Former President Barack Obama's mother-in-law, who moved to Washington to live with the family when he took office, said in an interview airing Wednesday that she was afraid for their safety.
"[I] was worried about their safety," Marian Shields Robinson, who appeared with daughter Michelle Obama, said in an interview with "CBS This Morning" co-host Gayle King. "I felt like this was going to be a very hard life for both of them...I was worried about my grandkids."
Obama's memoir, "Becoming" which was released this week, and details her life from Chicago's South Side to Washington. Her mother said her own move to the White House was difficult.
"It was a huge adjustment. As a matter of fact, I had talked [the White House staff] into allowing me to do my own laundry," Shields Robinson told King.
"She taught the girls how to do their laundry. They would go upstairs for laundry lessons," Obama said. "They learned how to use the machine."
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