Connelly writes, "Pictures of Century '21, the 1962 Seattle World's Fair, show visits by America's political exiles of the time -- Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon -- but not the President who was handling a nuclear confrontation with the Soviet Union."  

The Seattle Times reports, "His current project actually is a rerun of something Toth dreamed up and hustled 50 years ago. He sold 487,000 of these babies."  

David Maraniss writes in Vanity Fair, "At age 20, Obama was a man of the world."  

Experts say that even in a digitized age, there may be something especially powerful about being able to ask questions and interact with eyewitnesses to historic events.