Michelle Obama
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Michelle Obama...was assigned to mentor him while he was a summer associate. Their relationship started with a business lunch and then a community organization meeting where he first impressed her. <ref name=MOHSMOMF/> The couple's first date was to the Spike... In this article: Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Laura Bush, University of Chicago Laboratory Schools, Chicago, Barack Obama, University of Chicago Medical Center, and Harvard |
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washingtonpost.com | June 20, 2009
A Milestone Worth a Big To-'Do'
A Milestone Worth a Big To-'Do' Twenty years ago, Barack Obama and Michelle Robinson took in Spike Lee's film "Do the Right Thing" on their first date in Chicago. Now that the Obamas occupy the White House, how does the film resonate?
In this article: Spike Lee, Do the Right Thing, Michelle Robinson, Public Enemy, Barack Obama, Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn, Chicago, and White House
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The Volokh Conspiracy - - | July 11, 2009
Even Less Sunlight Before Signing:
...us open, consistent, dynamic government. It grants President Michele Obama (now in her 3rd successful term in office) all principles and powers to consider all matters and then "Do the right thing". The Congress retains the important...
In this article: White House, Cato Institute, IPod, Michele Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Jeb Bush, and George W. Bush
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NY Post: Post Opinion | June 20, 2009
WHAT SPIKE LEE DIDN'T GET 'RIGHT' ABOUT RACE AND NEW YORK CITY
...wasn't killed in cold blood. "Do the Right Thing," the movie Barack and Michelle Obama saw on their first date, is still wrong after all these years - morally, politically, even at the basic level of language. During a heated argument about...
In this article: Spike Lee, Radio Raheem, Do the Right Thing, DVD, Rodney King, New York City, Bill Nunn, and Danny Aiello
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When Michelle Met Barack
...were under a microscope. Which, in a way, they were. Before Barack and Michelle became an official item, Minow and his wife, Jo, ran into them at the popcorn stand at a movie theater. Minow is not sure, but thinks it may have been their...
In this article: Barack Obama, Sidley Austin, Harvard, Newton Minow, Craig Robinson, Chicago, and Valerie Jarrett
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Her Heart's in the Race
...and Barack went on their first date, they saw Spike Lee's "Do the Right Thing." Princeton left Michelle Robinson freshly conflicted about her own ambitions. The picture-book university, with its neo-Gothic quadrangles of carved stone and...
In this article: Barack Obama, Valerie Jarrett, University of Chicago, Craig Robinson, Chicago, Richard M. Daley, and Bobby Rush
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Denver Post Politics | August 24, 2008
Husband held to high standard - The Denver Post
...the two saw the Spike Lee movie "Do The Right Thing" and went for ice cream. A few months later, Michelle Obama asked her brother to help evaluate her new beau. "She said, 'Hey, take him to play a game of basketball and tell me what you...
In this article: Barack Obama, The Denver Post, Craig Robinson, Chicago, Chicago, Invesco, Doris Kearns Goodwin, and Denver
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Guardian Unlimited | November 08, 2008
Barack and Michelle: a Chicago love story
...McCain because he's usually too busy to remember. And when we learn that on their first date Barack and Michelle Obama saw Spike Lee's Do The Right Thing, it sounds just right that that vigorously scripted call for future unity should have...
In this article: Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton, Nancy Reagan, Chicago, Craig Robinson, and White House
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Root Magazine | June 24, 2009
The Music in Spike's Message
...and musicians trying to get their intellectual freak-on. (This apparently included Barack Obama and Michelle Robinson, two Ivy League professionals going on their first date.) The film seemingly anticipated the 1989 murder of Yusef...
In this article: Spike Lee, Do the Right Thing, Fight the Power, Rosie Perez, Brooklyn, New York City, Ivy League, Fruit of Islam, Lycra, and National Review
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chicagotribune.com - News | November 30, 2008
Affection that stands out
...an office romance would be "tacky." He offered to quit so they could see each other. Michelle finally agreed to an ice cream cone after a firm picnic. On their first official date, the couple visited the Art Institute, strolled Michigan...
In this article: Barack Obama, White House, Bill Clinton, John Kennedy, Ice cream cone, and Ivy League
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Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama (born January 17, 1964) is the wife of the forty-fourth President of the United States, Barack Obama, and is the first African-American First Lady of the United States.
Michelle Robinson was born and grew up on the South Side of Chicago. She graduated from Princeton University and Harvard Law School. After completing her formal education, she returned to Chicago and accepted a position with the law firm Sidley Austin, where she met her future husband. Subsequently, she worked as part of the staff of Chicago mayor Richard M. Daley, and for the University of Chicago Medical Center. Throughout 2007 and 2008, she helped campaign for her husband's presidential bid and delivered a keynote address at the 2008 Democratic National Convention. She is the mother of two daughters, Malia and Sasha, and is the sister of Craig Robinson, men's basketball coach at Oregon State University.
- Name At Birth:
- Michelle LaVaughn Robinson
- Birth Date:
- January 17, 1964
- Birthplace:
- Chicago, Illinois
- Religion:
- Protestant Christian
- Nationality:
- American
- Spouse:
- Barack Obama (m. 1992)
- Residence:
- The White House (official)
- University Attended:
- Occupation:
- Lawyer
- Political party:
- Democratic
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