Obama 60 Minutes

President-elect Barack Obama appeared on the CBS news show 60 Minutes on November 16, 2008, in his first interview after the 2008 election. The interview was taped on Friday, November 14, 2008, and also featured his wife Michelle Obama.Variety: '60 Minutes' nabs first Obama interview (November 13, 2008)

"It can't be a blank check. My hope is that over the course of the next week, between the White House and Congress, the discussions are shaped around providing assistance but making sure that that assistance is conditioned on labor, management, suppliers, lenders, all the stakeholders coming together with a plan - what does a sustainable U.S. auto industry look like?"The Caucus (NYT): Obama Mixes the Personal and Political on '60 Minutes' (November 16, 2008)—Obama talking about the plan to bailout automakers

"There was a sense of emotion that I could see in people's faces and, and in my mother-in-law's face. You know, I mean, you think about Michelle's mom, who grew up on the west and south sides of Chicago. Who worked so hard to help Michelle get to where she is, her brother to be successful. She was sitting next to me, actually, as we were watching returns. And she's like my grandmother was, sort of a no-fuss type of person. And suddenly she just kind of reached out and she started holding my hand, you know. Kind of squeezing it. And you had this sense of, well, what's she thinking? For a black woman who grew up in the '50s, you know, in a segregated Chicago, to watch her daughter become first lady of the United States. I think there was that sense across the country. And not unique to African-Americans."The Caucus (NYT): Obama Mixes the Personal and Political on '60 Minutes' (November 16, 2008)—Obama talking about his family's reaction to him becoming the first black president