Could it be? Almost two years?

 

On Nov. 5, 2008, this front page story in the Arizona Daily Star quoted Henry Louis Gates.

  

Barack Obama's message -- "While we breathe, we hope" -- lifted him into history.  He is the first African-American and, at 47, the first of his generation to win the presidency.  The Democrat's victory Tuesday, said Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr., rivaled the day in 1862 when President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, and the day 101 years later when Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech.  "There's never been been a moment like this in our lifetime, ever," said Gates.  Obama, who must lead the nation through economic strife and two wars, promised, "In this defining moment, change has come to America."

 

What an odd coincidence it is, in retrospect, that both Arizona and Gates himself would later garner headlines of their own, both having to do with their relationships to this president.