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| With High-Profile Help, Obama Plots |
| With High-Profile Help, Obama Plots Life After Presidency
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| UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
, 17-August-2015
14:12:44 PM |
| The dinner in the private upstairs dining room of the White House went so late that Reid Hoffman, the LinkedIn billionaire, finally suggested around midnight that President Barack Obama might like to go to bed.
"Feel free to kick us out," Hoffman recalled telling the president.
But Obama was just getting started. "I'll kick you out when it's time," he replied. He then lingered with his wife, Michelle, and their 13 guests - among them novelist Toni Morrison, hedge fund manager Marc Lasry and Silicon Valley venture capitalist John Doerr - well past 2 a.m.
Obama "seemed incredibly relaxed," said another guest, writer Malcolm Gladwell. He recalled how the group, which also included actress Eva Longoria and Vinod Khosla, a founder of Sun Microsystems, tossed out ideas about what Obama should do after he leaves the White House.
"Where we'll end up, I don't know yet," said Marty Nesbitt, the president's longtime Chicago friend who is leading an extensive planning effort for Obama's library and an anticipated global foundation.
Publicly, Obama betrays little urgency about his future. Privately, he is preparing for his postpresidency with the same fierce discipline and fundraising ambition that characterized the 2008 campaign that got him to the White House.
The long-running dinner in February was part of a methodical effort taking place inside and outside the White House as the president, first lady and a cadre of top aides map out a postpresidential infrastructure and endowment they estimate could cost as much as $1 billion. The president's aides did not ask any of the guests for library contributions after the dinner, but a number of those at the table could be donors in the future.
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