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Michelle Obama: Laura Bush Fan

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While co-hosting "The View," the candidate's wife says she was "touched" by the first lady and wrote her a note of thanks for defending her over the "proud of my country" flap.

Also insists she was proud of the U.S. before the campaign, says her controversial comment referred to her pride in the political process. Click above to watch her respond

Also pays tribute to Clinton's trail-blazing campaign, and greets the show's hosts with a fist bump.

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Tuesday, July 7

    • 1:00 am
    • President Obama meets with Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and has a working breakfast at Prime Minister Putin's dacha
    • 3:00 am
    • President Obama meets with former President Mikhail Gorbachev at Gostinny Dvor
    • 3:15 am
    • President Obama delivers commencement address at ceremonies for the 2009 graduating class of the New Economic School at Gostinny Dvor
    • 5:40 am
    • President Obama meets one-on-one with President Medvedev at The Kremlin
    • 6:10 am
    • Barack and Michelle Obama attend lunch reception hosted by President Medvedev at The Kremlin
    • 7:25 am
    • President Obama and President Medvedev meet with Parallel Business Summit at the Manezh Exhibition Hall
    • 8:20 am
    • President Obama meets with the Parallel Civil Society Summit at the Metropol Hotel
    • 9:35 am
    • President Obama meets with Russian opposition leaders at the Ritz Carlton
    • 12:00 pm
    • Vice President Biden goes to the United States Capitol to swear in Al Franken as the next United States Senator from Minnesota
    • 1:30 pm
    • Vice President Biden will be joined by Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack to issue the Food Safety Working Group's key findings

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