Happy Anniversary to the Obamas, thanks for teaching us everything we know about love and reminding us that the road to true love can get bumpy.
"It was a cool date, actually," Michelle said decades later in a White House promotional video."We spent the whole day together. He was showing me all facets of his character. He showed his cultural side, and then we took a nice long walk down Michigan Avenue."It was Newton Minow and his wife who saw young Barack and Michelle at the movie theater that night."She had all these little facts about him," Mary Carragher, who also worked at Sidley Austin, told the paper.
"Before I met Michelle, I was too immature to hold something like that together," Obama told Mendell, who notes that before Harvard, when he was working in Chicago as a community organizer, the future president had a serious girlfriend and a cat, but they had long since amiably parted ways.In his own memoirs written before he became president, Obama referred to a"compression" of girlfriends he had before meeting Michelle.
In the spring of 1985, 25-year-old Barack Obama met Sheila Miyoshi Jager, a PhD student at University of Chicago—referred to in Maraniss' book only as"the Chicago anthropologist"—through mutual friends."This relationship ended much like the one with Genevieve, when Obama was ready to make his next career move," Maraniss wrote.Rising Star: The Making of Barack ObamaWell, first they moved in together in October 1986, into a $450-a-month apartment on South Harper Avenue.
Influenced by her parents—her mom liked Barack but thought her too young; her dad didn't think the young man worthy—she said"'not yet.'"In early 1987, Jager told Garrow, she witnessed her boyfriend becoming"someone quite extraordinary" after starting out, to her,"quite ordinary." At the time,"he already had his sights on becoming president.
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