After next week, President Barack Obama will say goodbye to the White House. For the first time in eight years, Obama won't be a president, but a citizen, just like us. In an interview with 60 Minutes, Obama talked about some of the things he plans on doing with his time now that he's not running the free world.
Obama said he'd like to take a vacation, work on his presidential library and set up a foundation. "I’m not going to Wall Street," he said. "The amount of time that I’ll be investing in issues is going to be high. But it’ll be necessarily in a different capacity."
The former POTUS also plans on writing another book. It's something Michelle Obama is also planning on doing. The Washington Post reported that the First Lady is working on her memoir, while longtime aide Melissa Winter thinks there will be more books to come.
“Probably down the line [there are] many books in her,” Winter said. “I think she’d be a wonderful children’s book author. We haven’t set up a process for that, [but] down the line it would be a natural way to exhale from an experience like this.”
Obama told 60 Minutes that he plans on doing "a little puttering" before getting back to teaching. "I do not expect to be behind a desk a lot," he explained. "I look forward to teaching the occasional class, 'cause I was a professor. And I had fun doing it."
When it came to what Obama was most excited to do after he left office, there was only one thing. "I’m going to spend time with Michelle," he said. "And, you know, we got some catching up to do. We’ve both been busy."
As for what he's going to do on January 21st — the first day of the rest of his life — Obama wasn't sure. But he had an idea of what he wouldn't be doing.
"Well, here’s one thing, I’m not setting my alarm," he said. "That, I’m certain of."
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