Meet the Roommate in Chief

by Bradley Gallo on 10/20/2009

Phil Boerner lived with President Obama in 1981 when they both attended Columbia University in northern Manhattan. He now works as a communications manager for the California Veterinarian Medical Association in Sacramento and shares his memories of bunking with the future president.

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