President Barack Obama fist-bumps custodian Lawrence Lipscomb in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building following the opening session of the White House Forum on Jobs and Economic Growth, Dec. 3, 2009.

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• Scott was the person who chose to use the Gotham typeface as seen in all the “change” and “hope” material as seen below. John McCain’s campaign used the same typeface that’s on the Vietnam War Memorial. Gotham represented stability and a fresh start.
• Over 46 revisions were done before Barack Obama’s website design was finalized
• It was near impossible to contact Scott during the campaign via email. He would tell others to send multiple emails. He told his personal circle to just call him (also often repeatedly)
• Many people would come out of the woodwork to request one-off things like tattoo designs and the like. “We’re trying to win an election and you want a tattoo design?”
• Scott was not as heavily involved in the whitehouse.gov redesign,  although it looks the same

A list of some major news outlets’ coverage of Barack Obama’s Presidential win. These shots are all circa 1:00AM EST on the morning of November 5, 2008. A couple have been modified to reduce height.

The New York Times 

MSNBC 

CNN 

The Chicago Tribune 

Guardian (U.K.) 

The Washington Post 

National Public Radio (NPR) 

Fox News 

The L.A. Times 

CBS News