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California's Gold with Huell Howser
Barack Obama's California College Days
Season 10
Episode 1016
Join Huell as he gets the presidential tour of Occidental College in Eagle Rock, where Barack Obama spent his freshman and sophomore years. He'll visit his dorm room, talk to some of his old professors, and learn how his two years there helped to shape him. In an interview with the Los Angeles Times, Obama described Occidental as "a wonderful, small liberal arts college."
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