- OBAMA
- Bush 43's successor
- The first bill he signed into law was the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act
- Let's Move! pioneer Michelle
- {/Becoming/} author Michelle
- Frequent target of Fox News
- He's codenamed Renegade
- We're out of ketchup. Thanks, ___!
- President pushing both Sharia law and the gay agenda, according to some
- Recent guest on "Between Two Ferns"
- Man who wasn't president during Hurricane Katrina, but did meet with victims
- Recent Sweet Sixteen celebrant Sasha
- Dreams From My Father audiobook narrator
- Trump claims he never considered revoking this person's security clearance, but come on, you know he wanted to
- Thanks ___!
- His high school clique was the Choom Gang
- Politico with the slogan "Forward"
- Subject of the Shepard Fairey screenprint "Hope"
- Her autobiography is "Becoming"
- The Crimson Tide, familiarly
- 2020 Best Spoken Word Album winner
- President with a Netflix deal
- Clinton competitor
- The Audacity of Hope author
- Campaigner from Illinois
- Senator Barack
- Hawaiian-born POTUS
- President born furthest from Washington, D.C.
- President born furthest from D.C.
- @POTUS, on Twitter
- 2009 Nobel Prize winner
- Onetime Clinton opponent
- 2009 Peace Nobelist
- Becoming memoirist Michelle
- President who said "The future rewards those who press on"
- Dreams From My Father memoirist
- Former lecturer at the University of Chicago Law School
- Person often sarcastically thanked
- Prosperity without freedom is just another form of poverty speaker
- In a 2010 interview, George W. Bush said that he's "got plenty of critics, and I'm not going to be one"
- In 1991, he said, "I may not be Donald Trump now, but just you wait; if I don't make it, my children will"
- Keynoter at the 2004 Democratic Convention
- Clinton defeater and appointer
- First US president born in Hawaii
- Fourth president to win a Nobel Prize
- His Secret Service code name is "Renegade"
- President who appeared on "Between Two Ferns"
- Two-time Grammy winner in the White House
- Presidential hopeful Barack
- Rival of Clinton
- Rival of Clinton and Edwards
- Senator from Illinois
- Senator who wrote "The Audacity of Hope"
- Clinton rival
- Presidential candidate and author of "The Audacity of Hope"
- Surname in 2008 political headlines
- Surname on a 2008 ballot
- 44th U.S. President
- 44th in America
- Biden's 2008 running mate
- The 44th president
- Time's Man of the Year for 2008
- Dreams From My Father novelist
- 2009 Peace Prize Nobelist
- Biden's boss
- He defeated McCain
- November 2008 winner
- Only president born in Hawaii
- President who was a Harvard Law Review president
- Stimulus packager?
- Foe of the Tea Party
- Hawaiian-born President
- Time's 2008 Person of the Year
- Name above Biden on bumper stickers
- One of two presidents with two Ivy League degrees
- Only president to graduate from Columbia University
- President born in Hawaii
- President born in Honolulu
- Half of a winning team in 2012
- Malia or Sasha
- Michelle with a "Let's Move" campaign
- One of two US presidents to win a Nobel Prize and a Grammy award
- One of two presidents graduated from Harvard Law School
- Renegade" with Secret Service protection
- 2009 Nobel Peace Prize recipient
- First First Lady to announce the Best Picture winner at an Academy Awards ceremony
- Michelle Robinson's marital surname
- Let us reach for the world that ought to be. (2009)
- The last sitting senator to be elected president
- Frequent recipient of sarcastic thanks-giving
- Michelle who spoke at Black Girls Rock! this year
- 2004 Democratic convention keynoter
- 2008 candidate Barack
- Clinton opponent
- Illinois senator Barack
- Illinois senator Barack __
- Junior Illinois senator Barack __
- Clinton defeater
- He serves the same state as Senator Durbin
- His second book is subtitled "Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream"
- McCain's opponent
- 2004 Democratic keynoter
- 44th president
- McCain beater
- McCain defeater
- November 2008 Senate resignee
- President with a Grammy
- Time's Person of the Year 2008
- Bush successor
- Controversial 2009 Nobelist
- He bested Clinton in 2008
- President with two Grammys
- 2008 "Yes We Can" sloganeer
- Clinton's boss
- President who appointed Kagan to the Supreme Court
- Romney foe
- President who appointed Sotomayor to the Supreme Court
- President who wrote the 41-Down quote
- President with a B.A. from Columbia
- 2012 Romney defeater
- Honolulu-born president
- Only U.S. president born in Hawaii
- Justice Kagan appointer
- Let's Move! campaign launcher Michelle
- Former Illinois senator
- President with degrees from Columbia and Harvard
- Trump predecessor
- Bush 43 successor
- First president with a Twitter account
- President between Bush and Trump
- President who appointed two women to the Supreme Court
- 21st-century president with a Nobel Peace Prize
- President who appointed Justice Kagan
- Michelle who wrote "Becoming"
- Becoming memoirist
- Surname of Bo and Sunny
- The Light We Carry writer Michelle
- Yes we can sloganeer of 2008
- First president born after 1960
- Only U.S. president born in 30-Down
- Start to care?
- Illinois senator
- '08 debate regular
- 2008 presidential candidate
- Illinoisan in the news
- Kagan's appointer
- President from 2009-2017
- Recent White House retiree
- Biden boss
- Appointer of Justice Kagan
- Presidential winner in 2008
- Dreams from My Father author
- Two-time Best Spoken Word Album Grammy winner
- 2009 Peace Prize recipient
- Joe Biden's boss
- Only Indonesian-speaking President
- Sotomayor selector
- Sotomayor's selector
- Victor of 2008
- Time Person of the Year for 2012
- 2012 victor
- Grammy-winning president
- Honorary Chairman of the USO
- Last State of the Union deliverer
- Dodd-Frank signer
- First president on Twitter
- Kagan appointer
- Sotomayor appointer
- Yes we can sloganeer
- 2016 Havana visitor
- Honolulu-born leader
- Only Columbia grad to become President
- Two-Grammy president
- President in 2015
- Author of Amazon's top book of 2018
- Barack or Michelle
- President born in the '60s
- See 10 Down
- Time's 2012 Person of the Year
- Former USO Honorary Chairman
- Profile in Courage Award recipient (2017)
- See 28 Down
- Time Person of the Year before Bernanke
- Half a 2008 ticket
- Two presidents ago
- First Lady who penned "Becoming" (2018)
- Former honorary USO chairman
- Springsteen collaborator on a 2021 book
- Biden was his vice president
- Either of two authors of 2020s autobio best-sellers
- He selected Justice Sotomayor
- Inaugural address orator of 2009
- Michelle or Barack
- Peace Nobelist of 2009
- President 10 years ago
- President after Bush 43
- Illinois's junior senator
- Author of "Dreams From My Father"
- Author of "The Audacity of Hope"
- He announced Biden as his running mate with a text message
- See 25-Across
- Senator who wrote "Dreams From My Father"
- Dreams From My Father writer
- Future senator who delivered the 2004 Democratic convention keynote address
- Politician who wrote "The Audacity of Hope"
- Presidential candidate born in Hawaii
- Winner of 2008
- President born on August 4, whose name can be found backward in 17-, 31-, 47- and 63-Across
- President sworn in on Lincoln's Bible
- First president born in Hawaii
- First president not born in the continental U.S.
- First president whose name ends in a vowel other than E or Y
- Michelle Robinson, now
- See 50-Down
- Noted 1991 Harvard Law grad
- One code-named Renegade by the Secret Service
- President who won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize
- President whose first name means "one who is blessed"
- U.S. president whose mother's first name was Stanley
- Michelle with the best-selling memoir "Becoming"
- Politician with the campaign slogan 30-Across
- America's 44th
- Illinois senator who became president
- Quayle : Bush :: Biden : ___
- 2008 candidate with the slogan "Change we can believe in"
- Harvard Law Review editor who went on to become president
- Illinois senator-turned-president
- One of only two presidents with two Ivy League degrees
- President whose initials "stink"
- President with a Nobel Prize
- Time's Person of the Year for 2008 and 2012
- Time's second African-American Person of the Year
- Winner of the 2005 and 2007 Grammys for Best Spoken Word Album
- First president born outside the continental U.S.
- No drama president
- Fourth U.S. president to win a Nobel Peace Prize
- Lead-in to care since 2009
- Only U.S. president whose surname is more than 50% vowels
- President born Aug. 4, 1961
- Michelle in the White House
- Noted 1983 graduate of Columbia
- President who ended "don't ask, don't tell"
- Appointer of Sotomayor and Kagan to the Supreme Court
- He said "What Washington needs is adult supervision"
- Only president born outside the continental United States
- President whose initials were also his dog's name
- 44
- President elected with the slogan "Yes we can"
- U.S. president with the most southerly birthplace
- Winner of two Grammys and a Nobel Peace Prize
- 2009 Nobel laureate
- Author of the 2018 best seller "Becoming"
- Michelle with the 2018 hit memoir "Becoming"
- President with the same first and last name as his father
- A Promised Land memoirist
- See 1-Down
- Two-time Time magazine Person of the Year
- U.S. president who was once president of the Harvard Law Review
- I would have voted for ___ for a third term if I could ("Get Out" line)
- A Promised Land author, 2020
- 2010s White House family name
- Barack, Michelle, Sasha or Malia
- Who nominated Sotomayor and Kagan to the Supreme Court
- Thanks, ___ (catchphrase of the 2010s)
- Election victor of 2008 and 2012
- Subject of a Kehinde Wiley portrait in the National Portrait Gallery
- Who said "Issues are never simple. One thing I'm proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify the issues"
- With 23-Across, period that began in January 2009
- With Springsteen, co-host of the podcast "Renegades: Born in the USA"
- With 45-Across, presidential period from 2009-17
- With 64-Across, source of inspiration for this puzzle's theme
- Dreams of My Father memoirist
- He really, really wasn't born in Kenya, yeesh
- 2004 Democratic National Convention keynote speaker
- Successor of Bush
- Hawaii-born U.S. president
- He defeated Romney
- Hawaii-born president
- Romney's 2012 rival
- 2012 rival of Romney
- First lady Michelle
- Statesman Barack
- A Promised Land author
- Author of the memoir "Becoming"
- Author and former First Lady Michelle
- Former President who wrote "The Audacity of Hope"
- Recipient of the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize
- Clinton's competitor
- President who once lived in Indonesia
- 2017 farewell speech maker
- Former First Lady Michelle
- Sasha or Malia
- American Grown author Michelle
- The Michelle ___ Podcast
- Former president who gave a virtual commencement speech in 2020
- Michelle who led the Let's Move! campaign
- President No. 44
- Waffles + Mochi host Michelle
- The Light We Carry author Michelle
- He ran with Biden
- First lady behind the "Let's Move!" campaign
- President in 2014's Tan Suit Gate
- First U.S. president born after 1946
- President who held a widely upvoted Reddit AMA in 2012
- Illinois junior senator
- Primary consideration?
- Senator known for hope
- Forty-fourth president
- Name in the White House
- Bo's master
- Appointer of Sotomayor
- President born farthest from D.C.
- President with a Nobel
- President with a dog named Bo
- Appointer of Kagan and Sotomayor
- McCain's 2008 opponent
- Let's Move! leader Michelle
- Sasha and Malia's surname
- Michelle who said, "The future of our world is only as bright as the future of our girls"
- Michelle who said, "Success isn't about how your life looks to others. It's about how it feels to you"
- 2008 race name
- See 49-Across
- 2009 Nobel Peace Prize winner
- Surname of Bo the Portuguese water dog's family
- Port north of Kyoto
- He tweets under the handle @POTUS
- The Audacity of Hope writer
- First president to travel above the Arctic Circle
- His presidential library is planned for Chicago
- Keynote speaker at the 2004 Democratic National Convention
- His library will be hosted by the University of Chicago
- Only president born in the 1960s
- President with two Grammys and a Nobel Prize
- Sotomayor's appointer
- Of Thee I Sing: A Letter to My Daughters writer
- Becoming writer Michelle
- Becoming author
- Bush follower
- Namesake of a future Chicago library
- He appointed Sotomayor and Kagan to the Supreme Court
- Biden's boss, once
- Keynote deliverer at the 2004 Democratic National Convention
- Signer of the Don't Ask, Don't Tell Repeal Act
