article_snippet: A controversy during Obama 2008 campaign for president, and again, albeit to a lesser extent, in Obama 2012 bid for re-election, was a rumor that Obama the younger was not born in Hawaii as stated and was instead born in Kenya.
article_snippet: The charge stems, in part, from a 'fact-checking error' a literary agent made in materials promoting Obama in 1991.
article_snippet: The booklet, produced by agency Acton & Dystel stated that Obama was 'born in Kenya and raised in Indonesia and Hawaii.'
article_snippet: The editor of the text, Miriam Goderich, took credit for the mistake in 2012, telling Yahoo News, 'There was never any information given to us by Obama in any of his correspondence or other communications suggesting in any way that his was born in Kenya and not Hawaii.'
article_snippet: Some 'birthers' as Some ' are known as continue to believe that Obama was not born in the United States, however, and is therefore ineligible to be president based on constitutional requirements for the office.
article_snippet: memoir Dreams from The president's father.
highlights_snippet: The son of a Kenyan native, rumors have persisted for years that Obama Obama was not actually born in the U.S.
  