When he said goodbye to the nation as President, Barack Obama paid tribute to his wife.
“And a new generation sets its sights higher, because it has you as a role model.”
Obama was then a summer associate who was working to finish his degree at Harvard Law School.
This is completely tacky."
The former president remembers things a bit differently.
I remember being struck by how tall and beautiful she was," he toldOprah.com.
“I asked her out.
‘I’m your adviser,'” she said.
‘It’s not appropriate.’
Finally, I offered to quit my job, and at last she relented.
I kissed her, and it tasted like chocolate."
“He made an argument out of it [marriage]… On anInstagrampost to mark their 25th anniversary, it seems their wedding day was just as memorable.
I can’t imagine going on this wild ride with anybody else.”
Because I was like, ‘I’m perfect.’
I was like, ‘Dr.
X, kindly fix him,.
And then, our counselor looked over at me.
I was like, ‘What are you looking at?
I’m perfect.'"
As she put it toElle: “I was mad.
When you get married and have kids, your whole plan, once again, gets upended.
Barack Obama taught me how to swerve.
But his swerving sort of you know, I’m flailing in the wind.
He had this wonderful optimism about time.
He thought there was way more of it than there really was.”
“We went through a tough time, we did some hard things together.
He’s still the man I fell in love with.”
