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Obama on watching 'The Butler' - 'I did tear up'


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WASHINGTON | Tue Aug 27, 2013 5:24pm EDT

(Reuters) - President Barack Obama says he teared up watching a movie about an African-American man who served for 34 years at the White House during the tumultuous time of the civil rights movement.

Lee Daniels' "The Butler" is a hit movie starring Forest Whitaker in the lead role, which is loosely based on the real life of Eugene Allen, who served presidents from Harry Truman to Ronald Reagan. Oprah Winfrey plays the butler's hard-drinking wife and Cuba Gooding Jr. is a friend and White House colleague.

"You know, I did see 'The Butler,' and I did tear up," Obama told syndicated radio hosts Tom Joyner and Sybil Wilkes in an interview broadcast on Tuesday, a day before he speaks at the 50th anniversary of the civil rights movement's "March on Washington."

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Obama, the first U.S. African-American president, says he has a special bond with the employees who take care of the executive mansion.

"I think for them to have a sense that we've come that far was a powerful moment for them, and certainly a powerful moment for us. We love them to death. They look after us just wonderfully," he said.

(Reporting By Steve Holland; Editing by Eric Walsh)

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