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Andrea Mitchell was in a light inauguration mood for NBC's In Depth. She dug through the archives to find video clips of First Ladies past--Jackie and Eleanor, Hillary and Rosalynn, Nancy and Laura--in order to illustrate the change facing Michelle Obama. Before moving into the White House, the First-Lady-to-be had been "her family's chief breadwinner." Now the Ivy League educated lawyer intends her "number one role to be mom-in-chief." Her husband will be pulling down a $400,000 annual salary but Mitchell wondered, besides her "big staff, the use of an airplane and a nice budget," whether stay-at-home mother Michelle should also get a paycheck. "Sometimes being the partner is an overlooked talent." Using an inapt analogy just so she could end her cavalcade of clips with more black-and-white glamour, Mitchell confused the issue: "As they used to say about Ginger Rogers, she did everything Fred Astaire did except backwards and in high heels."
Nobody believes a First Lady does "everything" a President does.
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