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...matter who you are. If I went out there once in a while, I think there would be a ton of excitement because everybody feels like, Well, this is the opportunity. But if people know I'm out there every Saturday, what you get is more of the normal kind of - I'm sitting down, somebody may come over and sit and we strike up a conversation. There isn't a frenzy because, you know, you're out there with everybody else...
...ultimate role models too, which would be an enormous burden to ... except it sort of comes with the fact that they are the most ... they are the children in the world that people are most interested in. So how do you help them walk the line of normal vs. the position they're in? We stay 100% in their world all the time. And I don't know if you understand that, but their lives are very disconnected from this. And it's ... you can do that with kids when they're young because they just don't care. [Laughter...
...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...
...they can. They're free to ... they're free to walk in. They're welcome wherever they want to go around here - and anytime. But they don't always care to be bothered with seeing him, because they see him all the time. That's been terrific. It's normal. It's more normal than we've had for a very long time...
...Winning the presidency was the ticket to at least one kind of normality. "Among the many wonderful things about being President," Barack tells TIME, "the best is that I get to live above the office and see Michelle and the kids every day. I see them in the morning. We have dinner every night. It is the thing that sustains me." The President refers to what he calls "Michelle time," when he takes a break during the day and retreats to the residence. Semiregularly, Michelle appears in the West Wing with the dog or their daughters for a brief...