Michelle Obama Looks Overseas in Final Years as First Lady
The first lady heads to Asia to promote the administration’s Let Girls Learn initiative.
U.S. first lady Michelle Obama speaks during an event to mark Nowruz, a holiday that is celebrated by over 300 million people in diverse ethnic and religious communities across the Middle East, Central and Southwest Asia, and Eastern Europe, March 11, 2015 in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC.
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From the “Let’s Move!” anti-obesity campaign to initiatives to boost resources for military families and get more students through college, first lady Michelle Obama has focused her agenda on Americans.
As her husband’s presidency begins to wind down, though, she’s adapting a lesson from the adage that U.S. presidents do well to turn toward foreign policy in their last years in office.