Becoming

T face pressed up against the window of the SUV and was staring outward, wide- eyed and pensive, taking in ...

take when they saw them, but everyone was nice. Each day afterward, the motorcade ride to ...

M y whole family came for the inauguration. My aunts, uncles, and cousins came. Our friends from Hyde P ...

forever remember how many people stood outside for many more hours than I did, convinced it was w ...

M important. Almost exactly at noon that day, we stood before the country with our two girls. I remember ...

stepped out to walk a short stretch of the parade route and wave to the public, Malia and Sasha stayed ...

The kids had already headed to another part of the house for their evening of fun. My mom, Craig, and Maya ...

As the hour got late, however, I could feel myself starting to sag. The best part of the evening was ...

P 20 eople ask what it’s like to live in the White House. I sometimes say that it’s a bit like w ...

sweatpants, blessedly out of sight of everyone. I understood how lucky we were to be living this way. Th ...

I nutrition, and a handful of grocery shoppers who safeguarded us from any sort of food sabotage by making ...

meal, even if he often had to go right back down to the Oval Office afterward. My mother sometimes j ...

I When it came to the day-to-day lives of our girls, I often had to rely on young staffers ...

For me, these social events could feel like distractions from what I hoped would be more impa ...

Planting a garden at the White House was my response to this problem, and I hoped it would signal ...

This was on my mind during the evening of February 24, when Barack addressed a joint sess ...

W seated through most of it, appearing obstinate and angry, their arms folded and their frowns delib ...

I’ the butlers cared about politics, if they had private allegiances to one party or another, t ...

president on the world stage. And as was often the case during those first months in office, his main ...

told things like “This is our Blue Room,” our guide gesturing into a vast hall that was five tim ...