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CNN's Fareed Zakaria reveals surprising person who wouldn't talk for 'Legacy of Barack Obama'
With President Barack Obama's term winding down, CNN's Fareed Zakaria approached White House staffers several months ago to propose a documentary assessing the president's legacy, and eventually the president came around.
"I was able to convince them that it would be a serious and substantive look. Obviously they had no idea how it would come out, favorable or not," Zakaria told TheWrap about "The Legacy of Barack Obama," airing tonight on CNN. "What appealed to [Obama] was the idea that this would be kind of a first draft of history."
Zakaria said that Obama is "very aware of history and the way in which history is shaped, the way in which people are remembered" and will go down as "one of the most intellectually-minded presidents" we've ever had.
The Obama administration cooperated and Zakaria sat down with the president in September for a two-hour interview that touched on everything from ISIS to Obamacare.
