In an interview with the Los Angeles Times, Barack Obama described Occidental as "a wonderful, small liberal arts college. The professors were diverse and inspiring. I ended up making some lifelong friendships there, and those first two years really helped me grow up." Who knew that the next president of the United States had such a formative connection to California? Huell gets the presidential tour of Occidental College in the Eagle Rock neighborhood of Los Angeles, where Obama spent his freshman and sophomore years. Huell visits Obama's dorm room with a former classmate, talks to some of his old professors, and learns how his two years at Oxy helped to shape him.
