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Obama, Michelle

Michelle Obama in Mexicoonline video

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First Lady Michelle Obama speaks to a young audience in Mexico City, April 2010.
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To make our world safer and healthier, and more prosperous and more free, we are going to need the passion and the daring and the creativity of every last one of you. We’ll need you to work as hard as you can and do as much as you can, driven by the belief that has always summed up the spirit of our youth. Three simple words: si, se puede. Yes we can, yes we can. Thank you.
Born in 1964, Michelle Robinson Obama is the first African American First Lady in U.S. history. She is married to President Barack Obama, who was sworn in as the 44th president ...

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