Joining Forces - Obama Presidency Oral History

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Krish Vignarajah

...run out of the First Lady's Office— Joining Forces , Reach Higher, and Let's Move! So i...

Melissa Winter

...that she was passionate about, say Joining Forces . And we need to get to the reelectio...
...you. She was also very passionate about Joining Forces . I talked to Tina Tchen about this an...
...view it quite as a joint endeavor as Joining Forces was. Okay. So was Reach Higher—i...

Matthew Doherty

...happened over the course of 2014 was Joining Forces taking on veteran homelessness as ...
...of multiple agencies—the White House, Joining Forces —it then became pretty clear that w...
...in much more informal roles related to Joining Forces . There were a couple of times when th...
...of times when the executive director of Joining Forces was turning out of their role and b...

Ginger Miller

...spouses. I was really glad to see Joining Forces . I thought it was amazing. It was th...
...So when you talk about the impact of Joining Forces and military spouses, if not fo...
...if not for Michelle Obama—I wish that Joining Forces had existed when I was in that hospita...
...to start a whole movement called Joining Forces , and to get everybody to buy in? Onl...
...and the next administration killed Joining Forces , military spouses—they're stil...

Robert McDonald

...The work that she and Dr. Biden did in— Joining Forces was the name of the organization—wa...
...to ask about that partnership with Joining Forces , with the first lady, Michelle Obama...
...about that, but that was really what Joining Forces was about, was the families—because th...
...in the family that needs therapy. But Joining Forces was just a tremendous organization t...

Valerie Jarrett

...Her work that she did with Dr. Biden on Joining Forces , her effort on Let Girls Learn. Ever...

Tina Tchen

...something we were doing around Joining Forces in our veterans work, or the nutritio...
...know about it, but that's our thing on Joining Forces , to make sure I insert myself int...
...you for that. Do you want to talk about Joining Forces a little bit? I know it got organize...
...very involved with it. Well, Joining Forces —so Let's Move! launched in February o...
...you see today, quite frankly, I think Joining Forces was responsible for, around companie...

...we knew we needed someone to run Joining Forces . We were able to get a White Hous...
...who told me this—was that if I wanted Joining Forces to be taken seriously, and I wante...
...to become the executive director of Joining Forces . And I was lucky enough to do this...
...that I learned of several of both our Joining Forces executive directors and our White Hous...
...into military children. Our last Joining Forces director was Nicole Malachowski...
...these amazing people who served us at Joining Forces and really contributed to the success...
...that are out there, again, I think Joining Forces had a lot to do with that. And so the...
...in the Pentagon at the time we launched Joining Forces . He had only recently retired. And h...
...we had with our executive directors of Joining Forces was so critical, is to have authenti...
...on that. Similarly, as we led up to Joining Forces , during the course of that, there wa...
...of our very first events. We launched Joining Forces with this cross country, in four state...
...never did that. That was the launch of Joining Forces . And remember, the thing about tha...
...Well, I guess just to round out the Joining Forces piece. Which we can continue nex...
...time. Yes. As we got deeper into it, Joining Forces , our involvement in that, a littl...
...weren't specifically, necessarily, a Joining Forces initiative, that level of policy work...
...Girls work, this work that we did from Joining Forces —was somebody at the White House has t...
...wellbeing of our members through our Joining Forces initiative became something that wa...
...base we'd ever gone to. So we did a Joining Forces event too and brought a––the comedian...
...our Air Force base, and did a whole Joining Forces event there on base. So we tried to hi...
...issues. And on that, when we did Joining Forces event at Vicenza Air Force Bas...
...went there for Let's Move!, then we did Joining Forces . And then we got to tou...
...each program—was treat it differently. Joining Forces was the one we determined, early on...
...of the commander-in-chief. And so, Joining Forces , we thought, we would not replicat...
...do things like, we had summits around Joining Forces , where we got people to mak...

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