Genevieve Cook, a girlfriend from the US President’s youth, has shared her observations publicly for the first time about his early emotional detachment and struggle with his racial identity. Ms Cook, the daughter of an Australian diplomat, has told the author of a new biography of the first African-American President how she met Mr Obama at a New York Christmas party in 1983 and briefly lived with him.
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Ms Cook’s father, Michael, was a prominent Australian diplomat who headed the Office of National Assessments in Canberra and was appointed by the Hawke government as Australia’s ambassador to the US.
Born in 1958, Ms Cook is three years older than Mr Obama. When they met, she was working in New York as an assistant teacher for second and third-graders, having recently left a small Manhattan publishing company that employed the host of the 1983 Christmas party.
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