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Michelle Obama’s Staff

Posted on August 5, 2009

Q: Does First Lady Michelle Obama have an “unprecedented” number of staffers? A: A spokeswoman for the first lady says that Michelle Obama currently has a staff of 24. That may indeed be the largest of any first lady, but Hillary Clinton, with 19 staffers, and Laura Bush with at …
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Michelle Obama’s Salary

Posted on May 17, 2009

Q: Did Michelle Obama make $317,000 a year while working part-time at the University of Chicago Medical Center? A: This allegation in a chain e-mail is wrong: Obama’s reported income was $103,633 in 2007, the year she reduced her work schedule to part time.

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