UPDATED 9:56 AM EST, January 19, 2013
WASHINGTON (AP) — Presidential terms are measured by sweeping laws and stirring events, but legacies are about enduring ideas. The one Barack Obama has in mind will drive most everything he tries to do in the next four years: assuring that America is a place where anyone can make it.
There is no moonshot here, no call to end tyranny in our time.
What Obama wants written in the first paragraph of history is that he helped deliver a better life for the people struggling in the richest nation on earth.
