Obama: ‘People Always Talk About How Cool I Am’
‘I was thinking to myself, ‘Let’s make sure I don’t screw this up”‘
STEPHANOPOULOS: "I have one final question. I have a very strong memory of your inaugural. In that moment you're walking out of the Capitol, you see them all for the first time and you kind of pause and take it all in. Do you remember what you were thinking and feeling at that moment?"
OBAMA: "The two inaugurations were different. The first inauguration I was thinking to myself, 'Let's make sure I don't screw this up.' I think there is-- people always talk about how cool I am. I don't care how cool you are. JFK gave probably the greatest inauguration speech ever that first time, but I guarantee you when he first walked out there he was thinking, "Goodness gracious (LAUGH) this is-- this is-- this is big and I better be up to the task."
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