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Tear down the house that Obama lived in as a child in Hawaii?

Opponents lined up quickly when Honolulu Christian Church announced plans to convert a modest residential lot in the Hawaiian capital into parking for its growing congregation.

Surely there were enough spots on the street, opponents said. Turning the small driveway into a parking lot entrance would create safety and traffic problems. The cute old house on the property, built in the 1940s, is worth preserving.

Besides, the president used to live there.

“We didn’t know he had any connection to the property at all,” said Don Hirata, the administrator for the English-speaking programs at Honolulu Christian, which also offers services in Japanese. “We didn’t buy the property because we knew he lived there.”

President Obama, who was born in Honolulu in 1961, lived in the house in Honolulu’s Manoa Valley neighborhood for about three years in the mid-1960s with his mother and grandparents.
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