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After a Year of Learning, the First Lady Seeks Out a Legacy
WASHINGTON — She has settled her daughters in school — and watched “the wonder in their eyes” as they met the pope and the queen of England. She has polished her image and driven her poll numbers sky high, with carefully timed interviews and magazine cover shots. She has spotlighted military families, mentored young girls and begun a national conversation on healthy eating by planting the first White House garden since Eleanor Roosevelt’s day.
Now, Michelle Obama said Wednesday, she is looking to make a deeper and more lasting policy impact, by spearheading an initiative to reduce childhood obesity that, she hopes, will create a legacy by which she can be remembered.
“Until we move the ball on something — that’s the legacy I want,” Mrs. Obama said in a wide-ranging roundtable interview with reporters for seven news organizations. “I want to leave something behind that we can say, ‘Because of this time that this person spent here, this thing has changed.’ And my hope is that that’s going to be in the area of childhood obesity.”
The effort will be the first administrationwide initiative run by Mrs. Obama, aides said, and she intends to speak to a gathering of mayors about it next week. She also expects to get invo
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WASHINGTONWASHINGTON — By any measure, it was a big scoop. Hours after becoming first lady, Eleanor Roosevelt opened up to Associated Press reporter Lorena A. Hickok about the weight the nation had placed on the shoulders of her husband and herself.
“One has a feeling of going in blindly, because we’re in a tremendous stream, and none of us knows where we’re going to land,” Roosevelt said.
Hickok’s story landed on front pages dominated by the towering developments surrounding the inauguration of a new president in the midst of a bank crisis and the Great Depression.
Hickok was taking on a weight of her own.
The night before, Roosevelt had read at least parts of her husband’s inaugural speech to Hickok as the two women had dinner alone in a Mayflower Hotel room.
“It did not even occur to me at the time, but I could have slipped out to a telephone after she read the inaugural address to me and could have given the AP the gist of it, with a few quotations,” Hickok wrote years later. “If I had, it would have been a scoop – the biggest scoop of my career.”
Instead, the AP waited with the rest of the nation to hear FDR’s famous words: “We have nothing to fear but fear itself.&r