Michelle Obama: The Weight of the Legacy I Have Been Carrying Has Been ‘Lifted’

Michelle Obama said the "weight" of the legacy she's been carrying as First Lady is finally being "lifted."

Obama spoke to Oprah Winfrey in a special looking back at her time at the White House. Here's an excerpt:

OPRAH: “Like the weight of the legacy that you all were carrying. The responsibility. So I want to know, has that weight lifted? Or has it just shifted?”
OBAMA: “You know, it’s lifted. I mean, you know, let’s— let’s be honest. I mean, you know, there is... There’s no way to describe what it feels like to open up the paper every day and know that almost every headline is your husband’s responsibility at some level.”
OPRAH: “Mm-hmm.”
OBAMA: “Anywhere in the world, any major problem, any major issue falls on the laps of the commander in chief. And that is a weight that is indescribable. And now that it’s time for us to move on, yeah, that weight has lifted a bit. Not completely, because the work isn’t done until the president-elect takes the oath of office. But knowing that we’ve made it this far, and we’ve survived and, in many ways, I believe we’ve thrived.”