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Obama Foundation kicks off first leadership summit in Chicago

Name: Obama Foundation kicks off first leadership summit in Chicago
Uploaded: 2017-11-01T10:29:47Z
Duration: 2 min 34 s
Description: Former US President Barack Obama has kicked off a two-day leadership summit in his hometown of Chicago. He’s addressed 500 young people at the event, which is the first to be run by his foundation.

Former US President Barack Obama has kicked off a two-day leadership summit in his hometown of Chicago. He’s addressed 500 young people at the event, which is the first to be run by his foundation.

Former US President Barack Obama has kicked off a two-day leadership summit in his hometown of Chicago.

He’s addressed 500 young people at the event, which is the first to be run by his foundation.

Presidential foundations have a chequered history, ranging from questions of the Clinton Foundation’s funding sources to the Nixon library’s alleged whitewashing of the Watergate scandal.

Al Jazeera’s John Hendren reports from Chicago.

By John Hendren