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Root graduated as Valedictorian from his high school, Thornton-Donovan School, then graduated from Columbia University in 1983 as a Political Science major. This would place him in the same graduating class as President Barack Obama.[5] Root has stated that he has no recollection of having met or seen Obama at Columbia.[5][6]

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When the Israeli left-wing newspaper Am Ha’aretz wanted to write a puff piece of fellow leftist Obama’s trip to Israel, here’s what they found:

http://www.haaretz.com/weekend/week-s-end/obama-s-israeli-columbia-classmates-don-t-recall-the-young-president.premium-1.509648

U.S. President Barack Obama, due here for his first official visit next week, graduated college in 1983; yet, none of the 25 or so alumni of his class who are now living in Israel remember laying eyes on him...