[466] On April 5, Obama visited the White House for the first time since leaving office, in an event celebrating the 12th annual anniversary of the signing of the Affordable Care Act.[467][468][469] In June, it was announced that the Obamas and their podcast production company, Higher Ground, signed a multi-year deal with Audible.[470][471] In September, Obama visited the White House to unveil his and Michelle's official White House portraits.[472] Around the same time, he won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Narrator[473] for his narration in the Netflix documentary series Our Great National Parks.[474]

Legacy
Historian Julian Zelizer credits Obama with "a keen sense of how the institutions of government work and the ways that his team could design policy proposals."Zelizer notes Obama's policy successes included the economic stimulus package which ended the Great Recession and the Dodd-Frank financial and consumer protection reforms, as well as the Affordable Care Act. Zelizer also notes the Democratic Party lost power and numbers of elected officials during Obama's term, saying that the consensus among historians is that Obama "turned out to be a very effective policymaker but not a tremendously successful party builder."