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President Obama Shuts Down NYC For A Last Appearance On The David Letterman Show!

<p><span style&equals;"-webkit-text-size-adjust&colon; auto&semi; background-color&colon; rgba&lpar;255&comma; 255&comma; 255&comma; 0&rpar;&semi;">David Letterman and President&nbsp&semi;Barack Obama have something in common&colon; they are both retiring soon&excl; The last Letterman show will air on May 20th&comma; 2015 and Barack came to New York just to chat it up with his friend&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<div><span style&equals;"-webkit-text-size-adjust&colon; auto&semi; background-color&colon; rgba&lpar;255&comma; 255&comma; 255&comma; 0&rpar;&semi;"><br &sol;><&sol;span><&sol;div>&NewLine;<div><span style&equals;"-webkit-text-size-adjust&colon; auto&semi; background-color&colon; rgba&lpar;255&comma; 255&comma; 255&comma; 0&rpar;&semi;">Both&comma; Obama and Letterman say that once they&&num;8217&semi;ve retired&comma; they would like to disappear from the spot light&comma; President Obama said&comma; &&num;8220&semi;It does feel good not to have to be on the stump&&num;8221&semi;&period; The President spoke on behalf&nbsp&semi;of his wife also saying that once he is no longer president&comma; they&&num;8217&semi;d like to &nbsp&semi;get involved with causes in a &&num;8220&semi;different capacity&&num;8221&semi; like climate change and helping disadvantaged youth as well as supporting military families&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;span><&sol;div>&NewLine;<div><span style&equals;"-webkit-text-size-adjust&colon; auto&semi; background-color&colon; rgba&lpar;255&comma; 255&comma; 255&comma; 0&rpar;&semi;"><br &sol;><&sol;span><&sol;div>&NewLine;<div><span style&equals;"-webkit-text-size-adjust&colon; auto&semi; background-color&colon; rgba&lpar;255&comma; 255&comma; 255&comma; 0&rpar;&semi;">On the topic of the Baltimore Riots&comma;&nbsp&semi;Letterman had asked the President whether racism is a factor in minority communities not trusting police and he said that the effects of slavery&comma; discrimination and Jim Crow laws have definitely played a hand in that&comma; but society has made some changes that he feels are steering the country&nbsp&semi;in the right direction&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;span><&sol;div>&NewLine;<div><span style&equals;"-webkit-text-size-adjust&colon; auto&semi; background-color&colon; rgba&lpar;255&comma; 255&comma; 255&comma; 0&rpar;&semi;"><br &sol;><&sol;span><&sol;div>&NewLine;<div><span style&equals;"-webkit-text-size-adjust&colon; auto&semi; background-color&colon; rgba&lpar;255&comma; 255&comma; 255&comma; 0&rpar;&semi;">All in all&comma; President Obama says that he&&num;8217&semi;s really looking forward to playing Dominoes with Letterman&period;&nbsp&semi;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I was thinking you and me could play some dominoes together&comma;” Obama said&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;We could go to the local Starbucks and swap stories&period;”<&sol;span><&sol;div>&NewLine;<div><span style&equals;"-webkit-text-size-adjust&colon; auto&semi; background-color&colon; rgba&lpar;255&comma; 255&comma; 255&comma; 0&rpar;&semi;"><br &sol;><&sol;span><&sol;div>&NewLine;<div><span style&equals;"-webkit-text-size-adjust&colon; auto&semi; background-color&colon; rgba&lpar;255&comma; 255&comma; 255&comma; 0&rpar;&semi;">You can watch the full interview in the link provided below&excl;<&sol;span><&sol;div>&NewLine;<div><span style&equals;"-webkit-text-size-adjust&colon; 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