Obama Has Not Finalized Post-Presidential Plans, Despite Columbia Rumor
WASHINGTON, Aug 31 (Reuters) – President Barack Obama has done no final decisions about what he will do after withdrawal office, a White House pronounced on Monday, following comments by Columbia University’s boss that he looked brazen to welcoming Obama behind to campus in 2017.
“The President has prolonged talked about his honour for Columbia University and his enterprise to continue operative with them,” a White House matter pronounced in response to a Reuters query. “However, during this indicate no decisions have been finalized about his post-Presidency plans.”
Obama graduated from a New York propagandize in 1983. Columbia was also among a contenders for Obama’s presidential library, that will be built in his hometown of Chicago.Â
The Columbia Daily Spectator tyro journal quoted Columbia President Lee Bollinger as revelation a propagandize convocation: “We demeanour brazen to welcoming behind a many famous alumnus, Barack Obama, in 2017.”
The comments influenced conjecture on amicable media about Obama’s career skeleton after he leaves a White House in Jan 2017.
But a university, in a matter released after on Monday, pronounced Bollinger’s criticism “only reiterated a May 12 matter by a Barack Obama Foundation that it ‘intends to say a participation during Columbia University for a purpose of exploring and building opportunities for a prolonged tenure association’ and reflected no serve developments concerning President Obama’s plans.” (Reporting by Peter Cooney; Editing by Lisa Lambert)