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When President Obama was sworn in yesterday, he was surrounded by family — quite a change from the typical white Protestant presidential family. To discuss this changing American portrait we are joined by New York Times’ writer Jodi Kantor.
When President Obama was sworn in yesterday, he was surrounded by family. That family was a rainbow of colors and ethnicities including his Kenyan step-grandmother, his Indonesian-American half-sister, Michelle Obama’s black cousins and brother, his Chinese-Canadian brother-in-law, and a rabbi. It is quite a change from the typical white Protestant presidential family. To discuss this changing American portrait we are joined by New York Times’ writer Jodi Kantor.