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Tuesday 25 april 2017
Obama dishes on leadership at 1st event since leaving office

SOPHIA TAREEN way I can to prepare the Obama told him to ditch
Associated Press next generation of leader- the clipboard. When others
CHICAGO (AP) — Former ship to take up the baton asked about being young
President Barack Obama and take their own crack in the age of social media,
used his first public ap- at changing the world,” Obama advised them to
pearance since leaving Obama said during event, limit photos posted online,
office to dole out advice which was invite-only and including being “more cir-
to young people on lead- streamed live online. cumspect about your self-
ership, managing social He told the hundreds of ies.” He also dropped in
media and even marriage. area students in the audi- a marital tidbit, saying it’s
What he didn’t do was ence that his focus after best to “listen to under-
mention his successor. holding the nation’s highest stand” instead of listening
At a forum Monday for office will be civic engage- “to respond.”
students at the University ment with young people, “I learned that in mar-
of Chicago, adjacent to and he that he hopes his riage,” he said to laughs
where his presidential li- presidential library, which from the audience. “That’ll
brary will stand, Obama will stand near the edge of save you a lot of heart-
talked about his formative campus, will be part of that Former President Barack Obama hosts a conversation on civ- ache and grief.”
experiences as a com- mission. ic engagement and community organizing, Monday, April 24, He encouraged students
munity organizer and as a Since delivering his fare- 2017, at the University of Chicago in Chicago. It’s the former to talk to people who have
president’s first public event of his post-presidential life in the
young politician running well address in his home- place where he started his political career. opposing viewpoints, ask-
for office in Illinois. But for town of Chicago in Janu- (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast) ing a college Republican
much of the panel event, ary, Obama has kept a low panelist to discuss his cam-
he listened. profile. He met privately President Donald Trump like immigration, he stuck pus experiences.
“Although there are all Sunday with a group of neared his 100-day mark to generalities. Obama said his work as a
kinds of issues that I care at risk young men, talking in office. But Obama shied He also gave advice. young organizer, which in-
about and all kinds of issues about gang violence and away from addressing spe- When a college student cluded meeting with Chi-
that I intend to work on, the opportunities for jobs. cific policies or his own two panelist asked how to con- cago public housing resi-
single most important thing His first public engage- terms as president. When duct a project involving dents, laid the foundation
I can do is to help in any ment Monday came as it came to current events, interviewing day laborers, for his time in office. q

Trump to sign orders over oil

drilling, national monuments

MATTHEW DALY nently preserve more land
JILL COLVIN and water using national
Associated Press monument designations
WASHINGTON (AP) — Presi- than any other president.
dent Donald Trump will sign The land is generally off
executive orders this week limits to timber harvesting,
aimed at expanding off- mining and pipelines, and
shore oil drilling and review- commercial development.
ing national monument Utah Republicans were in-
designations made by his furiated when Obama cre-
predecessors, continuing ated the Bears Ears Nation-
the Republican’s assault al Monument in December
on Democratic President on more than 1 million acres
Barack Obama’s environ- of land that’s sacred to Na-
mental legacy. The orders tive Americans and home
could expand oil drilling to tens of thousands of ar-
in the Arctic and Atlantic chaeological sites, includ-
oceans and upend pub- ing ancient cliff dwellings.
lic lands protections put in Republicans also objected
place in Utah, Maine and when Obama created the
other states. The Antiqui- Katahdin Woods and Wa-
ties Act of 1906 authorizes ters National Monument
the president to declare in Maine last summer on
federal lands of historic or 87,500 acres of donated
scientific value to be “na- forestland. The expanse
tional monuments” and re- includes part of the Pe-
strict how the lands can be nobscot River and stunning
used. Administration offi- views of Mount Katahdin,
cials on Monday confirmed Maine’s tallest mountain.
the expected moves. The Republicans have asked
officials spoke on condi- Trump to reverse the two
tion of anonymity to freely designations, saying they
discuss the president’s up- add an unnecessary lay-
coming actions. Obama er of federal control and
used his power under the could stymie commercial
Antiquities Act to perma- development.q