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Just under two weeks after ABC’s Terry Moran took a fawning trip down memory lane longing for the days when he covered the 2008 Obama campaign, former NBC News correspondent and current CBS News Sunday Morning correspondent Lee Cowan followed suit as Sunday’s program featured an interview with President Obama (i.e. the man he once admitted made it hard to remain objective).
Host Charles Osgood set the scene by reminding viewers: “Eight years ago, candidate Barack Obama was campaigning for president and our Lee Cowan was covering it. Now, President Barack Obama has just under a year to go before leaving office and he was in reflective mood when Lee spoke with him in Detroit last Wednesday.”