Michelle Obama Quotes
You really don’t know what you don’t know until you’re here. [The White House]
Michelle Obama. Interview, Quoted in Time Magazine, January 23, 20017
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Alluding to the practice of advisors and handlers scripting and packaging presidential candidates for conventions and debates:
This was a very clever play on a slogan that Las Vegas was using at the time to promote tourism and gambeling: “What happens in Las Vegas stays in Las Vegas”
Played the President in the NBC Network West Wing
Alberto Gonzalez, White House Counsel and later Attorney General who was forced to resign and David S. Addington, Counsel to the Vice President, had come up with a novel view of the powers of the presidency. They argued that since the President is the Commander in Chief, in a war situation or intelligence gathering thereto, has the Constitutional responsibility for that function, he need not obey any laws of Congress as in the conduct of the war Congress would be impinging on the Constitutional separation of powers which itself was prohibited by the Constitution. The argument did not find any significant legal support but for a while the George W. Bush White House behaved as if this were the law, despite the fact that even in the American Revolution and the War of 1812 Congress passed laws regulating the conduct of the armed forces as is provided for in other parts of the Constitution. Yet even Goldsmith would allow the President some powers that many think are unconstitutional and/or belong to Congress. See {32436}.
This is a wonderful contemporaneous assessment of Abraham Lincoln in his second year of his Presidency by America’s then greatest writer. He had met with Lincoln in the midst of the war and his first few lines reflect on that interview, given Lincoln’s great responsibilities and burden.
She was politically very well educated and experienced as well. See {640707}.
This was a subtle criticism of the Presidential Candidate Donald Trump whose only experience was in real estate development, reality TV, and promotion. This was in contrast to his opponent Hillary Clinton who had had vast experience at many roles and levels of government.
Welsh met with the President on several occasions at the White House since he served on one of the major Presidential Advisory Committees.
Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama is an American attorney and author who served as the First Lady of the United States from 2009 to 2017. She was the first African-American woman to serve in this position. She is married to the 44th President of the United States, Barack Obama.
