"When the briefing was over, I went over to the President-elect and said: You know, that’s got to be the worst briefing that a President-elect has had, at least since 1932, and maybe since Abraham Lincoln in 1860. And the President says: Goolsby, that’s not even my worst briefing this week."

— Austan Goolsby recollects Obama’s first days in Office (via kateoplis)