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Michelle Obama Adds India Trip, State Dinner for China to Calendar
By Lynn Sweet - Politics DailyNot to be lost in the bigger news from the G-8 and G-20 summits in Canada is a peek at what First Lady Michelle Obama has in store in the coming months: President Obama announced he will be taking his family to India, probably in November, and the East Wing will be busy planning its third state dinner, for Chinese President Hu Jintao later this year. Also, Obama said he is determined to make a trip to Indonesia with the family -- so far postponed two times. After a meeting with Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono in Toronto Sunday, Obama said, "I'm confident that we are going to ...
Michelle Obama Hears Immigration Plea From Girl Worried About Deportations
By Lynn Sweet - Politics DailyFirst lady Michelle Obama and Margarita Zavala, the wife of President Felipe Calderon of Mexico, were visiting a Washington-area elementary school Wednesday when they heard unexpectedly from a little girl worried that some people -- maybe, just maybe even the youth's mother -- could face deportation one day. It was an extraordinary moment. The child told Mrs. Obama, "My mom said -- my mom said that -- I think that she says that Barack Obama is taking everybody away that doesn't have papers." Replied Mrs. Obama, "Yeah, well, that's something that we have to work on, right? To make sure that ...
Drug Wars: U.S., Mexico Wrestle With Violence
By Lynn Sweet - Politics DailyMEXICO CITY -- At the Santa Fe Mall, the largest retail center in Mexico, families are shopping and diners are mingling in the food court. Outside the sun is shining on a beautiful spring day. The jacaranda trees are flowering, filling some of the avenues of this city with a lilac glow. Michelle Obama will fly here the next day and her motorcade will shut down avenues. But the only real disruptions before her arrival were street closings on a pleasant Sunday that allowed thousands of bicyclists to peddle unimpeded through tree-lined thoroughfares. These wholesome scenes are snapshots of ...
Michelle Obama's 40 Hours in Mexico: Collecting and Sharing Stories
By Lynn Sweet - Politics DailyMEXICO CITY -- "Thank you for allowing me to use your stories," First Lady Michelle Obama told the dozen student leaders seated around her at a big rectangular table. It was Thursday morning at a beautiful event site, a 16th-century former Spanish hacienda, a reminder of this nation's colonial era. Each of the students had a personal, passionate story to tell Mrs. Obama. The six men and six women, from different parts of the country, were picked by the U.S. Embassy in Mexico to come to the capital for a roundtable discussion. A State Department translator sat next to Mrs. Obama whispering ...
Michelle Obama Tests Her Appeal to Mexico's Young People
By Lynn Sweet - Politics DailyMEXICO CITY -- If the young people listening could not find inspiration in her life, then First Lady Michelle Obama cited others in her speech here Wednesday -- Benito Juarez, Abraham Lincoln, Joan of Arc, Mahatma Gandhi, Nelson Mandela and even Mother Teresa -- to make the point that people can make a difference. Mrs. Obama's roll call came on the second day of her first solo international swing, and she was speaking -- slowly -- to some 3,000 area high school and college students invited to the speech at the Universidad Iberoamericana, a Jesuit institution in the Santa Fe part of town that ...
Michelle Obama Makes Surprise Haiti Visit to Support Humanitarian Effort
By Lynn Sweet - Politics DailyMEXICO CITY -- First Lady Michelle Obama made a surprise stop in earthquake-ravaged Haiti on Tuesday morning en route to Mexico, on an added leg of her first solo diplomatic mission. Joining her was Jill Biden, the wife of the vice president. Mrs. Obama's visit to Haiti, expected to last only a few hours, was a closely guarded East Wing secret. The purpose of the stop is to support humanitarian efforts there, an East Wing spokesman said. Upon landing, the White House released a statement: "First lady Michelle Obama and Dr. Jill Biden are visiting Haiti to underscore to the Haitian people ...
Michelle Obama Debuts Solo Diplomacy in Mexico City
By Lynn Sweet - Politics DailyFirst Lady Michelle Obama flies to Mexico City on Tuesday for her first solo official international trip, which will include events with youths, women, and dinner with Mexican President Felipe Calderon and his wife, Margarita Zavala. That dinner will be at Los Pinos, the official Mexican presidential residence. President Obama and Mrs. Obama will reciprocate on a grand scale when they host a state dinner for Calderon and Mrs. Zavala at the White House on May 19. Mrs. Obama has never been to Mexico, and the Tuesday-Thursday visit will draw enormous interest. "It will be on the front pages ...
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