Today First Lady Michelle Obama continued the long tradition of First Ladies donating their inaugural gowns to the Smithsonian. Mrs. Obama presented her 2009 inaugural gown to the National Museum of American History, joined by dress designer, Jason Wu, and thirty two aspiring young designers from the Huntington High School Fashion Program in New York. First Lady Michelle Obama presents her 2009 inaugural gown to the Smithsonian National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C.
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It’s The Dress
If we enact health reform, it will restrict how much of your premium dollars can be spent on profits and overhead by requiring health insurance companies to spend 80-85% of the money they take in on care. That’s worth keeping in mind. Because right after the Insurance companies announced huge rate increases for families across the country , they gathered at the luxurious Ritz Carlton in Washington to announce that they are spending $1 million on ads to defeat health reform. That money could probably be better spent keeping rates down for customers. Dan Pfeiffer is White House Communications Director
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So That’s Why They’re Raising Rates So Much …
Jerusalem Tuesday, March 9, 2010 VICE PRESIDENT BIDEN: I want to thank our hosts for showing us through Yad Vashem. As a young father, when I introduced each of our sons — who are grown men now — to Europe at age 15, I took them first to Dachau for them to understand as young men the human capacity — ability of mankind to be so brutal. But also, I took my son here to Israel to let him know that the indomitable spirit of the human being is not able to be snuffed out. What I wrote in the book is as a fan of the Irish poet William Butler Yeats. Writing about his Ireland, he said, “Too long a suffering makes a stone of the heart.” What I wrote here is that every day, Israel makes a lie of the poet’s words — ”too long a suffering makes a stone of the heart” — because for world Jewry, Israel is the heart. For world Jewry, Israel is the light. For world Jewry, Israel is the hope. If anyone ever wondered about that, they ought to take the tour of the museum. They would not doubt it again. The word — phrase “never again” is used so often it almost has lost its meaning. But, again, all you have to do is walk through — walk through Yad Vashem and understand how incredible — how incredible the journey has been and the spirit a world Jewry and that Israel is such a central part to its existence. Thank you.
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Remarks by Vice President Biden at Yad Vashem Memorial
