“I've been practicing. I bowled a 129, It was like special olympics or something.”

—  Barack Obama

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, asked by Mr. Leno if he had been practicing bowling in his Washington Office https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HOBTUCv4o0 (March 2009) "YouTube"
2009

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