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- My question, North
Carolina, is can we do this?

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(crowd cheering)

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Can we do this?

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(crowd cheering)

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Can we do this?

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- [Crowd] Yes we can!

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- [Michelle] Can we do this?

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- [Crowd] Yes we can!

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- Just imagine how many
of our kids we could help.

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Imagine how many lives we would transform.

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And like anything, this
is not gonna be easy,

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and it will not happen overnight.

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Be determined, be hopeful, be empowered.

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I was fortunate enough
to live in a household

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where we didn't have
much by way of resources.

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My parents didn't get to go to college,

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but that didn't mean that
they weren't intelligent.

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My parents saw this flame in me.

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That flame that would
challenge my Aunt Robbie

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and speak up for myself.

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They found a way to keep that flame lit.

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I'm not gonna be here forever

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and neither are any of you.

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And I wanna make sure that
the work that we've begun

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and the progress we've made will continue,

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not just for the length
of this administration

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but until the problem is solved.

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I have seen firsthand that being president

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doesn't change who you are.

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No, it reveals who you are.

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- I love that the Queen put
her arm around Michelle.

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And I believe that she said,

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"You know, I never
thought I would see this."

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- I'm more the storyteller,

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and, for me, I wanted this book

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to read like a story
because I wanted people,

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particularly young people, to
just get lost in the journey.

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- [Narrator] Michelle Obama
is now a bestselling author

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and a Grammy winner, thanks
to her book, "Becoming,"

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which is now the bestselling memoir ever,

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along with the audio book.

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Now both Malia and Sasha

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are both full-time college students,

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Michelle and Barack are
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but that doesn't mean they are
settling down by any means.

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In an ambitious deal with Netflix,

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the world-renowned couple are producing

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seven documentary films.

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Their new production company,
Higher Ground Productions,

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aims to be touching on
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democracy and civil rights and much more.

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The first of those seven,
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even managed to clinch an Oscar nod

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at the 2020 Academy Awards.

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Their powerful voices
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with something to say and something that

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needs to be heard.

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Obama was also asked to make a speech

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at John McCain's funeral, his opponent

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in the 2008 presidency race.

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He had been hand-picked by Senator McCain

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to speak at the funeral
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- Opinionated as ever,

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fiercely devoted to his friends

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and, most of all, to his family.

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It showed his irreverence,
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a little bit of a mischievous streak.

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After all, what better
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than to make George and I
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to a national audience?

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And most of all, it showed
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an ability to see past differences

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in search of common ground.

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- [Narrator] Obama used
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out against the status of the
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Though Trump was never mentioned,

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McCain had said that Obama did understand

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that some principles transcend politics,

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some values transcend party.

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Still, despite Michelle
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she has still made it very clear

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that she will never lose sight

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of where she came from,
the South Side of Chicago.

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- Well, I was fortunate enough to live

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in a household where we didn't have much

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by way of resources.

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My father was a working
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My parents didn't get to go to college.

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a couple of semesters
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but life hit them, and they had to work.

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that they weren't intelligent,
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And that's often the mistake that we make.

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We assume that working class folks

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are not highly gifted in their own right,

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when a lotta times your station in life

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is limited by the circumstances
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We were expected to be excellent.

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And it wasn't just my mother and father.

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We grew up with a very
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I talk about how each of the children

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lived with an elder of some sort.

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We grew up a Great-Aunt Robbie,

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who was a strict task
master, a piano teacher.

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that I describe, because she taught piano

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to the neighborhood kids downstairs.

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And I would hear all
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all those young people trying to please

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my Aunt Robbie because she was very clear

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about what she expected.

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I always wanted to keep up with others.

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So striving happened every day.

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But I could also challenge that,

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and that's one of the stories I tell.

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I was four years old
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the piano with Aunt Robbie,

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and she was kind of a crank.

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She had a particular way
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And I learned by ear,
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I learned the scales
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and when I would go down,

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I'd start to play it.

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So I could progress
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than she wanted me to,
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And we would battle it out.

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At four years old, I was
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Why do I have to play
the songs in your order?

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She was my first combatant,

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and she defeated me.

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So I grew up with that kind of energy.

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and you weren't allowed to use slang.

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And that was the beauty of
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My mother said, would always tell me,

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"I'm raising adults.

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"I'm not raising babies."

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Her philosophy was that
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a lot if she took the time to explain it.

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So it was never speak only when spoken to.

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She encouraged us to
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But one of the things that my parents

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believed was that my voice was relevant

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and my opinions were meaningful

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and my anger and frustration was real.

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And that's something that's important

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for parents of any socio-economic
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That was the gift that she gave me.

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I say that my parents
saw this flame in me,

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that flame that would
challenge my Aunt Robbie

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and speak up for myself.

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And instead of doing what we often do

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to girls who are feisty,
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that flame out, to douse it ever just so

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because we're worried about them not

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being ladylike or being bossy,

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they found a way to keep that flame lit

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because they knew I'd need it later on.

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And to have that flame lit in a girl

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means that you have to value her voice

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and let her speak and learn how to use

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it with boundaries.
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- My father, classic example, he believed

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in real, practical lessons.

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I don't write about this, but I remember

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there was a time that my brother wondered

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Look around, we live
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in a little bitty neighborhood.

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What he did was, he took his paycheck

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at the end of the month
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that he had to pay, and he put money

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from multiple sclerosis,
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that took a serious toll on his life.

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When she lost her father
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it rocked Michelle's world.

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She called him the hole in her heart.

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- Her family was like Beaver Cleaver,

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that it was so wholesome, just they earned

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But this really was an
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She really loves family,
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Family is really important to her.

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- I didn't want to let my parents down,

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so I worked hard in school.

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I read everything I could get my hands on.

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I did my absolute very best
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I did everything in my power

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to be a good student.

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I dreamed of one day going to one

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of the best universities in America.

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But despite my efforts,
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in my life who told me that I was setting

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That a girl like me couldn't
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It was like these folks were tryin'

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to put me in a little box,

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a box that fit their
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And after a while, I started to wonder,

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well, maybe I was dreamin' too big.

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What if these folks were right?

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See, back then, I didn't
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I didn't know that I'd be accepted

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to a top university.

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I didn't know that I'd
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and become an NGO director
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and eventually first lady
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- [Narrator] She aimed high,

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applying at Princeton University,

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where she was accepted and
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Four years later, she
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but Michelle didn't stop there.

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She would go on to study and earn a degree

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from Harvard Law School in 1988.

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- Michelle went on to Princeton,

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and everyone knows, of course, after that

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she went to Harvard Law School.

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And she rose to the
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One of the other things that comes out

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in the book that's very compelling

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is that she hated being a lawyer.

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She'd gone to Harvard Law,

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she was at the top of her game.

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She was at a law firm, very prestigious,

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and she was doing all
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And she said to her mom, "I hate it.

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"I hate being a lawyer."

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And her mom actually tried to talk her

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into staying as a lawyer
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money she was making.

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It was an incredible amount of money.

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And she said, "Okay, make your money,

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"and later do something you love

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"because what an amazing opportunity."

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But for Michelle, she realized that she

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had to follow her passion,
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And, of course, we all know what happened.

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- If I worried about who liked me

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and who thought I was
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I wouldn't be married to the president

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of the United States today.

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Sorry.

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- [Woman] That's amazing!

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That's so great!

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- [Narrator] In August of 1989,
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was working as an associate in the Chicago

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law firm Sidley & Austin
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to mentor a summer intern.

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That summer intern was
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Barack landed the internship off the back

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of his exceptional work as a law student

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at Harvard University.

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In her book "Becoming," Michelle expresses

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that the glowing praise that surrounded

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the confident young Barack seemed at odds

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with his easygoing attitude.

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He was like no one she had ever met.

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Despite a fluttering interest

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in this cool cat from Hawaii,

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Michelle, being career
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It's safe to say that
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- He was definitely pursuing her,

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and she had her reservations.

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And eventually, he won her over.

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- [Narrator] Famously,
the couple's first kiss

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is commemorated at 53rd and
South Dorchester in Chicago.

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A quaint plaque on a rock reads,

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"On our first date, I
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"Baskin-Robbins had to offer,

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"our dinner table doubling as the curb.

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"I kissed her, and it
tasted like chocolate."

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♪ G-G-Give it up ♪

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♪ Give it up to me, baby ♪

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♪ You got to give it up ♪

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♪ Won't you gimme your sweet love ♪

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♪ Oh, yeah, baby ♪

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♪ Gimme that love ♪

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♪ You gotta gotta gotta give it up ♪

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♪ Baby ♪

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- She's very candid in her book

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about the fact that it
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That he had this distinct
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And she saw him as being amazing and great

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but not dating, marriage material.

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I think he kinda grew on
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because once they actually did have

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their first date, Michelle says it was

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almost immediate that she knew

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that this was gonna be
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One of the biggest revelations
in Michelle's book "Becoming"

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is her own painful
struggle to have children.

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We find out that Michelle had
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prior to having her daughters

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and then was forced to rely on IVF

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for the successful conception

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of her two girls, Malia and Sasha.

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This was something she
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breathtaking detail.

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She talks about the
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herself at nine o'clock at night somewhere

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with the hormones she needed.

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How the fact that Barack was often gone

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or traveling was difficult as she was

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contemplating the IVF and doing the IVF.

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She's very honest about it

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and very candid about her own struggles

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to have her girls.

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And this is something
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Michelle is very honest
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about her and Barack's
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with Oprah Winfrey for
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"Yes, I know people see
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"but it's not as
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I think for Michelle, it
was important to paint

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a more accurate, realistic picture

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of the fact that you have
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very driven, very ambitious
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to find a way to have a successful
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One of the things Michelle talks about is

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her way of loving and
her feeling of security

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was different than Barack's.

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Barack didn't grow up near his mother.

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He was raised by his grandparents.

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And yet he knew his mother
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For Michelle, she wanted him present.

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She wanted her husband around her.

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That's how she felt loved and secure.

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But for Barack, it didn't
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So I think Michelle's very honest and open

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about the fact that she and Barack had

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to find a way to love each other

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and also be true to themselves.

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And she openly talks about the fact

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that the pair underwent couples counseling

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shortly after the birth
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- Barack Obama didn't get

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into Columbia University right away.

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He actually started off and
went to Occidental College

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in the U.S. in California.

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And then he transferred
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an Ivy League school, but from there on,

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his career really soared.

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He would eventually get a law degree

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from Harvard Law, and he would be one

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of the editors, the first
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of the "Harvard Law Review."

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Then he continued to engage
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in the state of Illinois, in Chicago.

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And from there on, he became an Illinois

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state senator for eight years.

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He gained some experience in the Illinois

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state senate, and then this propelled him

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to the national stage when he would

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become a U.S. senator in 2004.

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He lived a very solitary
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and he didn't uproot
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But his greatest achievements weren't

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gonna be in the Senate.

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He probably knew that.

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He had the level of fame
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senator had achieved at that point

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given what he had actually accomplished.

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- We are all connected, as a people,

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that all of us share something.

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That these children right here lined up,

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waiting for the Red Hot Chili Peppers,

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- [Children] Yeah!
- yeah, that I've got

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an investment in them

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even though they're not my children.

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Just like you have an investment

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in the children in the
South Side of Chicago

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who are tryin' to figure out

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whether they've got a decent education

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(audience applauding)
And it's that idea

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that we are all connected.

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That I am my brother's keeper.

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I am my sister's keeper.

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That we have a set of
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each other that express
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in our families, not
only in our communities,

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not only in our places of worship

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but also in our government.

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- The Obamas were a breath
of fresh air, literally.

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And even people who were
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diametrically opposed to every single

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policy position, like my mother,

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loved them because, she
said, "This is what we need.

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"We need this kind of breath of fresh air.

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"We need this kind of new energy

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"to be brought into the White House."

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I think it was difficult for Michelle

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to come to terms with the fact that Barack

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wanted a political career.

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She's very civic-minded,
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And so she really didn't want to get

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into any kind of career where
there would be mudslinging

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and all the different
things that come with it.

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But, as always, she
wanted to support Barack

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and whatever aspirations that he had.

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I think she understood
that he had aspirations

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for greatness and was capable of achieving

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these types of things.

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And that he's sort of a
once-in-a-lifetime type of person.

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A type of candidate that the world

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had never seen before,

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definitely the U.S. had never seen before,

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and that she was gonna
need to support him.

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And that that didn't necessarily mean

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that she had to let go
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It just meant that she needed
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and supporting him all along the way.

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I'm sure she was one of his biggest fans

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but also one of the people that he trusted

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the most in terms of offering him advice.

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- Can we do this?

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(crowd cheering)

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Can we do this?

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(crowd cheering)

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Can we do this?

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- [Crowd] Yes we can!

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- Can we do this?

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- [Crowd] Yes we can!

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Yes we can!

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Yes we can!

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Yes we can!

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- And North Carolina,
who is that candidate?

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(crowd cheering)

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I-I I didn't hear you.

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- [Crowd] Obama!

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- And as I was lookin' at her, I thought,

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she could be any one of us.

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She's a great mother.

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She's got a great education.

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She's about all the values
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So I think she'll make
a perfect first lady.

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(upbeat music)

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- [Narrator] As Barack
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presidential election began,
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public turned toward their
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- When she was originally
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what's impossible to think of now

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is that she was thought of as a liability

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because of several
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She was being interviewed by reporters

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in early 2008, and she had mentioned

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"This is the first time in my adult life

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"that I am proud to be an American."

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And this really didn't play well.

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People didn't like the fact that she was

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emphasizing race too much.

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Then her dissertation was published

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when she was a student,
which emphasized how

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difficult it would be to
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in a white university.

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That also didn't play over very well.

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And there were caricatures of her

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as this angry black woman who was militant

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and was overly focusing on race.

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And they decided that they were basically

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gonna give her a complete makeover,

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a complete image makeover
because they felt

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that she was coming
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But that's part of who she was.

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If she wanted to defend her husband,

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you know, she's a Harvard-educated lawyer,

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she would do it in a
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and effective manner.

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But that wasn't playing across well

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given some of the other events that were

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going on at that time.

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So they gave her this big image makeover,

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which they unveiled at
the Democratic Convention

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in August of 2008.

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And it was really successful.

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- As I tuck that little girl
in and her little sister

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into bed at night, you
see, I think about how

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one day, they'll have
families of their own

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and how one day, they and
your sons and daughters

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will tell their own
children about what we did

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together in this election.

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(audience cheering)

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They'll tell them

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they'll tell them how this time

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we listened to our hopes
instead of our fears.

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- In her speech, and
she was a great speaker,

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just as Barack is, she
mentioned family quite a bit.

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She really emphasized her maternal role,

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and she exuded a lot of warmth.

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And it was really natural, this warmth.

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- How this time in this great country,

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where a girl from the
South Side of Chicago

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can go to college and law school

524
00:23:43.000 --> 00:23:45.550
and the son of a single mother from Hawaii

525
00:23:45.550 --> 00:23:48.148
can go all the way to the White House

526
00:23:48.148 --> 00:23:49.916
(crowd cheering)

527
00:23:49.916 --> 00:23:51.593
that we committed ourselves.

528
00:23:53.140 --> 00:23:54.320
- The world goes into it.

529
00:23:54.320 --> 00:23:56.010
And so this is really looking at things

530
00:23:56.010 --> 00:23:58.920
from hair to clothes to diction.

531
00:23:58.920 --> 00:24:01.270
People don't wake up and
become Michelle Obamas.

532
00:24:01.270 --> 00:24:03.270
That takes time, that take effort,

533
00:24:03.270 --> 00:24:06.410
and that takes a mighty
great team as well,

534
00:24:06.410 --> 00:24:07.420
to put you together.

535
00:24:07.420 --> 00:24:10.120
- Now you know why I asked her out

536
00:24:10.120 --> 00:24:12.590
so many times
(audience laughing)

537
00:24:12.590 --> 00:24:14.113
even though she said no.

538
00:24:15.197 --> 00:24:17.797
You want a persistent president.

539
00:24:17.797 --> 00:24:19.040
(gentle music)

540
00:24:19.040 --> 00:24:22.010
- [Narrator] Michelle,
Malia and Sasha traveled

541
00:24:22.010 --> 00:24:24.120
the length of the country during what was

542
00:24:24.120 --> 00:24:25.883
a grueling campaign schedule.

543
00:24:27.830 --> 00:24:30.880
Delivering speeches, hosting fundraisers,

544
00:24:30.880 --> 00:24:33.520
Michelle did her part to support Barack.

545
00:24:33.520 --> 00:24:36.070
But it wasn't without its challenges.

546
00:24:36.070 --> 00:24:38.010
- The campaign experience was draining

547
00:24:38.010 --> 00:24:41.210
for all of Barack Obama's family.

548
00:24:41.210 --> 00:24:43.650
They were constantly on the road

549
00:24:43.650 --> 00:24:46.930
and having to deal with
raising kids on the road.

550
00:24:46.930 --> 00:24:50.670
Michelle Obama was having
to give a lot of speeches.

551
00:24:50.670 --> 00:24:53.350
And this kinda carried
on into the eight years

552
00:24:53.350 --> 00:24:54.500
that she was in office.

553
00:24:54.500 --> 00:24:55.487
She was exhausted.

554
00:24:55.487 --> 00:24:57.740
He talked about how
she was looking forward

555
00:24:57.740 --> 00:24:59.630
to being able to do so many things

556
00:24:59.630 --> 00:25:01.110
that she couldn't do before.

557
00:25:01.110 --> 00:25:06.110
It was something that
she really gave up a lot

558
00:25:07.090 --> 00:25:12.090
in order to support him and for this goal

559
00:25:12.220 --> 00:25:14.020
of achieving something
for the greater good.

560
00:25:14.020 --> 00:25:15.877
I think she really felt
that this was something

561
00:25:15.877 --> 00:25:17.740
that she needed to chip in on

562
00:25:17.740 --> 00:25:20.760
and be supportive of,
not because she really

563
00:25:20.760 --> 00:25:22.350
wanted to do it, that this would've been

564
00:25:22.350 --> 00:25:24.250
her first choice, but she just felt

565
00:25:24.250 --> 00:25:25.730
it was the right thing to do.

566
00:25:25.730 --> 00:25:28.310
(gentle music)

567
00:25:28.310 --> 00:25:30.890
I think she knew that everything,

568
00:25:30.890 --> 00:25:32.560
starting from the campaign to the way

569
00:25:32.560 --> 00:25:35.800
she adjusted her image for the campaign

570
00:25:35.800 --> 00:25:37.349
to the way she adjusted her image

571
00:25:37.349 --> 00:25:40.540
to be this new type of first lady,

572
00:25:40.540 --> 00:25:42.660
all of this stuff was a
huge sacrifice to her.

573
00:25:42.660 --> 00:25:45.080
This wouldn't have been her choice.

574
00:25:45.080 --> 00:25:46.640
This wouldn't have been
what she wanted to do.

575
00:25:46.640 --> 00:25:49.400
She didn't have these types
of political aspirations.

576
00:25:49.400 --> 00:25:51.520
But I think she saw this as all part

577
00:25:51.520 --> 00:25:55.170
of something that needed to be achieved

578
00:25:55.170 --> 00:25:59.340
just for the greater good of U.S. society,

579
00:25:59.340 --> 00:26:01.130
political culture.

580
00:26:01.130 --> 00:26:03.770
The country at this time needed optimism

581
00:26:03.770 --> 00:26:05.520
and needed these types of policies.

582
00:26:08.370 --> 00:26:11.670
The actual night itself, there was quite

583
00:26:11.670 --> 00:26:14.380
a bit of optimism because Obama was going

584
00:26:14.380 --> 00:26:19.380
into the night with a lead
in the polls by 5% to 10%.

585
00:26:21.029 --> 00:26:23.590
And there was a feeling that his campaign

586
00:26:23.590 --> 00:26:25.790
had been very dynamic and that he was

587
00:26:25.790 --> 00:26:28.000
likely to flip some states.

588
00:26:28.000 --> 00:26:33.000
So in the end, you had him
winning 338 electoral votes,

589
00:26:34.010 --> 00:26:35.480
winning 52% of the vote,

590
00:26:35.480 --> 00:26:38.160
and he flipped seven states that had

591
00:26:38.160 --> 00:26:41.110
been previously in the
hands of Republicans.

592
00:26:41.110 --> 00:26:42.930
And that was significant.

593
00:26:42.930 --> 00:26:45.110
I think some of the most significant wins

594
00:26:45.110 --> 00:26:48.378
were in the Rust Belt, namely Ohio,

595
00:26:48.378 --> 00:26:53.378
but also Virginia, of course,
North Carolina and Florida.

596
00:26:53.750 --> 00:26:57.628
These wins came out earlier in the night,

597
00:26:57.628 --> 00:27:00.200
and it became clear he was
going to be the winner.

598
00:27:00.200 --> 00:27:04.190
But at election night,
the electoral victory was,

599
00:27:04.190 --> 00:27:07.584
for many people, one of the
greatest moments for them.

600
00:27:07.584 --> 00:27:10.240
They probably agreed
with what Michelle Obama

601
00:27:10.240 --> 00:27:12.310
had said earlier that year that it was

602
00:27:12.310 --> 00:27:14.850
a moment where Americans felt proud.

603
00:27:14.850 --> 00:27:18.180
It was definitely a moment for minorities,

604
00:27:18.180 --> 00:27:21.228
the African American community,
even the Hispanic community,

605
00:27:21.228 --> 00:27:26.228
that they felt that they
had achieved something.

606
00:27:26.397 --> 00:27:30.060
(audience applauding)

607
00:27:30.060 --> 00:27:33.990
It was just one of the
most impressive things

608
00:27:33.990 --> 00:27:35.830
that the U.S. had accomplished.

609
00:27:35.830 --> 00:27:37.970
- Michelle Obama's famous
for a lot of things,

610
00:27:37.970 --> 00:27:40.530
not the least of which
is her enviable arms.

611
00:27:40.530 --> 00:27:41.960
One of the things we saw from her

612
00:27:41.960 --> 00:27:44.010
as first lady was the first time

613
00:27:44.010 --> 00:27:46.400
a first lady started
wearing high street brands.

614
00:27:46.400 --> 00:27:47.600
She was wearing J. Crew.

615
00:27:47.600 --> 00:27:50.830
She was wearing other brands
which were very mainstream.

616
00:27:50.830 --> 00:27:52.410
It wasn't like Nancy Reagan

617
00:27:52.410 --> 00:27:54.500
in her Oscar de la Renta all the time.

618
00:27:54.500 --> 00:27:56.720
She was mixing and
matching designer labels

619
00:27:56.720 --> 00:27:58.930
with high street mainstream brands,

620
00:27:58.930 --> 00:28:01.797
which is what, of course, most women do.

621
00:28:01.797 --> 00:28:04.510
We very famously saw
her supporting J. Crew

622
00:28:04.510 --> 00:28:06.010
from the very beginning, which is a very

623
00:28:06.010 --> 00:28:07.810
quintessentially American brand,

624
00:28:07.810 --> 00:28:09.830
and she wore a lot of sleeveless tops.

625
00:28:09.830 --> 00:28:11.740
Of course, the whole world took notice

626
00:28:11.740 --> 00:28:13.890
of the fact that she had such great arms.

627
00:28:13.890 --> 00:28:16.870
Michelle Obama's arms,
in fact, were requested

628
00:28:16.870 --> 00:28:19.082
of plastic surgeons around the land

629
00:28:19.082 --> 00:28:24.081
by women who wanted to
emulate their beauty, really.

630
00:28:24.081 --> 00:28:26.664
(upbeat music)

631
00:28:30.250 --> 00:28:32.260
Michelle Obama has a great wardrobe,

632
00:28:32.260 --> 00:28:36.040
and the fact that she's
5'11", has incredible height

633
00:28:36.040 --> 00:28:38.070
and stature in which to show it off.

634
00:28:38.070 --> 00:28:40.700
She took risks in terms of fashion.

635
00:28:40.700 --> 00:28:43.820
She wore outfits that were
a bit sexy and glamorous.

636
00:28:43.820 --> 00:28:45.447
She wore Versace very famously

637
00:28:45.447 --> 00:28:48.380
and looked very slinky
and straightened her hair.

638
00:28:48.380 --> 00:28:51.920
She was not afraid to
take risks with fashion,

639
00:28:51.920 --> 00:28:53.933
and she loves fashion, and it shows.

640
00:29:02.790 --> 00:29:05.170
- Ladies and gentlemen, the first lady

641
00:29:05.170 --> 00:29:07.803
of the United States, Michelle Obama.

642
00:29:07.803 --> 00:29:10.803
(audience cheering)

643
00:29:13.080 --> 00:29:14.850
- I think what a lot of people who know

644
00:29:14.850 --> 00:29:18.340
Michelle Obama say about
her is she's hilarious.

645
00:29:18.340 --> 00:29:19.910
She has a great sense of humor,

646
00:29:19.910 --> 00:29:21.690
and she's really funny.

647
00:29:21.690 --> 00:29:24.100
One of the great dynamics between Michelle

648
00:29:24.100 --> 00:29:28.420
and her husband is there's
a friendly competitiveness.

649
00:29:28.420 --> 00:29:31.940
They are famously
competitive with each other.

650
00:29:31.940 --> 00:29:33.480
A friend of mine who was actually

651
00:29:33.480 --> 00:29:37.850
at the 2004 convention when
Barack's keynote speech

652
00:29:37.850 --> 00:29:40.371
thrust him into the national spotlight,

653
00:29:40.371 --> 00:29:42.520
just before he went on stage,

654
00:29:42.520 --> 00:29:43.730
Michelle gave him a big hug

655
00:29:43.730 --> 00:29:45.850
and said, "Don't screw it up, buddy."

656
00:29:45.850 --> 00:29:49.730
So Michelle has a very
famously competitive,

657
00:29:49.730 --> 00:29:52.737
very funny competitive
relationship with her husband.

658
00:29:52.737 --> 00:29:56.340
In her book "Becoming,"
it's really remarkable

659
00:29:56.340 --> 00:29:58.780
how much shade she throws at her husband,

660
00:29:58.780 --> 00:30:02.560
where she talks about
his whiff of geekiness

661
00:30:02.560 --> 00:30:03.940
on their date and other things

662
00:30:03.940 --> 00:30:06.130
that make him seem very human.

663
00:30:06.130 --> 00:30:09.380
- I think for Barack
and Michelle's children,

664
00:30:09.380 --> 00:30:11.160
Sasha and Malia, growing
up in the White House

665
00:30:11.160 --> 00:30:12.620
probably wasn't easy.

666
00:30:12.620 --> 00:30:15.840
They had some advice from the previous

667
00:30:15.840 --> 00:30:19.357
first children, the Bush
twins, Jenna and Barbara Bush.

668
00:30:19.357 --> 00:30:21.490
They actually took them under their wing

669
00:30:21.490 --> 00:30:23.640
and gave them a lot of helpful advice.

670
00:30:23.640 --> 00:30:27.270
But one of the things that
made it easier for them

671
00:30:27.270 --> 00:30:31.140
was that they had such a strong family.

672
00:30:31.140 --> 00:30:33.210
They had their grandmother
living with them.

673
00:30:33.210 --> 00:30:36.650
They had their mother
ensuring that they're able

674
00:30:36.650 --> 00:30:39.390
to live as normally as possible.

675
00:30:39.390 --> 00:30:41.100
And something that is notable about those

676
00:30:41.100 --> 00:30:43.210
eight years for them was that there

677
00:30:43.210 --> 00:30:46.830
was never anything negatively
reported on them, ever.

678
00:30:46.830 --> 00:30:51.320
It could be the media was
exercising some caution there.

679
00:30:51.320 --> 00:30:53.030
But even since they have

680
00:30:53.030 --> 00:30:57.182
now become younger
adults and are no longer

681
00:30:57.182 --> 00:30:59.560
living in the White House,

682
00:30:59.560 --> 00:31:02.840
they have earned a
reputation for just being

683
00:31:02.840 --> 00:31:06.100
really solid, well-behaved girls

684
00:31:06.100 --> 00:31:08.400
that have been really raised well.

685
00:31:08.400 --> 00:31:11.470
And a lot of this has been attributed

686
00:31:11.470 --> 00:31:15.050
to the work that Michelle had done

687
00:31:15.050 --> 00:31:17.720
in the White House but
also Michelle and Barack

688
00:31:17.720 --> 00:31:19.810
as a family just ensuring that they

689
00:31:19.810 --> 00:31:22.611
had some level of stability and normalcy

690
00:31:22.611 --> 00:31:24.810
in spite of the fact that they were living

691
00:31:24.810 --> 00:31:26.565
in very abnormal conditions.

692
00:31:26.565 --> 00:31:29.148
(gentle music)

693
00:31:30.380 --> 00:31:32.650
- Earlier today, as you
heard, Malia and Sasha and I

694
00:31:32.650 --> 00:31:35.720
visited the Long Room at Trinity College.

695
00:31:35.720 --> 00:31:38.290
As you know, I don't know if
many of you have been there.

696
00:31:38.290 --> 00:31:40.051
It's like Hogwarts,

697
00:31:40.051 --> 00:31:41.520
(audience laughing)
as Sasha pointed out.

698
00:31:41.520 --> 00:31:45.210
It's a huge room with shelf
after shelf full of books,

699
00:31:45.210 --> 00:31:48.080
beautiful place, and
I hope that all of you

700
00:31:48.080 --> 00:31:51.900
aspire to go there, if not study there.

701
00:31:51.900 --> 00:31:54.010
But just to go and experience what it's

702
00:31:54.010 --> 00:31:56.950
like to be surrounded by so much history

703
00:31:56.950 --> 00:31:58.640
and so much power.

704
00:31:58.640 --> 00:32:00.550
And the girls had the chance to explore

705
00:32:00.550 --> 00:32:04.390
those shelves and trace
their Irish lineage,

706
00:32:04.390 --> 00:32:06.220
which was a very powerful thing

707
00:32:06.220 --> 00:32:08.540
to find out that these
girls that were born

708
00:32:08.540 --> 00:32:10.185
on the South Side of Chicago can trace

709
00:32:10.185 --> 00:32:12.871
their roots back here to Ireland,

710
00:32:12.871 --> 00:32:15.433
way back to the 1600s.

711
00:32:16.870 --> 00:32:19.250
That was very powerful
for me as their mother,

712
00:32:19.250 --> 00:32:21.800
and hopefully it will
be something that they

713
00:32:21.800 --> 00:32:23.970
cherish for the rest of their lives.

714
00:32:23.970 --> 00:32:25.010
- One of the things that Michelle

715
00:32:25.010 --> 00:32:26.420
is best known for is the fact

716
00:32:26.420 --> 00:32:28.280
that she's an incredible public speaker,

717
00:32:28.280 --> 00:32:30.470
and some say that she's even better

718
00:32:30.470 --> 00:32:33.800
or let's say as good as
her very famous husband.

719
00:32:33.800 --> 00:32:35.350
Michelle and Barack were actually quite

720
00:32:35.350 --> 00:32:37.490
competitive about their speeches.

721
00:32:37.490 --> 00:32:40.910
When Michelle was
prepping to give her 2016

722
00:32:40.910 --> 00:32:42.480
Democratic Convention speech,

723
00:32:42.480 --> 00:32:44.837
which is the very famous
one where she says,

724
00:32:44.837 --> 00:32:47.840
"When they go low, we go high."

725
00:32:47.840 --> 00:32:49.870
Barack heard her in one of the rehearsals

726
00:32:49.870 --> 00:32:51.790
and ended up going back to his notes

727
00:32:51.790 --> 00:32:53.700
to work a bit harder to make sure

728
00:32:53.700 --> 00:32:56.760
he was as good or better than his wife.

729
00:32:56.760 --> 00:33:00.080
Michelle is a famously
good public speaker.

730
00:33:00.080 --> 00:33:01.260
She has great presence,

731
00:33:01.260 --> 00:33:02.870
she has great authority,

732
00:33:02.870 --> 00:33:04.810
and at the same time, she manages to be

733
00:33:04.810 --> 00:33:06.310
interesting and relatable.

734
00:33:06.310 --> 00:33:09.165
It's one of her best skills.

735
00:33:09.165 --> 00:33:09.998
(crowd cheering)

736
00:33:09.998 --> 00:33:12.230
- You know, it's hard to believe

737
00:33:12.230 --> 00:33:15.610
that it as been eight years since I first

738
00:33:15.610 --> 00:33:18.650
came to this convention to talk with you

739
00:33:18.650 --> 00:33:22.406
about why I thought my
husband should be president.

740
00:33:22.406 --> 00:33:25.156
(crowd cheering)

741
00:33:26.000 --> 00:33:31.000
Remember how I told you about
his character and conviction,

742
00:33:31.000 --> 00:33:33.960
his decency and his grace.

743
00:33:33.960 --> 00:33:36.610
The traits that we've seen every day

744
00:33:36.610 --> 00:33:39.189
that he served our country
in the White House.

745
00:33:39.189 --> 00:33:42.320
(crowd cheering)

746
00:33:42.320 --> 00:33:46.730
I also told you about our daughters,

747
00:33:46.730 --> 00:33:49.020
how they are the heart of our hearts,

748
00:33:49.020 --> 00:33:50.380
the center of our world.

749
00:33:50.380 --> 00:33:52.350
And during our time in the White House,

750
00:33:52.350 --> 00:33:54.570
we've had the joy of watching them grow

751
00:33:54.570 --> 00:33:58.870
from bubbly little girls
into poised young women,

752
00:33:58.870 --> 00:34:03.520
a journey that started soon
after we arrived in Washington

753
00:34:03.520 --> 00:34:05.490
when they set off for their first day

754
00:34:05.490 --> 00:34:07.370
at their new school.

755
00:34:07.370 --> 00:34:10.010
I will never forget that winter morning

756
00:34:10.010 --> 00:34:14.090
as I watched our girls,
just seven and 10 years old,

757
00:34:14.090 --> 00:34:17.070
pile into those black SUVs with all those

758
00:34:17.070 --> 00:34:18.596
big men with guns.

759
00:34:18.596 --> 00:34:21.082
(audience murmurs)

760
00:34:21.082 --> 00:34:22.800
And I saw their little faces pressed

761
00:34:22.800 --> 00:34:25.900
up against the window, and the only thing

762
00:34:25.900 --> 00:34:29.376
I could think was what have we done?

763
00:34:29.376 --> 00:34:31.530
(audience laughing)

764
00:34:31.530 --> 00:34:33.870
See, because at that moment, I realized

765
00:34:33.870 --> 00:34:35.900
that our time in the
White House would form

766
00:34:35.900 --> 00:34:38.720
the foundation for who they would become.

767
00:34:38.720 --> 00:34:41.270
And how well we managed this experience

768
00:34:41.270 --> 00:34:43.830
could truly make or break them.

769
00:34:43.830 --> 00:34:47.120
That is what Barack and
I think about every day

770
00:34:47.120 --> 00:34:50.040
as we try to guide and protect our girls

771
00:34:50.040 --> 00:34:51.530
through the challenges of this

772
00:34:51.530 --> 00:34:54.910
unusual life in the spotlight.

773
00:34:54.910 --> 00:34:57.250
- Barack and Michelle
Obama had an excellent

774
00:34:57.250 --> 00:34:59.373
relationship throughout the presidency.

775
00:35:00.550 --> 00:35:02.740
Any relationship is gonna be tested

776
00:35:02.740 --> 00:35:05.590
when you're dealing with
high levels of stress.

777
00:35:05.590 --> 00:35:07.530
And so it's not to say that their

778
00:35:07.530 --> 00:35:09.630
relationship didn't experience some bumps

779
00:35:09.630 --> 00:35:12.740
and some tense discussions along the way.

780
00:35:12.740 --> 00:35:14.070
And they've admitted that.

781
00:35:14.070 --> 00:35:15.670
But they see themselves as a team.

782
00:35:15.670 --> 00:35:20.249
They see themselves as
much stronger together

783
00:35:20.249 --> 00:35:23.810
than apart, and they
really respect each other.

784
00:35:23.810 --> 00:35:25.370
They see each other as equals.

785
00:35:25.370 --> 00:35:27.890
I think during the entire presidency,

786
00:35:27.890 --> 00:35:29.650
they were able to weather a lot of storms,

787
00:35:29.650 --> 00:35:32.660
difficult storms that he
faced just being president,

788
00:35:32.660 --> 00:35:33.993
all the attacks he faced.

789
00:35:34.890 --> 00:35:36.710
They were able to weather this together,

790
00:35:36.710 --> 00:35:40.610
and their relationship is
probably stronger as a result.

791
00:35:40.610 --> 00:35:41.590
But it's really one of the few

792
00:35:41.590 --> 00:35:46.390
political marriages that was
just completely scandal free,

793
00:35:46.390 --> 00:35:47.950
that was really about a deep love

794
00:35:47.950 --> 00:35:49.170
that they shared for one another

795
00:35:49.170 --> 00:35:50.930
that wasn't really about a marriage

796
00:35:50.930 --> 00:35:52.610
of political convenience.

797
00:35:52.610 --> 00:35:55.580
And both Republicans and Democrats alike

798
00:35:55.580 --> 00:35:57.850
would have to acknowledge that this

799
00:35:57.850 --> 00:35:59.350
was a very solid relationship.

800
00:35:59.350 --> 00:36:01.427
It was a model relationship

801
00:36:01.427 --> 00:36:04.027
and one that a lot of other
people could learn from.

802
00:36:14.690 --> 00:36:16.950
- Michelle Obama is famously tactile

803
00:36:16.950 --> 00:36:20.210
and warm, and we've seen
that over and over again.

804
00:36:20.210 --> 00:36:24.170
But in 2009 at the G2
Summit, there was a faux pas

805
00:36:24.170 --> 00:36:25.980
heard round the world
when Michelle actually

806
00:36:25.980 --> 00:36:28.735
put her arm around Queen Elizabeth.

807
00:36:28.735 --> 00:36:30.640
Everyone was shocked, because this is

808
00:36:30.640 --> 00:36:33.150
a firm break with royal protocol.

809
00:36:33.150 --> 00:36:34.790
Michelle and the Queen had actually been

810
00:36:34.790 --> 00:36:36.730
having a bit of a giggle because they were

811
00:36:36.730 --> 00:36:39.430
both talking about how
uncomfortable their shoes are.

812
00:36:39.430 --> 00:36:41.460
Queen Elizabeth apparently complimented

813
00:36:41.460 --> 00:36:43.230
Michelle on her Jimmy Choos,

814
00:36:43.230 --> 00:36:45.230
and Michelle confided that they were

815
00:36:45.230 --> 00:36:46.670
incredibly uncomfortable.

816
00:36:46.670 --> 00:36:49.110
And Queen Elizabeth said
apparently hers were as well.

817
00:36:49.110 --> 00:36:50.780
And they had a bit of a laugh,

818
00:36:50.780 --> 00:36:52.510
and Michelle put her arm around the Queen,

819
00:36:52.510 --> 00:36:55.423
which caused gasps which could
be heard around the world.

820
00:36:56.580 --> 00:37:01.580
- I love that the Queen put
her arm around Michelle.

821
00:37:01.800 --> 00:37:05.957
And I believe that she said,
"You know, I never thought

822
00:37:05.957 --> 00:37:10.070
"I would see this, so you know what, hey."

823
00:37:10.070 --> 00:37:11.250
I loved it.

824
00:37:11.250 --> 00:37:13.700
I know people got crazy.

825
00:37:13.700 --> 00:37:14.823
She touched the Queen!

826
00:37:16.470 --> 00:37:17.930
But she didn't melt.

827
00:37:17.930 --> 00:37:20.580
She didn't disappear, you know.

828
00:37:20.580 --> 00:37:22.520
Now, I'm sure she doesn't
want a whole bunch

829
00:37:22.520 --> 00:37:23.610
of people touching her,

830
00:37:23.610 --> 00:37:24.760
'cause I don't want a whole bunch

831
00:37:24.760 --> 00:37:26.300
of people touching me, okay?

832
00:37:26.300 --> 00:37:31.300
So I figure that the
protocol does not change,

833
00:37:31.560 --> 00:37:35.040
but every now and then,
I think something happens

834
00:37:35.040 --> 00:37:37.647
where she goes, "I'm
gonna mark this occasion.

835
00:37:37.647 --> 00:37:39.217
"I'm gonna mark this and no one

836
00:37:39.217 --> 00:37:41.040
"will ever forget this."

837
00:37:41.040 --> 00:37:43.950
I just wanted to tip my dread to her.

838
00:37:43.950 --> 00:37:46.650
I just thought it was the
most marvelous thing I'd seen.

839
00:37:46.650 --> 00:37:48.939
- The thing is, Queen
Elizabeth seemed to like it.

840
00:37:48.939 --> 00:37:51.040
There was this stage later on

841
00:37:51.040 --> 00:37:53.150
where Queen Elizabeth invited Michelle

842
00:37:53.150 --> 00:37:55.360
to sit in the back of
her Range Rover with her

843
00:37:55.360 --> 00:37:56.880
on the way somewhere.

844
00:37:56.880 --> 00:37:58.860
And when Michelle hesitated,

845
00:37:58.860 --> 00:37:59.777
the Queen said to Michelle,

846
00:37:59.777 --> 00:38:03.110
"Have they warned you
that you can't do this?"

847
00:38:03.110 --> 00:38:04.610
And when she said yes,

848
00:38:04.610 --> 00:38:07.140
the Queen said, "Rubbish, you
can sit wherever you want."

849
00:38:07.140 --> 00:38:09.220
So it seems like, despite the fact

850
00:38:09.220 --> 00:38:10.660
that everyone in the world freaked out

851
00:38:10.660 --> 00:38:12.740
that Michelle put her arm
around Queen Elizabeth,

852
00:38:12.740 --> 00:38:14.630
Queen Elizabeth was, in fact, charmed,

853
00:38:14.630 --> 00:38:16.991
very much so, by Michelle Obama.

854
00:38:16.991 --> 00:38:20.570
We saw the very famous
friendship that developed

855
00:38:20.570 --> 00:38:23.410
between Michelle Obama and George W. Bush,

856
00:38:23.410 --> 00:38:25.787
a very unlikely pairing.

857
00:38:25.787 --> 00:38:28.285
But what happened was,
Michelle was invariably

858
00:38:28.285 --> 00:38:31.230
seated by the former
President George W. Bush

859
00:38:31.230 --> 00:38:36.230
at funerals, public events, and
they got to become friendly.

860
00:38:36.723 --> 00:38:39.416
George Bush very famously
gave Michelle Obama

861
00:38:39.416 --> 00:38:43.770
a cough drop, which was
at John McCain's funeral,

862
00:38:43.770 --> 00:38:45.021
and everybody saw that.

863
00:38:45.021 --> 00:38:47.650
Actually, Michelle said
it was an old cough drop.

864
00:38:47.650 --> 00:38:48.730
It had been there a long time

865
00:38:48.730 --> 00:38:50.510
in the bottom of Laura's purse.

866
00:38:50.510 --> 00:38:54.530
But she took it, and they
became really firm friends.

867
00:38:54.530 --> 00:38:56.730
There's a lot of photographs
of them at events

868
00:38:56.730 --> 00:39:00.430
where she has her arms
around him, embracing him.

869
00:39:00.430 --> 00:39:03.477
And she has said, "I don't agree with him

870
00:39:03.477 --> 00:39:06.720
"on everything, but I have
so much love for this man."

871
00:39:06.720 --> 00:39:11.147
George W. Bush has said,
"She likes my sense of humor,

872
00:39:11.147 --> 00:39:12.767
"and anyone who likes my sense of humor,

873
00:39:12.767 --> 00:39:14.480
"I like them immediately."

874
00:39:14.480 --> 00:39:16.370
I think one of the
things Michelle has done

875
00:39:16.370 --> 00:39:19.650
so beautifully is to show that friendship

876
00:39:19.650 --> 00:39:22.460
and warmth does not have to stop

877
00:39:22.460 --> 00:39:25.040
when you come to
different political views.

878
00:39:25.040 --> 00:39:27.770
The red and blues, the
Republicans and the Democrats,

879
00:39:27.770 --> 00:39:29.360
it doesn't have to be a barrier

880
00:39:29.360 --> 00:39:32.390
to good conversation and
good will and good relations.

881
00:39:32.390 --> 00:39:34.470
And her friendship with George W. Bush

882
00:39:34.470 --> 00:39:36.270
has really embodied that.

883
00:39:36.270 --> 00:39:38.767
Michelle Obama has said
over and over again,

884
00:39:38.767 --> 00:39:40.967
"I can't ask something of our children,

885
00:39:40.967 --> 00:39:44.530
"of our future generation,
that I don't embody myself."

886
00:39:44.530 --> 00:39:47.170
This has fed into the way she acts

887
00:39:47.170 --> 00:39:50.040
all the time when it
comes to campaign tactics,

888
00:39:50.040 --> 00:39:51.950
when it comes to personal relationships,

889
00:39:51.950 --> 00:39:53.550
and when it comes to the way that she

890
00:39:53.550 --> 00:39:56.419
speaks about her political opponents.

891
00:39:56.419 --> 00:39:59.002
(gentle music)

892
00:40:06.750 --> 00:40:08.270
- [Narrator] It was clear to the world

893
00:40:08.270 --> 00:40:11.140
each and every day that
the Obama administration

894
00:40:11.140 --> 00:40:14.370
held office that the
Obamas, as the first family,

895
00:40:14.370 --> 00:40:17.053
shared an unparalleled love and closeness.

896
00:40:18.690 --> 00:40:21.770
- Michelle Obama's incredibly
close to her mother.

897
00:40:21.770 --> 00:40:23.160
She always admired her mother.

898
00:40:23.160 --> 00:40:24.809
Her mother was always there for her,

899
00:40:24.809 --> 00:40:27.350
at home cooking every meal.

900
00:40:27.350 --> 00:40:30.920
She had a really, really
idyllic upbringing.

901
00:40:30.920 --> 00:40:34.060
And this close-knit family, in some ways,

902
00:40:34.060 --> 00:40:37.195
it was something that Barack Obama lacked

903
00:40:37.195 --> 00:40:40.007
because his parents had split up

904
00:40:40.007 --> 00:40:42.088
and he moved around quite a bit.

905
00:40:42.088 --> 00:40:46.510
But I think that the
decision for Michelle's mom

906
00:40:46.510 --> 00:40:48.910
to move into the White
House with them illustrates

907
00:40:48.910 --> 00:40:50.510
how close they really are,

908
00:40:50.510 --> 00:40:52.531
how much Michelle relies on her mom

909
00:40:52.531 --> 00:40:54.700
to support her and to just be there

910
00:40:54.700 --> 00:40:57.110
for their daughters and to provide

911
00:40:57.110 --> 00:41:01.170
the family a foundation and some normalcy.

912
00:41:01.170 --> 00:41:04.023
The media even nicknamed
her the first grandmother.

913
00:41:04.920 --> 00:41:07.080
I think some families,
having your mother-in-law

914
00:41:07.080 --> 00:41:09.260
live with you wouldn't be ideal,

915
00:41:09.260 --> 00:41:13.500
but you really don't understand how close

916
00:41:13.500 --> 00:41:15.188
this family is and how supportive

917
00:41:15.188 --> 00:41:19.293
she is to their daughters but
also to Barack and Michelle.

918
00:41:20.650 --> 00:41:24.030
- And I've seen it again
and again and again

919
00:41:24.030 --> 00:41:27.727
that what our parents
told us really is true

920
00:41:27.727 --> 00:41:32.413
that if we get our education,
we can do anything.

921
00:41:33.270 --> 00:41:36.310
We can lift up ourselves to heights

922
00:41:36.310 --> 00:41:37.603
we could never imagine.

923
00:41:38.520 --> 00:41:41.130
We can pay forward all
of the love and support

924
00:41:41.130 --> 00:41:43.834
that our families have poured into us,

925
00:41:43.834 --> 00:41:47.853
and we can truly be builders of a new day.

926
00:41:49.100 --> 00:41:50.770
That is your work.

927
00:41:50.770 --> 00:41:52.770
- One of the things Michelle did,

928
00:41:52.770 --> 00:41:55.230
which was unusual, was that shortly

929
00:41:55.230 --> 00:41:56.730
after she moved into the White House

930
00:41:56.730 --> 00:41:59.520
with her girls, she moved her mother in.

931
00:41:59.520 --> 00:42:03.500
Marian Shields Robinson
became the first grandmother

932
00:42:03.500 --> 00:42:04.560
of the White House.

933
00:42:04.560 --> 00:42:07.000
For Michelle, she knew she was gonna be

934
00:42:07.000 --> 00:42:08.930
unavailable to her girls sometimes,

935
00:42:08.930 --> 00:42:10.730
whether she was accompanying Barack

936
00:42:10.730 --> 00:42:12.990
on a trip overseas or she had meetings,

937
00:42:12.990 --> 00:42:16.290
and she wanted someone
she knew and trusted

938
00:42:16.290 --> 00:42:18.680
to help her raise her daughters.

939
00:42:18.680 --> 00:42:21.380
As busy as she got, she never took her eye

940
00:42:21.380 --> 00:42:24.469
off the ball when it came
to raising Malia and Sasha.

941
00:42:24.469 --> 00:42:26.310
I think moving her mother in

942
00:42:26.310 --> 00:42:28.910
was something that families do,

943
00:42:28.910 --> 00:42:30.320
but it's not typically something

944
00:42:30.320 --> 00:42:31.470
that first families do.

945
00:42:34.465 --> 00:42:35.498
- Michelle.

946
00:42:35.498 --> 00:42:38.248
(crowd cheering)

947
00:43:05.725 --> 00:43:09.975
Michelle LaVaughn Robinson,
girl of the South Side.

948
00:43:10.963 --> 00:43:13.713
(crowd cheering)

949
00:43:17.832 --> 00:43:22.178
For the past 25 years,
you have not only been

950
00:43:22.178 --> 00:43:24.263
my wife and mother of my children,

951
00:43:24.263 --> 00:43:25.749
you have been my best friend.

952
00:43:25.749 --> 00:43:28.916
(audience applauding)

953
00:43:35.111 --> 00:43:38.017
You took on a role you didn't ask for,

954
00:43:38.017 --> 00:43:40.887
and you made it your own with grace

955
00:43:41.723 --> 00:43:44.079
and with grit and with style

956
00:43:44.079 --> 00:43:49.079
and good humor.
(audience cheering)

957
00:44:06.520 --> 00:44:09.103
(gentle music)

958
00:44:16.754 --> 00:44:20.606
You made the White House a
place that belongs to everybody.

959
00:44:20.606 --> 00:44:22.909
And a new generation
sets its sights higher

960
00:44:22.909 --> 00:44:25.621
because it has you as a role model.

961
00:44:25.621 --> 00:44:28.348
(audience cheering)

962
00:44:28.348 --> 00:44:30.235
You have made me proud.

963
00:44:30.235 --> 00:44:33.235
And you have made the country proud.

964
00:44:37.200 --> 00:44:40.367
(audience applauding)

965
00:44:45.753 --> 00:44:48.350
- Hello, everyone, and may I say

966
00:44:48.350 --> 00:44:49.830
for the last time officially,

967
00:44:49.830 --> 00:44:51.743
welcome to the White House.

968
00:44:53.780 --> 00:44:57.540
Our glorious diversity, our diversity

969
00:44:57.540 --> 00:45:00.230
of faiths and colors and creeds,

970
00:45:00.230 --> 00:45:02.830
that is not a threat to who we are.

971
00:45:02.830 --> 00:45:04.543
It makes us who we are.

972
00:45:09.930 --> 00:45:11.213
So don't be afraid.

973
00:45:12.390 --> 00:45:13.223
You hear me?

974
00:45:13.223 --> 00:45:14.530
Young people, don't be afraid.

975
00:45:14.530 --> 00:45:16.033
Be focused.

976
00:45:17.040 --> 00:45:18.740
Be determined.

977
00:45:18.740 --> 00:45:20.350
Be hopeful.

978
00:45:20.350 --> 00:45:22.320
Be empowered.

979
00:45:22.320 --> 00:45:25.260
Empower yourselves with a good education.

980
00:45:25.260 --> 00:45:27.560
Then get out there and use that education

981
00:45:27.560 --> 00:45:31.330
to build a country worthy
of your boundless promise.

982
00:45:31.330 --> 00:45:35.103
Lead by example with hope, never fear.

983
00:45:38.890 --> 00:45:40.360
- [Interviewer] If
Michelle Obama came to you

984
00:45:40.360 --> 00:45:41.880
in four, eight year's time

985
00:45:41.880 --> 00:45:46.210
or whatever and said
ambassador, well, Mr. Barzun,

986
00:45:46.210 --> 00:45:47.070
do you think I should?

987
00:45:47.070 --> 00:45:48.220
- I hope she would say Matthew.

988
00:45:48.220 --> 00:45:50.550
- [Interviewer] Matthew
(laughs) as friends.

989
00:45:50.550 --> 00:45:52.470
Maybe I should run now.

990
00:45:52.470 --> 00:45:54.372
The Democratic party needs me.

991
00:45:54.372 --> 00:45:56.060
Could you see that happening?

992
00:45:56.060 --> 00:45:59.060
- Well, two part, in that hypothetical,

993
00:45:59.060 --> 00:46:00.870
I guess I'm not supposed to
really answer hypotheticals.

994
00:46:00.870 --> 00:46:02.460
It's such a happy and fun one,

995
00:46:02.460 --> 00:46:03.360
I would be thrilled.

996
00:46:03.360 --> 00:46:05.990
Although, my boss, her husband,

997
00:46:05.990 --> 00:46:08.670
went on the record a few weeks back

998
00:46:08.670 --> 00:46:10.859
sort of categorically ruling out

999
00:46:10.859 --> 00:46:13.090
her desire to run for public office.

1000
00:46:13.090 --> 00:46:14.513
So I don't want you--
- We had that from Hillary

1001
00:46:14.513 --> 00:46:15.760
Clinton a few years back.

1002
00:46:15.760 --> 00:46:17.840
- Well, okay, I don't
wanna preempt my boss,

1003
00:46:17.840 --> 00:46:21.640
but I am a huge fan, and I
think that is not unique to me.

1004
00:46:21.640 --> 00:46:23.410
Many Americans from both parties,

1005
00:46:23.410 --> 00:46:24.350
people around the world.

1006
00:46:24.350 --> 00:46:26.490
Certainly I hear it a
lot in the United Kingdom

1007
00:46:26.490 --> 00:46:28.004
and when she came here for that visit

1008
00:46:28.004 --> 00:46:29.730
with the Mulberry School for Girls.

1009
00:46:29.730 --> 00:46:33.060
She is an incredible, powerful leader,

1010
00:46:33.060 --> 00:46:34.363
and I'm a big fan.

1011
00:46:34.363 --> 00:46:37.710
(gentle music)

1012
00:46:37.710 --> 00:46:40.357
- I wanna close today by
simply saying thank you.

1013
00:46:41.500 --> 00:46:44.130
Thank you for everything
you do for our kids

1014
00:46:44.130 --> 00:46:45.233
and for our country.

1015
00:46:46.450 --> 00:46:48.410
Being your first lady
has been the greatest

1016
00:46:48.410 --> 00:46:51.990
honor of my life, and I
hope I've made you proud.

1017
00:46:51.990 --> 00:46:53.368
- Thank you.
- Yes.

1018
00:46:53.368 --> 00:46:56.577
(audience applauding)

1019
00:46:56.577 --> 00:46:57.410
- [Narrator] The political
landscape of the United States

1020
00:46:57.410 --> 00:46:58.517
has shifted dramatically since the days

1021
00:47:02.900 --> 00:47:04.600
of the Obama administration.

1022
00:47:04.600 --> 00:47:07.680
But nonetheless, the
impact of the work achieved

1023
00:47:07.680 --> 00:47:10.190
by first lady Michelle Obama has remained

1024
00:47:10.190 --> 00:47:12.380
alive in the many hearts and minds

1025
00:47:12.380 --> 00:47:14.363
she worked so hard to inspire.

1026
00:47:15.410 --> 00:47:18.220
- There's tremendous
nostalgia for the Obamas.

1027
00:47:18.220 --> 00:47:20.510
Look what the U.S. is
dealing with at the moment.

1028
00:47:20.510 --> 00:47:23.750
It's just complete government disarray,

1029
00:47:23.750 --> 00:47:28.510
investigations, disunity, polarization.

1030
00:47:28.510 --> 00:47:30.970
It's very stressful for
most Americans today

1031
00:47:30.970 --> 00:47:34.690
in dealing with the
current administration.

1032
00:47:34.690 --> 00:47:36.470
This is even though the U.S. economy

1033
00:47:36.470 --> 00:47:38.513
is actually doing fairly well.

1034
00:47:39.381 --> 00:47:43.640
As a result, a lot of Americans are really

1035
00:47:43.640 --> 00:47:45.510
nostalgic about the Obamas.

1036
00:47:45.510 --> 00:47:47.859
Those that were probably
a little bit too critical

1037
00:47:47.859 --> 00:47:51.670
of the Obamas, either on
the left or on the right,

1038
00:47:51.670 --> 00:47:54.383
at least recognize that it was a period

1039
00:47:54.383 --> 00:47:58.790
of direction, calm, prudency,

1040
00:47:58.790 --> 00:48:01.550
where the U.S. could say that they

1041
00:48:01.550 --> 00:48:03.424
were a world leader, that they held

1042
00:48:03.424 --> 00:48:05.710
some moral high ground.

1043
00:48:05.710 --> 00:48:08.228
I think as we move on into this new era,

1044
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a period of politics
that is more polarized

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00:48:11.500 --> 00:48:13.850
than ever, you're seeing the need

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00:48:13.850 --> 00:48:18.810
for a type of chief executive who can

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00:48:18.810 --> 00:48:21.240
comfort people, who can unite people,

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00:48:21.240 --> 00:48:24.450
who's articulate, who's educated,

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00:48:24.450 --> 00:48:26.270
who knows how to say the right things

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00:48:26.270 --> 00:48:30.484
in the right moments and
doesn't try to divide us.

1051
00:48:30.484 --> 00:48:33.651
(gentle guitar music)

1052
00:48:43.860 --> 00:48:47.010
You have someone who is
incredibly ambitious,

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00:48:47.010 --> 00:48:50.320
successful, hardworking, she balances

1054
00:48:50.320 --> 00:48:53.180
with also being very maternal, very warm,

1055
00:48:53.180 --> 00:48:55.650
very caring, very real.

1056
00:48:55.650 --> 00:49:00.650
She was very civic minded
but hated politics.

1057
00:49:00.740 --> 00:49:05.740
She was very authentic,
very frank and honest,

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00:49:06.453 --> 00:49:09.410
had a very strong strength of character,

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00:49:09.410 --> 00:49:11.103
very strong moral character.

1060
00:49:12.110 --> 00:49:15.570
She was assertive when she needed to be,

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00:49:15.570 --> 00:49:18.800
but she's also savvy to
know when she needed to

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00:49:18.800 --> 00:49:20.740
take a supporting role.

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00:49:20.740 --> 00:49:22.380
She had a very wholesome upbringing,

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00:49:22.380 --> 00:49:24.270
and she carried that on
into the White House,

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00:49:24.270 --> 00:49:25.840
ensuring that her kids had the same

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00:49:25.840 --> 00:49:28.210
type of upbringing, albeit how strange

1067
00:49:28.210 --> 00:49:30.840
it must've been to be growing
up in the White House.

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00:49:30.840 --> 00:49:33.240
She was a rock for Barack.

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00:49:33.240 --> 00:49:34.930
She was one of the most popular

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00:49:34.930 --> 00:49:37.400
first ladies in U.S. history.

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00:49:37.400 --> 00:49:40.760
(gentle music)

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00:49:40.760 --> 00:49:42.520
- The most important thing for you to do

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is to be able to pick
yourself up when you fall

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because most of life is falling.

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And the real challenge is
how do you get back up.

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- [Narrator] First lady was
never a role she expected,

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but no one can say it wasn't a role

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she made wholly her own.

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Her continued popularity is evidenced

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by the international
success of her autobiography

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"Becoming Michelle Obama."

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She is testament to
her ethos of self love,

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hard work and family

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that an African American
girl from a working class

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background on the South Side of Chicago

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can become one of the most important

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and magnetic voices of the 21st century.

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- Part of the way we understood people

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and developed empathy was
really because our parents

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had a keen sense of people and
context and human behavior.

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- [Man] I don't know if
she wrote this in there,

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but she didn't have a
whole lotta boyfriends.

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- I did too.
(audience laughing)

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- He knew, and so I was like

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00:50:55.510 --> 00:50:56.970
I can't take him to play with me.

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00:50:56.970 --> 00:50:58.778
I play with real dudes.

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00:50:58.778 --> 00:50:59.795
(audience laughing)

1098
00:50:59.795 --> 00:51:01.430
(drowned out by laughing)

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And she said, "Come on, please, can't you?

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"Don't you have some guys
you could take him with?"

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I was like all right.

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00:51:08.200 --> 00:51:10.060
So I take him to play,

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00:51:10.060 --> 00:51:13.813
and to make a long story
short, this is what he did.

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He shot the ball when he shoulda shot it.

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00:51:17.570 --> 00:51:20.050
He passed when he should pass.

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00:51:20.050 --> 00:51:22.900
He didn't call fouls all the time

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like some of you guys do out there

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(audience laughing)

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who I hate playin' with.

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But most of all, he didn't
just pass me the ball

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'cause I was Michelle's brother,

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and that told me a lot.

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That told me a lot about him as a person,

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so I reported that back to Dad

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00:51:41.974 --> 00:51:43.620
(audience laughing)

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before I told her.

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And that helped sort of grease the skids

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for him to come on in.

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00:51:49.373 --> 00:51:51.837
(audience laughing)

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00:51:51.837 --> 00:51:54.050
(gentle music)

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- Those kids would be drinking kegs.

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00:51:56.220 --> 00:51:59.260
I hadn't heard about a keg
until I got to Princeton,

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and then you'd smell it every weekend,

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all up and down the
hallway, beer everywhere.

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We weren't really drinkin' beer.

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Black kids just wanted to dance.

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00:52:06.620 --> 00:52:08.660
They wanted to party.

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Maybe do a little somethin' somethin'.

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00:52:10.118 --> 00:52:10.951
(drowned out by laughter)

1130
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(audience laughing)

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Everybody went oh because he
didn't know what that was.

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- [Woman] Yes he does.

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Yes he does, Michelle.

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00:52:18.337 --> 00:52:21.207
(audience laughing)

1135
00:52:21.207 --> 00:52:24.207
(drowned out by laughing)

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- I'm the good kid.

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(audience laughing)

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- We're gonna go to the next slide.

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(audience laughing)

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(upbeat music)