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- Sasha Obama could be the deciding factor in whether her father stays
in Washington after he leaves office. President Barack Obama told ABC
News in a taped interview that his now 12-year-old daughter “will have a
big say in where we are.
Obama: Sasha has ‘big say’ where family will live after presidency
November 29, 2013 1:02PM
First lady Michelle Obama with her daughters Malia, center, and Sasha.
Updated: November 29, 2013 5:43PM
WASHINGTON — Sasha Obama could be the deciding factor in whether her father stays in Washington after he leaves office.
President Barack Obama told
ABC News in a taped interview that his now 12-year-old daughter “will
have a big say in where we are.”
When
Obama leaves office in January 2017 after two terms, eldest daughter
Malia could be off in college and Sasha will be a sophomore in high
school. Both girls attend the exclusive Sidwell Friends School in
northwest Washington.
Obama said he and his wife, Michelle, have to make sure Sasha is doing well until she goes off to college.
He suggested that no decisions
have been made. But he did hint that tearing Sasha away from her
friends might be asking too much, saying his wife and daughters already
have made “a lot of sacrifices on behalf of my cockamamie ideas, the
running for office and things.”
In another portion of the
interview, which is scheduled to air Friday night on ABC’s “20/20,”
Michelle Obama says she tries not to tell her husband what to do because
“he’s got enough people in his ear.”
“I try to stay out of his ear,” she said.
Michelle Obama says she and
the president treat their living quarters on the second floor of the
White House like a sanctuary, particularly when their girls are home.
She says the girls like to talk about their day, which often has little
to do with what’s going on in the rest of the world.
“Everyone has to have their safe haven, a place of peace and calm and, you know, that’s home for us,” the first lady said.
AP
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