President Obama gives back-to-school interview to kids
President Obama is a busy man, but not too busy to give a back-to-school interview to members of Scholastic’s Kids Press Corps.
The corps is a team of about 50 kids, ages 10-14, from across the country who report on news, entertainment, and sports from their hometowns.
Obama sat down at the White House with kid reporters Jacob Schroeder and Topanga Sena for an exclusive back-to-school interview. There are several video excerpts from the interview on the kids corps homepage, here, and below, you canplay the excerpt in which Obama tells the kids where he was on Sept. 11, 2001, and his thoughts about the 10th anniversary.
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This was written by H. Buford Barr, who teaches marketing and communication at Santa Clara University’s Leavey School of Business and College of Arts & Sciences. He has been teaching at the undergraduate level for 20 years and has 30 years of experience in high-tech marketing, branding, advertising, and public relations.
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