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Article: 'First Granny' answers call to White House Michelle Obama's mother will leave her Chicago bungalow to help care for her two granddaughters
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- The Sunday Telegraph London
- Article date:
- November 9, 2008
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IT IS probably the most important addition to the new White House
team as America's next First Family prepares for the ultimate
domestic upheaval.
Michelle Obama's mother has agreed reluctantly to leave her
lifelong home, a modest bungalow on Chicago's South Side, and move
to Washington to help to smooth the transition for the
granddaughters who dote on her.
The nation's new First Granny is Marian Robinson, 71, a fiercely
independent figure who regularly made the 10-minute journey to the
Obama home to look after Malia, 10, and Sasha, seven, while their
parents were campaigning.
In her daughter's absence, Mrs Robinson - who just a few years
ago won the 50 and 100-metre dashes in the Illinois ...