Obama Says Leaving Malia at College Was ‘Like Open-Heart Surgery’<br />Malia, 19, took a gap year after high school and opted to attend Harvard this year, despite her father’s advice<br />that she could get a good education even if she did not attend “some name-brand, famous, fancy school.”<br />Both Mr. Obama and his wife, Michelle, attended law school at Harvard.<br />Mr. Obama has let the tears flow in public on a number of occasions, including when he spoke shortly after the death of his grandmother in November 2008; when he thanked his campaign staff after winning re-election in November 2012;<br />and during a speech about gun violence in January 2016<br />Mr. Biden introduced Mr. Obama at the Wilmington Country Club in Delaware on Monday, calling him a “great friend.”<br />Beau fought to protect the most vulnerable among us.<br />Barack Obama described that moment on Monday in a speech for the Beau Biden Foundation for the Protection of Children,<br />which was named for former Vice President Joseph R. Biden’s older son, who died of brain cancer in 2015.<br />The former president said some kind words about Beau<br />and his parents, Joe and Jill Biden, before talking about the joys and sorrows of watching children grow up.
