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The first time Steve Kroft went to Barack Obama's house to interview him two weeks before his presidential campaign kickoff, Obama's daughter Sasha answered the door.

Don't expect that to ever happen again. Life has changed dramatically for the Obama family, as Kroft learned Friday in Chicago when he conducted the first postelection interview with Obama. It was for Sunday's "60 Minutes" on CBS.

The interview was a major coup for Kroft, who's marking his 20th year with the CBS News program in the middle of the year's biggest stories _ the presidential campaign and the economic crisis.

Kroft was backstage with Obama when the Democrat accepted his party's nomination ...

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