Senate in , Sasha attended the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools and kept busy with piano, tennis, gymnastics and tap dance lessons. By , Sasha was on her way to becoming a national figure as her ambitious father campaigned for the U.
She made an early television appearance in July as part of an Access Hollywood segment on the candidate's family, though her parents later regretted including their children in the interview. When Barack was elected the 44th U. Kennedy Jr. After receiving a personal tour of their new home from the outgoing presidential daughters, Jenna and Barbara Bush , Sasha and Malia settled into life in the Executive Mansion under the watch of their maternal grandmother, Marian Robinson.
The president and first lady fulfilled a campaign promise by gifting their daughters a Portuguese Water Dog named Bo and later a second one named Sunny , and set a series of ground rules that included limited TV time and no Facebook. Largely sheltered from the media, and carefully guarded by the Secret Service agents who assigned her the code name of "Rosebud," Sasha enjoyed normal childhood activities like sleepovers and class trips and forged a close friendship with Maisy Biden, the granddaughter of then-vice president Joe Biden.
Still, she was occasionally included in official presidential business, from the August photo op that sought to portray the Gulf of Mexico as safe following the BP oil spill, to the international trips that brought her to the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, and the Vatican in Rome, Italy. According to Michelle's memoir Becoming , Sasha began asserting more of an independent personality by the start of her father's second term; no longer eager to join traditional White House events like the annual pardoning of the Thanksgiving turkey, she became a devotee of cooking shows and "commandeered" the White House residence kitchen with her friends.
Sasha took part in her first State Dinner in March , after which she was photographed getting a thumbs-up from Malia as she chatted with heartthrob actor Ryan Reynolds , and she landed her first job at a popular Martha's Vineyard seafood restaurant that summer.
Unlike Malia, who was enjoying a break from her studies before entering Harvard University, a year-old Sasha was too young to head out on her own at the close of her father's administration in , so she moved with her parents to another neighborhood in Washington, D. After a January jaunt to Miami Beach with Maisy, Sasha enjoyed an Indonesian vacation that summer with the rest of her family.
She attended the spring Broccoli City Festival in D. Sasha became a competitive swimmer at Sidwell but especially took to basketball; President Obama famously helped coach his younger daughter's hoops team to a league title during the school year, before the negative attention from other parents forced him to step aside.
In a heartwarming open letter to Sasha and Malia Obama, former first daughters Barbara Bush and Jenna Bush Hager shared a bit of advice to the girls as they join "another rarified club, one of former First Children". It was one of the more emotional moments of President Barack Obama's farewell address.
His eyes swelling with tears, he spoke of his wife, "Michelle LaVaughn Robinson of the South Side," and then, of his pride in their two daughters, Malia and Sasha. Outgoing US President Barack Obama's elder daughter Malia was moved to tears as her father dedicated several minutes of his farewell address in Chicago to thank his wife Michelle Obama and his daughters Malia and Sasha for their contribution during his tenure. More News ». Daughter Malia has cell phone now, gets calls from boys: Obama.
Your search did not match any documents. Listen to the latest songs , only on JioSaavn. Former President Barack Obama doesn't see his daughters getting into the family business. Malia, 22, and Sasha, 19, spent eight years of their life in the White House starting at ages 10 and 7.
He says their young ages during his two terms may have been too traumatic for them to ever return. Obama said his daughters would have to have a "tolerance for nonsense and silliness and meanness" to take on the job of president, but he said he would still be proud of them if they decided to run for office.
I think they are probably going to find other ways to serve rather than run for office themselves," he said.
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