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Artifact 13: Portrait of a Future President
As a state senator, Obama hung two pictures in his Springfield office that said a lot about the man he was, and who he wanted to become.
October 4, 2012
Artifact 12: Letters From Romney's Mission to France
At age 19, Mitt Romney set out for France to begin 30 months of missionary work for the Mormon church. Each day, he would wake at 6 a.m., eat breakfast, study his bible, and then go door-to-door looking to win over converts.
October 3, 2012
Artifact 11: Obama's Early Impressions of Chicago
In this rarely seen letter, written while he was a community organizer in Chicago, Obama is still very much the writer, scribbling eloquent descriptions of his new hometown on yellow legal paper.
October 3, 2012
Artifact 10: Mitt Romney's Olympic Pins
By 1999, following a crushing defeat in his bid to take the Senate seat of Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.) almost five years earlier, Mitt Romney felt he had only one option left to remain in public life: becoming the CEO of the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Olympic Games.
October 1, 2012
Artifact Nine: Obama's Big Political Play
Obama learned from his first big loss to Bobby Rush. Before he launched his next political campaign, he engaged in some political maneuvering that would allow him to run for, and win, a seat in the U.S. Senate.
October 1, 2012
Lessons & Losses: A Discussion of Week Two's Artifacts
We released four more "Artifacts of Character" this week, looking back at Mitt Romney and Barack Obama's early debates -- and losses, and at the lessons they taught others. Now, a small group of the country's leading journalists covering the candidates weigh in on this week's artifacts.
September 28, 2012