It's my window, but I don't own the view.In trying to get a sense of what Michelle's new life might be like, I called Ann Walker Marchant, who was a communications adviser in the Clinton administration. She recalled for me a moment when she and her roommate, Capricia Marshall, the White House social secretary, received an urgent 4 a.m. call from the White House usher's office. Mrs. Clinton, it seemed, had risen early and gone to the kitchen to make some eggs.
"Everybody was freaking out," Marchant said. "'She's in the kitchen! She's in her bathrobe. Should we go in? What should we do?' One minute you're out there campaigning and then, all of a sudden, you're there and you want to make some eggs and people are making phone calls about it."
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What An African Woman Thinks
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So You Want to Be Famous? Posted: November 10th, 2008, 11:19pm EST
I was over at The Root, reading Kim McLarin’s piece on Michelle Obama, the First lady of the United States and this anecdote told to her by some former Clinton staffers caught me by surprise and made me laugh out loud and pity the first lady all at once: