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Michelle Obama on her garden, her future and her role in 2012 campaign – USATODAY.com

Michelle Obama on her garden, her future and her role in 2012 campaign – USATODAY.com:


Michelle Obama on her garden, her future and the campaign

WASHINGTON – Michelle Obama is eager to show off the flourishing White Housevegetable garden, but she's also keeping an eye out for her two daughters to get home from school.
  • Michelle Obama and a schoolgirl work in the White House garden.
    By Brendan Smialowski, AFP/Getty Images
    Michelle Obama and a schoolgirl work in the White House garden.
By Brendan Smialowski, AFP/Getty Images
Michelle Obama and a schoolgirl work in the White House garden.

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"I just want to make sure that all of the homework that we do for the week was finished or being done," she explains, then mimics a child's assurance: "I don't have anything to do; I'm done." She rolls her eyes with a mother's skepticism.
She has been tending the White House garden with similarly determined oversight, chronicled in her first