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Barbara Walters, ABC News: "What is your biggest peeve of each other?" President Obama: "I don't have one." Walters: "Aww." Michelle Obama: "My list is too long."

They celebrate their 18th wedding anniversary this weekend but will also host a retreat for Cabinet members and their families Sunday.

A recurring theme of the Obama White House is "sacrifice." The president has repeatedly stressed the need for us to tighten our belts. He has informed us, "We can't drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times ..." During the campaign, his wife told us that we have to compromise and sacrifice for one another in order to get things done. Shortly after the election, the president said that "[e]verybody's going to have to give. Everybody's going to have to have some skin in the game." This emphasis...

Barack and Michelle Obama: Mr&Mrs show irks voters As political woes mount, not all have been won over by the first couple’s intimate revelations Tony Allen-Mills in Washington With difficult state elections and a crucial military decision looming, President Barack Obama sat down with his wife Michelle last month to give an in-depth magazine interview about a subject that has hitherto not ranked highly on the White House political agenda — the state of the first couple’s marriage. The president used the occasion to complain that when he recently hopped aboard Air Force One to fly his wife to New...

They may not be on center stage, but voters' view of them colors impressions of the candidates. DES MOINES, Iowa – Is your spouse an asset or a liability? Presidential contenders hope for the first and live in fear of the second.With the Iowa caucuses, the first contests to determine which Republican and Democrat will face off for president in November, set for Thursday, most of the wives – and one prominent husband – are there now and on their best behavior. They're at the candidates' sides or making stops as surrogates in other locations. Here's a look at how...

  Once in a while in life, it really does happen. Once in a while romance and reality meet head on, sparks fly, and an eternal flame of love is ignited. In Midland Texas late in the summer of 1977, that is precisely what happened to a certain couple who now live…. not in Texas, but at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., and who will be celebrating their 25th anniversary tomorrow. Twenty five years ago last August a wonderful love story began that continues to this day. George Walker Bush met Laura Lane Welch at a barbecue given by good friends....