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How President Obama Wrote His “Love Letter to Boston”
Essay for The Boston Globe Magazine,
As one of his speechwriters, I had a sense that this tragedy struck close to home for the president. Obama knew Boston. As a law student at Harvard, he lived in Somerville. He gave his breakout political speech, at the 2004 Democratic convention, at what’s now the TD Garden. Boston had always welcomed him, as well as the first lady when she was at Harvard Law School.