FIRST - African-American President of the United States - Orlando, FL
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Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum has an exhibit featuring Barack Obama. A sign on the wall identifies him as the first African-America president. The museum is located at the ICON Orlando building at 8401 International Dr., Orlando, FL.
Waymark Code: WM1062G
Location: Florida, United States
Date Posted: 03/05/2019
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A room in the Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum contains a life-like wax figure of the 44th President of the United States, Barack Obama, wearing a dark suit and blue tie while standing in the Washington DC Mall with the Washington Monument in the background. A sign on the wall gives biographical details of the life of Barack Obama. The sign is inscribed:
Barack Obama
"Change will not come if we wait for some
other person or some other time. We are the
ones we've been waiting for. We are the
change that we seek"
• Obama is currently serving his second term as president, he is the
44th president and the first African-American to be elected to the role
• Before beginning his political career, Obama was a civil rights lawyer
and taught law at the University of Chicago
• Obama has won two GRAMMY® awards! Both are audio versions
of his best-selling books, Dreams From My Father (1995) and The
Audacity of Hope (2006)
Born Barack Hussein Obama on August 4, 1961 in Hawaii
Portrayed from 2014
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Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum is part of ICON Orlando complex which contains Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum, the large ICON Orlando Ferris wheel, and the Sea Life Aquarium.
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