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Work-family balance in the White House

Americans often endow first families with symbolic cultural significance. In the 1980s, adoring wife Nancy Reagan was seen as representing traditional values. A decade later, Hillary Rodham Clinton, the first-ever first lady with a career of her own, became an emblem of the powerful, liberated woman.

Today, with all the hopes and dreams many invest in Barack Obama, some of those dreams will...

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