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“After my father’s death, my children were destined to find all Thanksgivings anticlimactic. No holiday meal could compete with a cast of thousands, a kilted bagpiper, and cheese sticks on silver platters.”
― Janny Scott, The Beneficiary: Fortune, Misfortune, and the Story of My Father

“As it was, she gave him the single most important gift a parent can give—“a sense of unconditional love that was big enough that, with all the surface disturbances of our lives, it sustained me, entirely.” People wonder about his calm and even-keeled manner, the [P]resident observed. He credited the temperament he was born with and the fact that “from a very early age, I always felt I was loved and that my mother thought I was special.”
― Janny Scott, A Singular Woman: The Untold Story of Barack Obama's Mother

“Central Intelligence Agency”
― Janny Scott, A Singular Woman: The Untold Story of Barack Obama's Mother

“I was mesmerized by all these foreign students,” he told me. “I wanted to be part of it.” He got a job as a grill cook in the East-West Center cafeteria”
― Janny Scott, A Singular Woman: The Untold Story of Barack Obama's Mother