“It’s so important to keep these leaders at the top of our minds because they’re the people whose shoulders we stand on today. They help us understand where we come from and where we can and will go,” said Lawson, a longtime Obama supporter and U.S. ambassador to the U.N.’s International Civil Aviation Organization in his administration. “Hopefully, young kids will always be reminded of the fact that an African American man named Barack Hussein Obama was the leader of the Free World for eight years and did it with grace, humility and strength.”

Source: Los Angeles Times May 04, 2019 00:45 UTC