Reply #3: Joe Klein added this tidbit: "There was a fun bit of byplay between the President and First Lady

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earlier in the morning, at a small ceremony where Obama was asked to sign the Nobel Guest Book. The President wrote and wrote--in his tiny, precise script, his left hand curled torturously around the back of the pen--and finally his wife asked, "What are you writing, a book?"

The First Lady was then asked to add a few words: "Mine will be shorter," she said.

"She will resist writing something sarcastic," the President said, "since this will be recorded for the future."'



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