They said if I liked my name, I could keep it...
Last week at the White House, Obama awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to more than a dozen recipients, including Oprah Winfrey.
He noted that early in the actress and media mogul’s career, her bosses told her that she should change her name to Susie.
“I have to pause here to say I got the same advice,” Obama said. “They didn’t say I should be named ‘Susie,’ but they suggested I should change my name.
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