Over lunch with a small group in Milwaukee, President Obama on Thursday said he plans to stay in Washington D.C. for a couple of years after his presidency so that his youngest daughter can finish high school.
It has long been speculated that the first family might stay in Washington after Obama leaves the White House. The president, though, made it sound as if it were a done deal.
Someone at the table asked where he and the first lady would live after he was done with the presidency.
"We haven't figured that out yet," he said. "We're going to have to stay a couple of years so Sasha can finish" school, he said. "Transferring someone in the middle of high school — tough."
Obama, perhaps realizing that he had made news, then shooed the press pool out. "Thanks guys," he said. "Get out of here."
Obama speculated in a 2013 interview with Barbara Walters of ABC News, that he and his family might live in Washington beyond their time in the White House to allow Sasha to graduate from Sidwell Friends School. Sasha will be a high school sophomore at the end of the president's second term. Obama told Walters, "Sasha will have a big say in where we are."
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