Obama family awed by 'cool' underground cave in New Mexico [View all]
Source: Associated Press
Obama family awed by 'cool' underground cave in New Mexico
10:55pm
Associated Press
Eyes wide open and head tilted upward, President Barack Obama appeared awed today as he toured an underground cave at a national park in New Mexico - part of a family vacation that's also designed to draw attention to America's natural wonders.
Obama, his wife, Michelle, and their daughters, Malia and Sasha, spent part of the afternoon at Carlsbad Caverns National Park, one of two national parks the First Family is scheduled to visit on a long Father's Day weekend away from Washington.
"How cool is this?" Obama exclaimed as a National Park Service employee led the family on a tour of the Big Room, an area nearly 243 metres deep into the limestone cavern that nature carved out of the Guadalupe Mountains.
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Coming at the end of a difficult week, the trip gives Obama an opportunity to tout his record on open-space preservation and promote administration programs aimed at boosting foot traffic through the more than 400 sites in a national park system that turns 100 in August.
Read more: https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/world/obama-family-awed-cool-underground-cave-in-new-mexico
(Short video at link.)
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