The Author (Barack Obama) start talking about the colonnade that was a little more than a path to the horse stable and how Teddy Roosevelt wants to make a change or lest say he want to make a construction that is going to be the west wing and the oval office. Obama Take a walk several times a week just to see the employees at the Rose Garden that were mostly older men dressed in green khaki uniforms with a floppy hat to bock the sun. They were man of few words but each one was focus on their own task. He mentioned that he didn’t came from a political family, his Grandma that was a vice president of escrow at one of the local banks, wants him to be a well-informed citizen, He also speak about his mother having strong opinion and how she rebelled at high school. Then he (Obama)  start talking about his life being a teenager.