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The Obama Presidential Center will open soon. Here's a sneak peek

NPR | By Tamara Keith

Published June 4, 2026 at 4:42 AM EDT

The Obama Presidential Center opens later this month. NPR got a preview.

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Tamara Keith

Tamara Keith has been a White House correspondent for NPR since 2014 and co-hosts the NPR Politics Podcast, the top political news podcast in America. Keith has chronicled the Trump administration from day one, putting this unorthodox presidency in context for NPR listeners, from early morning tweets to executive orders and investigations. She covered the final two years of the Obama presidency, and during the 2016 presidential campaign she was assigned to cover Hillary Clinton. In 2018, Keith was elected to serve on the board of the White House Correspondents' Association.

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