President Barack Obama, First Lady Michelle, and daughters Malia and Sasha wave to the crowd after his inaugural address Jan. 20, 2009, on the west steps of the U.S. Capitol.
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Political positions · Public image · Family 2008 primaries · Obama–Biden campaign
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Barack and Michelle Obama have two daughters: Malia Ann, born in 1998, and Natasha (known as Sasha) , born in 2001. Sasha is the youngest child to reside in the White House since John F. Kennedy, Jr, arrived as an infant in 1961.
Before his inauguration, President Obama published an open letter to his daughters in Parade magazine, describing what he wants for them and every child in America: "to grow up in a world with no limits on your dreams and no achievements beyond your reach, and to
grow into compassionate, committed women who will help build that world."
Michelle Obama's mother (birthname Marian Shields, born July 1937), now widowed, married Michelle's father, Fraser Robinson, in 1960. Robinson was formerly a secretary at Spiegel catalog and a bank. While Michelle and Barack Obama were campaigning in 2008, Robinson tended the Obama's young children and she intends to do the same while in Washington, DC. In January 2009 it was reported that Robinson will officially be moving into the White House itself as part of the First Family;[20] she will be the first live-in grandmother there since Elvira "Minnie" Doud during the Eisenhower administration. Some media outlets have dubbed Robinson the "First Granny".
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