A day later, President Obama did it in three seconds, with a hug that will go down in history. If Bill Clinton was, famously, our first “black” president, Obama is, in many ways, our first “female” president. So The Hug wasn’t just about him passing the baton or her expressing gratitude. As the video that played before his speech made clear, he is possibly our most physical president, here reaching out to brush the cheek of a child, there letting a boy touch his hair. But The Hug, that was something else.

Source: Los Angeles Times July 28, 2016 23:03 UTC