After mopping kitchen and bathroom floors in the home of 86-year-old John Thornton in East Oakland, Calif., with health care worker Pauline Beck, Obama told reporters, "I'm not going to lie to you. It's been awhile" (Chicago Tribune, 8/9/2008).
Obama used the experience, which was attended by a television crew and photographers, to highlight the importance of home health care workers and promote benefits including paid sick leave and vacation for service workers -- neither of which Beck receives, according to the AP/Houston Chronicle (AP/Houston Chronicle, 8/9/2008).
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Wednesday, February 11, 2009
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