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Presidential candidate John McCain was not born in the United States but in the Panama Canal Zone. President Chester Arthur swore he was born in Vermont but his political opponents called him Canadian. NBC's Pete Williams examined the clause in the Constitution that required a President to be a "natural born citizen" before admitting that "the Supreme Court has never said exactly what that means." So is the current President "natural born"? Williams showed us an official document from the State of Hawaii verifying his birth in that state in 1961 and the simultaneous birth announcement published in The Honolulu Advertiser. "Legal scholars, liberal and conservative alike, are in widespread agreement that Barack Obama is fully qualified."
So why was Williams assigned to cover this apparent non-controversy? "A lot of us live with this issue. We get e-mails. We get asked about it," NBC anchor Brian Williams explained. "Members of Congress say they hear this question too," NBC's Pete Williams added. "It has not gone away becoming a staple of blogs and conservative talkradio."
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