Obama and Sarkozy Speak to the Press March 30

The Obamas greet the Sarkozys in France

Obama and Joe Biden will meet with France's President Nicolas Sarkozy at 3 pm eastern. Obama and Sarkozy will speak to the press at 4:45 pm. It will be live streamed at WhiteHouse.gov.
Later, the Obamas will host Sarkozy and his wife, Carla Bruni, at the White House for din din.

Michelle Obama's Beauty Impact

Poet E. Ethelbert Miller talks with Speaking of Faith's Krista Tippett on "blackness" (not skin color) in America and what Obama and Michelle Obama mean. Miller and Tippett also talk jazz, baseball, poetry and depression. Miller says Michelle Obama's impact could be greater than anything that Obama might accomplish. "She shifts the paradigm in terms of beauty." An interesting conversation:

Obama Arrives in London

See a British narrated video of the Obamas arrival in London here.
Raw video of the arrival of Air Force One:

BBC: President Obama was met at Stansted Airport, north of London, by UK Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling and a senior official from the US Embassy.
He then boarded the presidential helicopter Marine One to make the short journey to central London where he will stay at the US ambassador's residence.
Before the start of the G20 summit of world leaders on Thursday, Mr Obama will hold extensive talks with Gordon Brown, meet the UK opposition leader David Cameron and have a private audience with the Queen.
The president is also scheduled to hold bi-lateral meetings with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, Chinese President Hu Jintao, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, South Korean President Lee Myung-bak and King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia.

The president's wife, Michelle Obama, will take part in a series of engagements with Sarah Brown, the prime minister's wife.
Mr Brown is keen for world leaders to reach agreement on a new set of rules for regulating global finance as well as measures to boost economic demand and support poorer countries.

OBAMA'S EUROPEAN TRIP
Tuesday: Arrives in London
Wednesday: Mr and Mrs Obama breakfast with the Browns at 10 Downing Street; Mr Obama holds talks with Gordon Brown; meets Russian and Chinese presidents, David Cameron, and the Queen
Thursday: G20 summit; Mr Obama will also meet the Indian PM, the South Korean president and King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia during the day
Friday: Departs for Strasbourg; meets French president; holds town-hall meeting; visits German Chancellor in Baden-Baden, returns to Strasbourg
Saturday: Attends Nato summit in Strasbourg; departs for Prague
Sunday: Attends EU-US summit, departs for Ankara
Monday: Departs Ankara for US
CBSNews also has a nifty map and schedule here.

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Obama Picks Susan Sher as Associate Counsel

Susan Sher was the first woman to head Chicago's law department. Mayor Daley appointed her in 1993.

Swamp: Barack Obama is taking another Chicagoan with him to the White House and this one happens to be his wife's former boss.

A transition aide said this afternoon that Susan Sher will be named associate counsel to the president. Sher is now a vice president for legal and government affairs at the University of Chicago Medical Center, where she is also general counsel.

The aide said Sher's duties will include providing legal advice to future First Lady Michelle Obama and working on legal issues associated with health care policy.

Michelle Obama had been on unpaid leave of absence at the medical center for all of 2008 as she helped her husband campaign for the presidency. She had worked there as a vice president for community and external affairs.

A little bit about Sher from Obama's transition site:

Sher will be Associate Counsel to the President. Her duties will include providing legal advice to the First Lady and working on legal issues associated with health care policy. Sher is currently the Vice President for Legal and Governmental Affairs and General Counsel of the University of Chicago Medical Center and is responsible for all legal, government, regulatory, and community affairs at the Medical Center. She also works on governance and many other Board related issues. From 1993 through 1997 she was the Corporation Counsel for the City of Chicago, the City of Chicago's chief lawyer, reporting to the Mayor and responsible for representing the Mayor, city departments, boards, and commissions on all legal matters. She was the first Assistant Corporation Counsel from 1989-1993. Previously she was Associate General Counsel of the University of Chicago, and earlier, was a partner at Mayer Brown & Platt, specializing in Labor and Litigation. She is a cum laude graduate of Loyola University of Chicago School of Law. She is currently on the following Boards of Directors: Vice Chair of the Board of Trustees of Mt. Sinai Hospital Medical Center & Schwab Rehabilitation Hospital & Care Network; the Board of Directors of High Jump; the Board of Directors of YWCA of Greater Chicago. She is Past Chair of the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools and of The Chicago Network. She is on a variety of task forces and committees involving not-for-profit corporations and healthcare, including the Illinois Hospital Association, the Attorney General's Charitable Advisory Task Force and the Donor's Public Trust Task Force.