OBAMA BABY SITTER ALASKA INTERVIEW
On Tuesday, supporters of President-elect Barack Obama looked forward to watching him take the oath of office with a sense of excitement, pride and hope for the future. Mary Toutonghi, of Soldotna, was prepared for that and another sensation: Remembrance of the 44th president as a 7-month-old baby.
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Toutonghi was living in Seattle at the time, in the early 1960s. Her husband was going to school at Seattle University, and she was a stay-at-home mom with their 18-month-old daughter.
As her daughter was born in July, 1959, and was 18 months of age when Mary baby-sat the seven month old child of Anna Obama, obvioulsy, her husband had not graduated from Seattle University in August 1961, and the child she baby-sat was born in January.