doi:10.7916/aqxc-0821Oral history interview with James "Jim" H. Houser Jr. and Helen M. Dally, 2022Houser, Jimoral historiesmixed materialPresidents--United StatesHealth care reform--United StatesMedical care, Cost of--United StatesSmall business--OregonGlobal Financial Crisis, 2008-2009--United StatesUnited States Foreign relations CubaCuba Foreign relations United StatesHouser, JimDally, HelenObama, BarackOregon Health AuthorityCover Oregon (Organization)United StatesPatient Protection and Affordable Care ActJim Houser and his daughter, Helen Dally, reflect on their experience of the years of the Obama presidency, discuss their advocacy for healthcare reform, and remember their encounters with the Obama administration, including their attendance at the 2011 State of the Union address as guests of the first lady. Houser and his wife, Liz Dally, founded the Hawthorne Auto Clinic in Portland, Oregon in 1983, and Houser outlines their management of the shop and the burden of rising healthcare costs on their business during the years leading up to Obama's election in 2008. Houser describes his advocacy for healthcare reform both nationally and in Oregon, and he details his activities representing the interests of small businesses through the Main Street Alliance, in hearings with House and Senate subcommittees, in meetings of the Oregon Health Authority board, on the task force working on Oregon's health insurance marketplace (Cover Oregon), and on the Cover Oregon advisory committee. Houser also discusses his interactions with Obama administration officials, and shares memories of his meeting with President Obama at an event in support of the Affordable Care Act in Falls Church, Virginia, in 2011, and of the 2011 State of the Union, which Helen also attended. Also discussed are Houser and Dally's experience of the 2008 financial crisis and subsequent economic recession; the implementation of the Affordable Care Act; and Dally's work in support of the normalization of diplomatic relations with Cuba, including her involvement in the organization of Obama's first cultural delegation to Havana