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...historical frame. It's just watching the person that you love deal with some of the toughest problems in the world. But the beauty of my husband is that he is capable and competent. I don't worry about him. I rest easy that he's in the White House. So it makes it easier for me, because I figure I can turn it off; he can't. And knowing that he can't, 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...
...just two days after the Inauguration when an e-mail went around to Michelle Obama's staff, instructing everyone to be in the East Room of the White House at 3 that afternoon. The First Lady's advisers arrived to find the room filled with ushers and plumbers, electricians and maids and kitchen crew gathered in a huge circle, and Michelle in a T shirt and ponytail, very casual and very much in charge...
...White House became as much Michelle Obama's stage as her 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...
...That was not Clinton's favorite part of the job. Maybe this is Michelle's true advantage: she appears at peace, even relieved, that her power is symbolic rather than institutional. It makes her less threatening, and more potent at the same time - especially since her presence at the White House has unique significance. (See pictures of when Michelle met Hillary...
...debate about What She Means shifted again, but this time it was feminists wondering if she or her handlers were using the J. Crew twin sets and Donna Reed hair to reassure white voters that "she's just like you." Under the liberal magnifying glass, Michelle was suddenly a victim, forced by her husband's ambitions and society's expectations to tone it down, soften it up, step back. "How will Michelle Obama feel as she becomes what she has long resisted - an extension of her husband?" asked Rebecca Traister in a Salon article called "The Momification of Michelle Obama...