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Does Mrs. Obama have an unprecedented number of staffers in a time when 34 million Americans - a record number - rely on food stamps to feed their families.
The answer, as DAngelo Gore of factcheck.org discovered, is yes.
When questioned by Mr. Gore, Katie McCormick Lelyveld, Michelle Obamas press secretary, said that the First Lady does retain a staff of more than twenty who remain at her beck and call. But the actual number is 24, not 22, as the article reported.
Mrs. Lelyyeld failed to provide the names of the two additional attendants to Mrs. Obama. But she did confirm that six staffers who do not have first lady in their title but are a part of the First Ladys office staff, such as Desiree Rogers, who bears the title Special Assistant to the President and White House Social Secretary, and Natalie Bookey, who is listed as a staff assistant.
Whats more, even a list of 24 would be incomplete since it would fail to include the names of makeup artist Ingrid Grimes-Miles, 49, and First Hairstylist Johnny Wright, 31, both of whom traveled aboard Air Force One and provide Mrs. Obama with daily attention.