When Obama was an Illinois legislator about the run for US Senate and before the Chicago Newspapers torpedoed Ryan by getting a sympathetic judge to unseal his divorce records, he was being interviewed by a Chicago radio station. The question of “higher office” was brought up, seemingly in jest by the interviewer. Obama made a reference to being ineligible by virtue of his birth and they immediately moved on to another subject. Somehow, that interview which I recall quite well was lost to journalistic history and likely Democrat shenanigans. His birth certificate fiasco was obviously fraud perpetrated by someone not very good at faking documents (photoshop and layers were not a thing back when he was born in the 60s) but the willing press was not interested and the Republicans did not have the gonads to push the narrative. I believe it was Hillary that began the conversation but McCain was too RINO to push the issue.
And didn’t it have African American listed as race? That wasn’t a term used in the 60s.