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...trying to think of who would have been playing the role you're playing now when you were a child. Were there people? Did you imagine in public life there were people like you then? Or do you see what you're doing now as sort of a new thing? No, I don't. I don't think it's new. I mean, my mother said this in an interview and I completely agree with her, and it's something that, you know, I want young people to remember, is that, my mom said in this Essence article, Michelle...
...what's that about? It's just one place you can go where you're completely ... where you feel some level of freedom and an ability to breathe. I think every single First Lady felt that that was an important resource, an important opportunity, an important thing for the health of the family. And some found it later in their terms than others, because you get so busy. I mean, even ... you know, we don't use it as much primarily because kids have their lives here...
...other thing I think is that there is, I think there's a real camaraderie among First Ladies that I sense, just the willingness and openness of each and every one of them, just the sense of "I know what you're about to go through and I'm with you." I don't care ... "I know what you're going through." And I've gotten wonderful letters and phone calls and invitations to lunch, and it's just from every single former First Lady who is alive and can breathe - they've reached out. And my sense is that...
...then there are weekends where we're always together. He is traveling today, but he was gone overnight, and it's rare that he's gone overnight. It's just really rare, because he can go and do whatever he has to do and be back. The same thing for me. It's rare that, if I travel during the day, that I'm not back before dinner, because when you have Air Force One, you can do that. [Laughter...
...that there probably isn't a minute that goes by that he's not worrying, thinking, dealing, mulling something around in his head, that there's no real time that he can be down. And just knowing how stressful that is on a person, that's a tough thing to watch...