In the face of change, the timeless Barbara Walters scores another “get” with an exclusive interview with the Obamas, in which the new President talks about moral responsibility and the First Lady reveals that her daughters will be making their own beds in the White House.
Detroit automakers, Barack Obama tells her, are “a little tone deaf to what’s happening in America right now…a problem for the captains of industry, generally. When people are pulling down hundred-million-dollar bonuses on Wall Street, and taking enormous risks with other people’s money…they’re not seeing what’s going on out there, and one of the things I hope my presidency helps to usher in is a return to an ethic of responsibility.”
In the interview, there are echoes of JFK’s Inaugural Address (“Ask not what your country can do for you but what you can do for your country”):