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Michelle Obama talk tests, mentoring in Denver (AP)

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 22:58:25 +0000

AP - First lady Michelle Obama doesn't put much stock in standardized tests.

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Michelle Obama on mentoring

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 20:30:00 +0000

From NBC's Wendy Jones Introduced by the First Lady of Colorado ( Jeannie Ritter ), Michelle Obama addressed a group of young women at a luncheon in Denver, part of the White House initiatve on mentoring. In her opening remarks, Ritter told her audience that "as young women you also have to be ready to accept that mentoring ... and you have to have done some interior work about what your strengths are." Obama noted that there were many successful women in the room -- cabinet secretaries, CEOs, a former ambassador, an astronaut. But, she cautioned, "They didn't get to this stage because of some magic." Like her, some came from modest backgrounds. All worked hard. Said the First Lady: "We've all found someone who told us we were not good enough .... We've all failed, all made mistakes ... but we did not let those mistakes shatter us .... That is what you can learn from the women in this room .... Everything you need to be successful you own." ...( read more )

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FLOTUS to Denver to tout mentoring

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 02:07:24 +0000

First Lady Michelle Obama will take her mentoring program on the road Monday.

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Michelle talks health care for women

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 22:52:24 +0000

First Lady Michelle Obama targeted another key constituency in the health care debate Friday.

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Mrs. Obama: health overhaul will help older women (AP)

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 21:42:24 +0000

AP - First lady Michelle Obama sought to assure older women on Friday that efforts to overhaul health care won't undercut the benefits they receive through Medicare, saying her husband considers the government-run program a "sacred part of America's social safety net."

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Mrs. Obama says veterans' skills can help at home (AP)

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 03:47:09 +0000

AP - First lady Michelle Obama said on Wednesday that many veterans want to serve their communities and nation in ways that "make their entire life a tour of duty."

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First lady, Dr. Biden honor veterans

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 23:43:00 +0000

From NBC's Kelly Paice On this Veterans Day, First Lady Michelle Obama and Dr. Jill Biden joined ServiceNation to express their support and gratitude for the nation's veterans, servicemembers, and their families. They also helped inaugurate the launch of ServiceNation's Mission Serve initiative that works to partner civilian and military service organizations across the country. More than 50 organizations -- including Blue Star Families, Big Brothers and Big Sisters, Give an Hour, and Student Veterans of America -- have come together on a mission to serve, offering the opportunity to bridge the gap from military to civilian life for returning servicemembers by allowing them to apply their military skills to civilian service. Veteran and Chairman of Mission Serve Col. (Ret.) Robert Gordon described the initiative as "meaningfully integrating service to country with service to community." Mrs. Obama expressed her appreciation for America's military servicemembers, saying: "One of the ...

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NH parents get condolences from Obama at Arlington

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 22:57:01 +0000

The president and first lady made a surprise visit on Veterans Day to Section 60 of Arlington National Cemetery, where the war dead from Afghanistan and Iraq are buried. (Photo Credit: Getty Images) Washington (CNN) - Skip and Rhonda Rollins were visiting the gravesite of their son Justin at Arlington National Cemetery Veterans Day when they received condolences from unexpected visitors - President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama. After making remarks at the Arlington's annual National Veterans Day Observance, the president made a surprise visit to Section 60 of the cemetery, where the war dead from Afghanistan and Iraq are buried. Obama spoke with families, visited gravesites, and shook the hands of visiting veterans. The visit came just before he headed back to the White House to preside over what could be one of his last meetings with top advisers before he decides whether to send more troops to Afghanistan. The Rollins' son Justin, who would have turned 25 years old the day ...

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Rihanna joins Michelle Obama as "Women of Year" (Reuters)

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 02:18:39 +0000

Reuters - Rihanna joined U.S. first lady Michelle Obama, British fashion designer Stella McCartney and nine others on Monday to be honored as "Women of the Year" after the R&B; singer took a public stand on domestic violence.

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Polls take Michelle Obama's measure

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:02:42 +0000

Her favorability rating peaked at 72 percent in March but slid to 61 percent in a recent Gallup Poll.

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Obama to speak at Fort Hood memorial, meet with victims' families

Mon, 9 Nov 2009 21:17:47 +0000

WASHINGTON (CNN) – President Barack Obama will speak at Tuesday's memorial service for the shooting victims at Fort Hood Army Post in Texas, and will meet with victims' families, his spokesman said. "The president will meet with families of those that lost a loved one last week, as well as speak to the larger memorial that will take place at the base," White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said in his daily briefing Monday. First lady Michelle Obama will accompany the president on the trip, Gibbs said.

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WH: President, first lady to attend Fort Hood memorial service

Sat, 7 Nov 2009 20:37:25 +0000

Fort Hood, Texas (CNN) - As investigators at Fort Hood meticulously probed Thursday's grisly massacre, a Texas surgeon said more of the wounded victims of the shootings were slowly but surely on the mend. Flanked by Texas Gov. Rick Perry and two state representatives, W. Roy Smythe, chief of surgery at Scott & White Memorial Hospital, said "a lot of progress has been made" in treating patients wounded in the rampage and that "some of them are out of the woods." But Smythe told reporters in a Saturday news conference there is a possibility some patients will be "physically impaired" for life. And, he said, there's "no doubt many" will be "psychologically impaired the rest of their lives." Thursday's mass shooting left 12 soldiers and one civilian dead and 38 others wounded at the Fort Hood Army Post in Texas. Thirty-four of the injured had gunshot wounds, military officials said. The suspect in the shooting, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, a licensed Army psychiatrist, was among the two dozen ...

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