The FRONTLINE Interview: Sohale Siddiqi

Obama's roommate saw a distinct change in his friend while they lived together in NYC. More

He met Obama at a New Year's Eve party in San Francisco, while Obama was attending Occidental College, and the two men later became roommates in New York. "I saw a transformation in the Barry I had met in Occidental," Siddiqi recalls about Obama's New York years. "He got very serious and less lighthearted, and our conversations were more about serious things."

AIR DATE 10/8/08