Barack Obama said that his two daughters were told by his wife Michelle Obama not to pursue a life in politics. Obama told ...

she once told Oprah Winfrey in a podcast ... Images “‘I’ve met him once. I know Michelle more than him,” she said. In a 2017 biography of Obama by the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer David ...

Still, Obama has emphasized before that every engagement is better with his wife by his side. “I couldn't have done anything that I've done without Michelle,” he told Oprah Winfrey in 2011.