Large Staff Helps First Lady Do Her Job: ; Michelle Obama has 24 People at Cost of More Than $1.5 Million

Charleston Daily Mail › October 06, 2009

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PITTSBURGH - One by one, gleaming motorcades pulled up outside of a white-columned home on a farm just outside this city, each depositing the wife of a foreign leader here for an economic summit. Inside, Michelle Obama waited for her first turn as international hostess.

It was up to her to show a good time to counterparts from around the globe while President Barack Obama and the other world leaders debated the world's fiscal mess.

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Large Staff Helps First Lady Do Her Job: ; Michelle Obama has 24 People at Cost of More Than $1.5 Million

Guests were led to a patio of the home, owned by Teresa Heinz Kerry, the local philanthropist and wife of Sen. John Kerry, D- Mass., the former Democratic presidential candidate. She was eager to make her Rosemont Farm available for the occasion. More than 20 women in all, including Heinz Kerry, ate di...

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