The White House historically extends invitations to ordinary people to join the first lady in the public gallery of the House chamber during the speech, believing they can help put a human face on an issue or proposal the president will discuss during his annual address.
Tina Tchen is Assistant to the President, Chief of Staff to the First Lady, and Executive Director of the White House Council on Women and Girls.
"Firefighters in breathing apparatus had to combat quite dense smoke and they found the young lady on the first floor of the house, apparently unconscious, " he said.
The First Lady, the official hostess of the White House, can support a variety of issues her role, but the sphere of influence each woman has shifts depending on the term.
Prime Minister David Cameron is leading tributes to Lady Thatcher in the House of Commons, with Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg and Labour leader Ed Miliband among those who will also speak.
The President and First Lady will welcome President Sarkozy of France to the White House on Tuesday, March 30th, for a meeting and a private dinner.
If past bipartisan practice is any guide, one or more extraordinary individual in uniform will grace the First Lady's box in the House gallery, perhaps bearing the scars of terrible wounds suffered in the line of duty.
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Then he led the traditional parade up Pennsylvania Avenue, stopping near the White House to walk a few blocks of the route with first lady Michelle Obama to the cheers of those lining the sidewalks.
The Georgian, Grade II-listed Lady Gillford's House has been transformed from a state of dereliction over the past nine years to become the focal point of the archive.
Labour's leader in the House of Lords, Lady Jay, is giving up her job, and Mo Mowlam decided when she was recalled from Northern Ireland that she would retire after this election.
McChrystal and the White House moved beyond the matter a year later, when the Pentagon cleared his staff of any wrongdoing, and first lady Michelle Obama invited McChrystal to serve on the board of Joining Forces, a White House initiative for troops and their families.
And one of the things I did -- the very first -- one of the very first things I did when I became First Lady and we moved into the White House was that we planted this wonderful garden.
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From the age of six he had walked to school in Clarksdale, Mississippi, past the house of a middle-aged lady called Miss Boozie.
Just after confirming her decision to resign in 1990, Lady Thatcher faced her last Prime Minister's questions in the House of Commons.
In 1919, Lady Nancy Astor became the first woman member to take her seat in the British House of Commons.
The White House also plans to send first lady Michelle Obama and an array of top White House aides to talk next week to a Business Roundtable gathering of about 60 CEOs.
Bush will host King's family at the White House, while first lady Laura Bush plans to visit King's hometown of Atlanta, Georgia.
Leading the list of the 30 to 40 witnesses expected to testify are former White House deputy chief of staff Harold Ickes, presidential advisor Bruce Lindsey and the first lady's chief of staff, Margaret Williams.
But the U.S. Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled against the White House, noting that Sherburne was a government official and not the first lady's private attorney.
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The young lady who ate the quail with me did not set my house on fire. (I kept a pitcher of water nearby just in case.) But the striking beauty and the deep perfume of all those roses certainly made her cheeks flush.
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