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Former President Barack Obama caught up with a younger man with whom he had a famously touching encounter on the White Home 13 years in the past to congratulate him on graduating highschool.

A video Obama posted to Twitter on Friday confirmed him and Jacob Philadelphia reminiscing concerning the second through which the then-5-year-old Philadelphia requested the nation’s first black president “Is your hair like mine?” throughout a go to to the Oval Workplace in 2009. Obama then leaned down earlier than the younger black baby and requested if he “needed to test and see,” after which the boy touched his head.

Describing a photograph of that second taken by the White Home photographer, Obama mentioned, “I feel this image embodied one of many hopes that I would had once I first began operating for workplace.”

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The picture was taken when Carlton Philadelphia, a Nationwide Safety Council staffer, introduced his spouse and two sons, Isaac and Jacob, to the Oval Workplace for a departure picture. After the change between Obama and Jacob Philadelphia, the picture hung within the halls of the West Wing for a number of years throughout the Obama administration.

As he talked remotely with the previous president, Jacob Philadelphia mentioned he “form of” remembered touching Obama’s hair when discussing the second and described his assembly with Obama as “a reasonably large spotlight of my life.” He additionally mentioned it was “very fantastic to see illustration” within the U.S. authorities.

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“If I get to see one other black man be on the prime, be at that pinnacle, then I need to comply with that lead,” Jacob Philadelphia mentioned.

Obama mentioned Jacob Philadelphia is graduating from highschool “at present” and can proceed on to the College of Memphis to check political science. “I couldn’t be extra pleased with him,” the previous president mentioned.