A postcard Obama sent while on vacation in Paris in 1988

“[…] I wander around Paris, the most beautiful, alluring, maddening city I’ve ever seen,” he writes to Cynthia Norris, the director of the Chicago Archdiocese’s black Catholics office at the time. “[O]ne is tempted to chuck the whole organising/political business and be a painter on the banks of the Siene [sic].”