As a teen, Barack Obama anticipated that his grandparents would be permissive when he returned to living with them. "They'd leave me alone so long as I kept my trouble out of sight," he wrote in ...

after Barack Obama's mother remarried a man named Lolo Soetoro, the family moved to Indonesia, but in 1971 Barack moved back ...

In a speech in his home city of Chicago, President Obama says "strong ... who gave everything she had to raise me with the help of grandparents I turned out OK," he continued.

Remember the crucial passage of Barack Obama’s Oration for the ... or when the school principal told me I was cool.” So, Obama’s grandmother, the most level-headed member of the family, ...