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wrapping up his first term in office with a tradition that goes back decades, hosting the previous president for the unveiling of his official presidential portrait. on that day, in may of 2012. obama made this statement about the point of these portraits, as an enduring member of the presidents temporary time in office serving the people. >> now the white house is many things at once. it is a working office. it is a living museum. it is an enduring symbol of our democracy. but at the ...

things at once. it is a working office. it is a living museum. it is an enduring symbol of our democracy. but at the end of the day, when the visitors go home and the lights go down, a few of us are blessed with the tremendous honor to actually live here. i think it is fair to say that every president is acutely aware that we are just temporary residence. we are renters here. we are charged with the upkeep and tell our lease runs out. but we also leave a police of ourself in this place...

You ran your own like as hard and as well as you can, and then you handed off to someone else. knowing that your work will be incomplete. the portraits hanging in the white house chronicle, the runners in that race. each of us tasked with trying to bring the country that we love closer to its highest aspirations. >> now the reason this event was held today and not during trumps term in office, the reason it has been a decade since we have seen one of these unveilings, is because for the first ti...

>> i have always described the presidency as a relay race. you take the baton from someone, you ran your own like as hard and as well as you can, and then you handed off to someone else. knowing that your work will be incomplete. the portraits hanging in the white house chronicle, the runners in that race. each of us tasked with trying to bring the country that we love closer to its highest aspirations. >> now the reason this event was held today and not during trumps term in office, the reason ...