Obama had a Dutch nanny

US president elect Barack Obama had a Dutch nanny as a child, reports the AD newspaper. Ans Michels looked after four-year-old ‘Barry’ for eight months on the Hawaian island of Oahu in the 1960s, the paper says.


The US president elect was ‘a really nice boy’ and ‘a brave little lad’, Michels, now 63, told the AD.

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