President Barack Obama tells 60 Minutes what he was thinking about as his helicopter departed from President Trump’s inauguration.
Maria Gavrilovic was once the self-described “new girl” at CBS when her bosses assigned her to report on the presidential campaign of a 46-year-old senator named Barack Obama. It was September 2007, and Gavrilovic was one of only a handful of reporters traveling with the long-shot candidate as he barnstormed the nation in a sprint to win votes and dethrone Hillary Clinton as the frontrunner for the Democratic presidential nomination. Gavrilovic initially thought the role would amount to a few months on the road. Then Mr. Obama notched a victory in Iowa’s first in the nation caucus. It propelled him ahead of Clinton and the rest of the Democratic field. “No one expected that he was going go as far as he did,” Gavrilovic said to 60 Minutes Overtime. “I thought I was going be covering the campaign for a couple of months. I went out on the road in September of 2007 and I didn’t come back home until November of 2008.” Gavrilovic began working for 60 Minutes shortly after the 2008 election. She has helped produce more than a dozen interviews Mr. Obama has done with 60 Minutes, including the most recent one conducted by correspondent Scott Pelley.
