WHITE HOUSE.
AND HOW IT STARTED IN NEW
HAMPSHIRE.
JOSH: AS THE ULTIMATE OUTSIDER
WHO FOUGHT HIS WAY TO THE WHITE
HOUSE, DONALD TRUMP CERTAINLY
HAS A STORY.
BUT THE REALITY IS HE HAS BEEN
IN THE PUBLIC EYE FOR DECADES.
A STARK CONTRAST TO HIS
PREDECESSOR, WHO JUST ABOUT TEN
YEARS AGO CAME OUT OF NOWHERE TO
SHOCK THE WORLD, WITH A LITTLE
HELP FROM THE PEOPLE OF NEW
HAMPSHIRE.
HE COULD BE THE MOST
RECOGNIZABLE PERSON ON THE FACE
OF THE PLANET, A GLOBAL FIGURE
FOR THE BETTER PART OF A DECADE,
BUT ON DECEMBER 9, 2006, AND AT
MANCHESTER AIRPORT, BARACK OBAMA
WAS JUST ANOTHER FACE IN THE
CROWD.
BUT LOOKING BACK THE MAN WHO
PICKED HIM UP THAT NIGHT SENSED
EARLY ON, THERE WAS SOMETHING
DIFFERENT ABOUT THIS FIRST TERM
SENATOR.
>> BARACK OBAMA HAD THIS AMAZING
MATURTITY POLITICAL MATURITY
EVEN THOUGH HE'D ONLY BEEN IN
THE SENATE FOR TWO YEARS.
>> I WILL BE CAMPAIGNING HARD IN
NEW HAMPSHIRE AND TRYING TO WIN
THE PRIMARY.
THIS IS KIND OF NICE.
>> AND THE ANONIMITY WAS SHORT
LIVED, SMALL GROUPS IN A
BACKYARD IN KEENE QUICKLY
BLOSSOMED INTO CROWDS, THEN A
MOVEMENT THAT HIS CAMPAIGN CO
CHAIR JIM DEMERS SAYS RENERGIZED
AND GOT PEOPLE OUT OF THEIR
CHAIRS.
>> WE SAW IT RIGHT HERE IN NEW
HAMPSHIRE ARE THOUSANDS OF
PEOPLE VOLUNTEERED FOR THE
CAMPAIGN, SOMETHING WE HAD NOT
SEEN FOR YEARS.
YOUNG PEOPLE GOT INVOLVED.
WE HAD NOT SEEN THAT KIND OF
ENGAGEMENT SINCE THE VIETNAM
WAR.
PRESIDENT OBAMA: I WILL SAY IT
IS RAFFLING, PARTICULARLY TO MY
WIFE.
>> SPEAKING OF MICHELE.
NED HELMS SAYS IT WAS A DURING
PRIVATE HOUSE PARTY EARLY IN THE
CAMPAIGN THAT HE REALIZED SHE
WASN'T JUST THE WIFE OF A
CANDIDATE, BUT RATHER HALF OF AN
INCREASINGLY FORMIDABLE TEAM.
QUICK SHE CAPTIVATED A CROWD OF
ABOUT 100 PEOPLE AND YOU COULD
HEAR A PIN DROP IT SHE WORKED
HER WAY THROUGH.
YOU ARE SAYING TO YOURSELF, THIS
HAS ONE BIG ASSET WORKING FOR
THEM, AND THAT WAS MICHELLE
OBAMA.
>> BUT DESPITE THE GROWING
SUPPORT AND CELEBRITY, PRIMARY
RIVAL HILLARY CLINTON HAD HER
OWN GRANITE STATE BASE THAT WAS
BUILT OVER YEARS AND WHEN IT
, BECAME APPARENT SHE WOULD WIN
A NARROW NEW HAMPSHIRE VICTORY,
HELMS REMEMBERS BARACK OBAMA
PUTTING IT ON HIMSELF TO EASE
THE PAIN FELT BY A DISAPPOINTED
CROWD.
>> YOU GOT A SENSE OF THAT SORT
OF TIMBER THAT HE HAD, THAT HE
DOESN'T GET RUFFLED, THAT HE WAS
COOL.
JOSH AND THE REST AS THEY SAY IS
: HISTORY, TURNING THE TIDE INTO
A TIDAL WAVE OBAMA WON THE
DEMOCRATIC NOMINATION, AND THEN
THE PRESIDENCY CARRYING NEW
HAMPSHIRE.
HAVING BECOME BY THIS TIME
ALMOST A MYTHIC FIGURE.
>> HE HAD A METEOR RISE FROM
WHERE HE WAS TO BECOME PRESIDENT
OF THE UNITED STATES.
IN THE BAR WAS SET EXCEPTIONALLY
HIGH.
JOSH: DESPITE THE FIRST TERM
CHALLENGES, OBAMA DEFEATED MITT
ROMNEY 4 YEARS LATER, ONCE AGAIN
WINNING THE WHITE HOUSE AND NEW
HAMPSHIRE.
AND AS HE PREPARES TO LEAVE THE
WHITE HOUSE, HELMS AND DEMERS
CANT HELP BUT THINK OF OBAMAS
SPEECH THE NIGHT HE LOST THE
PRIMARY IN 2008.
AND THE 3 SIMPLE WORDS, THAT
SEEMED TO CHANGE EVERYTHING.
>> YES WE CAN, YES WE CAN.
YES WE CAN.
>> I THINK HE WAS ABLE TO
TRANSFER THAT SENSE THAT WE CAN
ACCOMPLISH THIS.
HE'S GOING TO LEAD IT, BUT IT'S
US.
THEY CAMPAIGN BECAME ABOUT MUCH
MORE THAN JUST ABOUT BARACK AND
MICHELLE OBAMA.
IT BECAME ABOUT THE PEOPLE
THEMSELVES AND WHAT THEY COULD
DO IF THEY TOOK ON THE
RESPONSIBILITIES.
PRESIDENT OBAMA: THAT'S WHAT YOU
DID.
YOU WERE THE CHANGE.
JOSH: SO AS THE OBAMAS NOW
PREPARE TO LEAVE WASHINGTON,
MANY PEOPLE ARE WONDERING HOW
HISTORY WILL WONDER HIS
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