They know that parents have to parent, that children can't achieve unless we raise their expectations and turn off the television sets and eradicate the slander that says a black youth with a book is acting white.
The first lady is trying to figure out what comes next for this self-described "mom in chief" who also is a champion of healthier eating, an advocate for military families, a fitness buff and the best-selling author of a book about her White House garden.
Would you find it easier to read a book wearing white cloth gloves?
"For a white person reading a book, they're very rarely going to go, 'I'm just assuming this is a black character' if he or she isn't marked as such, " he said.
In a pre-emptive move, the White House has distributed a briefing book to reporters, opinion makers and editorial boards across the country, containing fact sheets, copies of legal documents, and even transcripts of television programs buttressing their position.
From these discussions emerged a book of 18 white papers, a set of analyses of the origins of the problems facing our economy, as well as a set of policy recommendations.
White, author of the book "A. Lincoln: A Biography, " has lectured on Lincoln at the White House and the Library of Congress.
Virtually every member of George Bush's White House is writing a book.
Does the White House have a view on this book by a Navy SEAL who is going to come out and talk about the bin Laden raid?
In that case, it is better to save those messages for a speech, when you have a captive audience, a white paper for your web site, an op-ed column, or even a book or special report.
The mission was written about in a bestselling book, Vulcan 607, by Roland White and is an example of why the Vulcans are so popular.
Just thinking about him with a book in one hand and a huge grin on his white-bearded face made me smile.
As Bob Woodward illustrates in his new book, "The War Within: A Secret White House History 2006-2008, " it also resonates among many senior uniformed military officers.
The White House should take a leaf from Ronald and Nancy Reagan's book.
In addition to teaching, he also plans a book and some television work following his formal departure from the White House.
However, she later criticized the White House treatment of Foster's death as suspicious in a 1994 book proposal reported in the New York Times.
Yet the questions began again this week after former White House chief of staff Andrew Card confirmed an account in a new book by the Washington Post's Bob Woodward that Card had discussed replacing Rumsfeld with President Bush and First Lady Laura Bush.
White House officials tried to portray Clarke as a disgruntled former employee with a book to sell, releasing earlier statements and documents they say undercut his credibility.
Clark, in fact, has a far wider audience than just the skater kids that are his subjects, owing to his early success as a photographer of raw black and white pictures of young drug users in his groundbreaking book, Tulsa, in 1971, and later as the director of his first film, Kids, in 1995.
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Inspired by the Portuguese colonists' white bean stew, they created a concoction with the earthier (and in my book, tastier) black beans.
But she is such a talented artist and her black-and-white drawings are so captivating, it seems wrong to call her memoir a comic book.
As the polo shirts left the area three well-dressed 50-something men, who wouldn't look out of place at a book festival, stood up towards the back of the balcony and placed white sticky labels over their mouths.
The second book chronicles his journey as an environmental and human rights activist to becoming a White House policy advisor.
Also Wednesday, Obama's campaign used former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan's new book attacking the Bush administration as a means to take a swipe at McCain, connecting what Obama called "the failed Bush policies" to McCain.
His lunch, which he ate on his own in an enormous, empty dining room while reading a book under the absentminded gaze of the elderly maid, and the black-and-white gaze of his deceased wife looking out from photographs in ornate silver frames, was light: soup and a small portion of fish and mashed potatoes, some of which he would allow to go cold.
Attending an elite undergraduate or graduate institution requires a certain test score level, which according to Charles Murray in his book Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010, translates into an IQ score well within the top 1% if the institution has high enough median scores.
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