article_snippet.sent: Inside The Private World Of the Obama White House .
article_snippet.sent: For Americans, the Obama White House is as iconic and royal a palace as you can get.
article_snippet.sent: The West Wing is the President’s office quarters; The West Wing belongs to the First Lady and her office staff.
article_snippet.sent: ‘The Residence’, as the living quarters are called, really begins on the second floor and is kept hidden from the hundreds of tourists who parade through the state rooms every afternoon.
article_snippet.sent: The White House is never untenanted.
article_snippet.sent: The black staff, especially the elderly butlers who remembered segregation, are especially proud to serve the Obamas as the first black presidential family.
article_snippet.sent: One found Obama and Obama wife, Michelle, celebrating gaining The White House on Obama and his wife, Michelle first night there with an impromptu dance to a record by Mary J. Blige.
article_snippet.sent: And yet the Obamas the Obamas have turned out to be rather reserved and distant with the staff