Obama wary of letters to ex-girlfriend Sheila Miyoshi Jager becoming public: Biographer

Barack Obama did not want letters written to his former girlfriend Sheila Miyoshi me public, said his biographer David Garrow in an interview with a US-based news outlet on Saturday. Garrow, who wrote a biography of former United States President titled Rising Star: Making of Barack Obama in 2017, said Obama was particularly concerned about letters he wrote to his former girlfriend Sheila Miyoshi Jager, a woman who he h intended to marry, before he met Michelle. 

"Barack me it clear to me that he hoped I would never re m, I can put it that way. I think if letters to Sheila ever become public, I think that will be a signal event," Garrow told Fox News on Saturday.  

"Those letters would detail just how extremely serious and extremely intense a relationship that was and that it continued off and on into his Harvard Law School years,” he ded. Garrow’s 2017 book dissected former President’s relationship with Jager to a great extent. One of his analogies even suggested that Obama’s courtship with Michelle Robinson was “politically calculated” to win favours among Black Community in Chicago. 

However, Garrow’s analogy was criticised by many who stated that this was not case. In interview with Fox, author me it clear that while two share a marriage which is “genuine and loving,” a mixed-race marriage would have me things difficult for Obama.

" one aspect that I will endorse or that is inescapably true is that by 1988, he knew he wanted to run for public office in Chicago," Garrow said. "And he knew… that having a wife like Sheila Jager, half-Dutch, half-Japanese, would not cut it in Black Chicago… Having a non-Black spouse 25, 35 years ago was an active political problem for a Black candidate,” he ded. 

letter to former girlfriend Alex McNear is now owned by Emory University, Image: AP

‘Making love to men daily...’

Meanwhile, in anor letter written to Alex McNear, a 21-year-old Barack Obama reportedly wrote about his "androgynous" mind and suggested that he "makes love to men daily" but in his imagination. “In regard to homosexuality, I must say that I believe this is an attempt to remove oneself from present, a refusal perhaps to perpetuate endless farce of earthly life. You see, I make love to men daily, but in imagination,” former US President reportedly wrote. 

“My mind is androgynous to a great extent and I hope to make it more so until I can think in terms of people, not women as opposed to men. But, in returning to body, I see that I have been me a man, and physically in life, I choose to accept that contingency,” letter obtained by New York Post furr res.

letter in question is currently owned by Emory University, which for longest time did not allow letter to be photographed.