The Sesame Street President

There is an interesting story in this week's edition of Time magazine about how President Barack Obama is the first U.S. president to be young enough to have grown up watching Sesame Street.

When Sesame Street founder Joan Ganz Cooney met Obama at a fundraiser last year, she was prepared to hear what she always does. "I'd have bet you a million dollars," she says, "that [Obama] would tell me how his kids watched Sesame Street." But instead the President-to-be told her that he and his little sister watched the show. "I realized that this is the first President young enough to say that."

And here's a video of Obama talking about Sesame Street: