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HONOLULU - DEMOCRATIC Governor Neil Abercrombie wants to find a way to release more information about President Barack Obama's Hawaii birth and dispel conspiracy theories that he was born elsewhere.
Mr Abercrombie was a friend of Mr Obama's parents and knew him as a child, and is deeply troubled by the effort to cast doubt on the president's citizenship.
The newly elected governor will ask the state attorney general's office and health officials about how he can make public more of Mr Obama's birth documentation from Aug 4, 1961, spokesman Donalyn Dela Cruz said Tuesday.
'He had a friendship with Mr Obama's parents, and so there is a personal issue at hand,' Ms Dela Cruz said. 'Is it going to be done immediately? No, the first thing on our list is the economy.'
It's unclear what Mr Abercrombie could do because Hawaii's privacy laws have long barred the release of a certified birth certificate to anyone who doesn't have a tangible interest.
Hawaii's health director said last year and in 2008 that she had seen and verified Mr Obama's original vital records, and birth notices in two Honolulu newspapers were published within days of Mr Obama's birth at Kapiolani Maternity and Gynecological Hospital in Honolulu. -- AP
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