard cheers and saw dozens of staffers assembled on steps of Old EOB inside WH compound. Pool cd not see POTUS. Picture-taking occurred shortly after noon.”
Paul Bedard, the Washington Examiner’s “Washington Secrets” columnist, can be contacted at [email protected]
