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Did he attend classes at Columbia? Henry Franklin Graff, professor emeritus of history at Columbia for 46 years, has cast doubt on claims Obama attended classes at the New York City university. “I have no recollection of Barack Obama at Columbia, and I am sure he never attended any of my classes,” Graff told WND in a telephone interview. “For 46 years, I taught political history, diplomatic history and one of the pioneering courses on presidential history, and every future politician of note who went through Columbia in those years took one or more of my classes – every one,...

Vanity Fair magazine has published an excerpt from Washington Post reporter David Maraniss’ upcoming biography of the president entitled “Barack Obama: The Story.” -snip In December 1983 Obama met Genevieve Cook, the daughter of a prominent Australian diplomat, at a party. .....Obama and Cook lived together briefly but in May 1985 they broke up.

Blistering new biography studies Barack Obama's relationships with well-educated ex-girlfriends including Genevieve Cook and Alexandra McNear. President makes only fleeting references to former partners in his memoirs. Book by Pulitzer-winning journalist David Marannis paints unflattering picture of Obama's drive to be seen as a pioneering race warrior... inconsistencies between the Marannis book and Obama's own memoirs

Twenty-two years old, just graduated from Columbia University and about to enter his first meaningful romantic relationship, Barack Obama charmed a young Australian woman at a Christmas party in 1983. Sitting on an orange bean bag in the sixth-floor East Village apartment in New York City, Mr. Obama and Genevieve Cook, who was three years older, swapped stories about their overlapping stays in Jakarta, where he spent time as a boy. “They talked nonstop, moving from one subject to another, sharing an intense and immediate affinity, enthralled by the randomness of their meeting and how much they had in common.

He has modelled himself as a cool, calculated leader of the free world. But at the age of 22 Barack Obama had a strong 'sexual warmth' that overwhelmed his girlfriend at the time, according to a new book that identifies her for the first time. Vivid diaries written by Genevieve Cook reveal she was driven wild. She said that on Sundays the future U.S. President loved to lounge around bare chested in a white and blue sarong whilst doing the newspaper crossword. In a controversial claim she also recounted how he was deeply confused about his racial identity and 'felt...