Overheard: Obama on How "This Town" Works

Overheard: Obama on How “This Town” Works

By Jason Dick

Posted November 8, 2013 at 12:37pm

“I’ve now been in this town long enough to know that, you know, folks like to seem important by getting their version of events in the press.”

— President Barack Obama, in an interview with NBC News that aired Thursday.

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