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...backgrounds, that we invited girls from public schools, from parochial schools, kids from private schools, and that they're all sitting around the table as equals in this place, where they all felt some level of intimidation, right, so the playing field was relatively equal, it was a beautiful night...
...those girls in the room with you that night - you know, a half hour in the room with you as First Lady - that potentially changes everything. I can only hope, right? You know, that's what I hope. That's what we all hope. But, you know, just to back it up, the goal is to keep being there, just keep doing that again and again and again so that it's not just one time. I don't want it to be just one time for this small group of kids. If I could divide myself...
...normal that Alicia Keyes came for dinner. [Laughter.] Because they were there that night, right? Yes. Yes. It becomes "normal." But they're not going down to dinner all the time, meeting people, either. That becomes as much of a special occasion for them as it is for any other girl, because they're not ... if they had something to do, they might have missed that event. So we really keep it very separate...
...telling you the obvious - and on and on and on. It's been all of their lives that it's rare to have Dad at home for dinner, to see him in the mornings before you go to school, to have him there when you go to bed at night, to just be able to have the casual conversations that happen about life at dinnertime...
...husband's even before she colored the fountains green for St. Patrick's Day, or mixed the Truman china with the World's Fair glasses at a state dinner, or installed beehives on the South Lawn, or turned the East Room into a jazz lounge for a night or sacrificed her first sock to the First Puppy. Of all the revelations of her first 100 days, the most striking was that she made it seem natural. She did not spend decades dreaming of this destination, and maybe that's the secret. "I'm not supposed to be here," she says...