First Lady's Guests Reflect themes of the Speech: NYTimes
Wednesday, February 25, 2009 at 6:20AM
Michelle Obama, center, flanked by, from left, Dina Leach, Ty’Sheoma Bethea, Officer Richard DeCoatsworth of the Philadelphia police and Jill Biden.WASHINGTON — Seated in Michelle Obama’s box on Tuesday night were living symbols of the ideas in President Obama’s first speech to a joint session of Congress, including a bank executive, Leonard Abess, who shared a vast fortune with his employees, and an eighth-grade student from South Carolina, Ty’Sheoma Bethea, who in a letter had urged Congress not to neglect education financing.
Mr. Obama used a line in Ty’Sheoma’s letter, “We are not quitters,” as one of his closing themes.
Mr. Abess split $60 million among several hundred current and former workers at his bank. more
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