Here are a few clips from our preparation for the YouTube interview we did with President Obama on Monday, February 1st, 2009. We started our preparation in Davos during the World Economic Forum, where we were working on the Davos Debates (youtube.com/davos). When we heard the President had accepted the request for the interview, we had to get started right away and then fly back to DC for the taping.\n\nHere\'s the interview itself: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pqzNJYzh7I\n\nWe weren\'t allowed to film any behind the scenes footage from inside the White House, but you\'ll see here some footage of our practice and prep. The quip about the brown socks at the end is referencing the fact that Steve neglected to color code properly, and then exposed his brown sox during the interview, which drew some comments from viewers on YouTube.\n\nFeatured here are Steve Grove, Olivia Ma, Ramya Raghavan, and Aaron Zamost from YouTube, and Ginny Hunt who leads the Google Moderator team.\n\nYou can follow us on @citizentube, @grove, @oliviama, and @ramchopps

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