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HALIFAX, N.S. — Opening for former First Lady Michelle Obama on Wednesday night was a bucket list item for North Preston musician Reeny Smith.Michelle is an author, lawyer and is married to the 44th American President Barack Obama .She walked on stage of the Scotiabank Centre in Halifax to Rachel Platten’s Fight Song and a standing ovation from the crowd of over 10,000. For an hour, she answered questions from moderator Dianne Kelderman, president and CEO of the Nova Scotia Co-operative Council.
Former first lady Michelle Obama greets the crowd before an interview with David Letterman during her hometown stop on tour for her new book The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times, at The Chicago Theatre on Dec. 5, 2022, in Chicago. - Michael Blackshire/Chicago Tribune She would tell her girls, “this is fine. You’re not the president. Just keep moving … and yes, there are SWAT teams on your roof because your dad is here for parent-teacher conferences,” she said. “We had to act like it wasn’t a big deal — the cameras, lights, the attention, the dinners.”
Former U.S. President Barack Obama speaks to Nova Scotia Co-operative Council CEO Dianne Kelderman at the Scotiabank Centre in Halifax on Nov. 13, 2019. - Michael CreaganMichelle had the crowd laughing with a story about the day Donald and Melania Trump took over at the White House. She said she barely got her daughter’s friends — who begged for one last sleepover in the White House — out the back door just as the Trumps arrived that morning in 2017.
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