This is the one you're thinking of. Look at this particular blog for more info about it.
There is a photo online of Obama, December 1969, with a classmate in a classroom in Hawaii. It is 3rd grade. He would have been 8 yrs old.
He has his arm around a little boy who looks Japanese. The date and names are handwritten along the bottom of the photo. I think it was found by the other boy’s Mom and put into the public domain.
This photo disputes the timeline that is given in every article I read.
Please see my comment, #35, about that photo. It’s really very likely Barry was merely visiting his grandparents for Christmas and stopped by the school to say to old classmates.
He made no particular mention in his book of a 1969 visit to Hawaii, but that’s hardly unusual. I’d classify it as one of his typical lies of omission - like his trip to Paahkeestaahn and other countries just after his move to New York City to attend Columbia.
Most of what we know about his life and history is not because what’s in “Dreams From My Father” - it’s because people have researched, dug, picked up clues - and dug some more. And most of what’s been discovered falls into the category of Barry’s lies of omission - which, relative to him, in reality constitutes deliberate lies of deception. He’s a faker and a fraud.