When she worked to improve her family’s functioning by carving out private time to work out in the morning and, at the same time, compelling her husband to take some domestic responsibilities, Obama demonstrated the skill of:

 
 
 
 
 
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By forsaking more comfortable career paths to join the Navy so he could move beyond merely providing relief and to stay true to his belief that protection with force was a necessary complement to…

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