And they met in a Russian class at the East-West Centre:
from wiki -
On May 9, 1961, then U.S. Vice President Lyndon Johnson was a guest at groundbreaking ceremonies for the East-West Center’s first six buildings.[13] Five of the new buildings, designed by architect I. M. Pei, were built along the new East-West Road where a new 21-acre East-West Center campus just west of Manoa Stream on the east side of the university campus replaced chicken coops, temporary wooden buildings for faculty housing, and the Hawaii Agricultural Experiment Station.[14] A sixth building built under the federal grant for the East-West Center was Edmondson Hall, designed by architect Albin Kubala and built on McCarthy Mall.[15]
Four of the six buildings were completed and opened in September 1962: Edmondson Hall (a four-story building containing classrooms and laboratories), Kennedy Theatre (an 800-seat theatre), Hale Kuahine (a four-story women’s dormitory for 120 students), and Lincoln Hall (a four-story residence hall for senior scholars and faculty).[16] The other two buildings: Jefferson Hall (a four-story conference center, cafeteria, and administrative office building) and Hale Manoa (a 13-story men’s dormitory for 480 students) were completed and opened in September 1963...
So Fred, what amazing people these parents were that they could meet and attend classes in a building that had not even been built yet. Must have “super powers”!
And to BP2 at post #44:
Here is the beginning of a transcript of an interview that 0 gave on 8/9/1995 about his book,“Dreams”
http://eyeonbooks.com/obama_transcript.pdf
0: “My father is a black African, was a black African. My mother is a white American. He came to the States to study RIGHT AFTER the independence of Kenya and was part of that first wave of Africans to travel to the West in search of knowledge to bring back to post-independent Africa . . . They came together during the civil rights movement—although they weren’t active. I think they were swept up in the spirit of integrationist America and the dream of Dr. King, and the idealism and optimism of the Kennedys –and ended up separating shortly after. So the book is really me trying to understand what their lives were about and thereby understand what my life is about.”
We know that 0 Sr. was already in Hawaii in summer 1959 and according to your post “constitutional talks” for Kenya weren’t until 1961 and Kenya did not become independent until Dec. 1963. Tsk, tsk it is so bothersome that these real historical dates keep messing up 0’s wonderful little fairy tale.
Now we know why it took so long for he and Ayers to write the book. They were checking, dates, facts, etc. They should have taken longer, that book is full of discrepancies.