WASHINGTON - The remote control is on the whole Obama clan. Obama President of the half sister Maya Soetoro-Ng, his family in Hawaii and over the next few months living in the capital of the country, the official means the White House.
Lolo Soetoro, the father of Mr. Obama and his mother, Stanley Ann Dunham Soetoro, Maya and Barack.
Your stay means that the brothers live in the same city, at least for some time, for the first time in years.
Ms Soetoro-Ng, which came from his post as high school teacher in Hawaii, has written a book and a new baby. Her husband, Konrad Ng, a professor at the University of Hawaii, is a researcher in residence at the Smithsonian Institution in Asia and the Pacific program until next month.
Mr Ng remains to December Museum in Washington, where he was with his family in Hawaii. There, his tenure as residents during the school year. The family is not foreseen in the White House, even if they are very close to Obama.
Maya has traveled and visited in Chicago and other places throughout the country, and he and his brother have a relationship, "said Alan S. King, a lawyer from Chicago who is a friend of Mr. Obama.
M. King said he believed that the President was "very happy, Maya and his family.
Katie McCormick Lelyveld, Michelle Obama spokesman, said Ms. Soetoro-Ng was not available to comment on Thursday.
Recently in an interview, Ms. Soetoro-Ng, 38, describes the first woman as a "big sister" in his life. And Ms. Soetoro-Ng, the campaign on behalf of Mr. Obama's presidential elections, has often warmly about her relationship with his brother says he remained in spite of the fact that they often lived away.
The brothers of the same mother, Stanley Ann Dunham Soetoro, spent several years in Indonesia and Hawaii, before Mrs Dunham has decided to return to Indonesia, with Ms. Soetoro-Ng while Mr. Obama was in Hawaii with their grandparents. (Ms. Soetoro-Ng was the father of Indonesia, Mr. Obama's father was in Kenya).
However, Ms. Soetoro-Ng said, is still connected.
Growing up, he said, Mr. Obama has his music, literature and new neighborhoods. He has to decide that the appointments should be kept and must ditch. She has at her wedding and the funeral, if he has helped her father died.
As adults we often have the celebration in Hawaii, play Scrabble - Mr. Obama écrasèrent her in an intense game that is months before the Iowa caucus - and enjoy the time with their families.
And after his mother died of ovarian cancer in 1995, lies near the shore, Hawaii, and his ashes scattered in the Pacific Ocean.
"He is someone who really expanded my perspective," Ms. Soetoro-Ng told the Canadian television network CTV, in November.
"He took me into the schools throughout the country, to help me, a good decision when going to school," he says. "He took me with him to work on the south side of Chicago and to the municipalities and the compulsory registration of voters, and showed me that it was important to be active and a fighter."
Since the presidential elections, Ms. Soetoro-Ng spoke to several universities in California, focusing on the role of educators in the promotion of diversity and conflict resolution.
In April she signed a contract Candlewick Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, to write a book for children, "Stairway to the Moon" by his mother and his 4 years, girls, Suhail. She is also a book about the education for peace and conflict resolution in schools.
The leaders of the school at La Pietra Hawaii School for Girls, where Ms. Soetoro-Ng teaches history, said she left her job when his contract expires at the end of the school year. He spent some time here this summer.
In June, he was President of the Commission for grants from the White House, the young talents to one year's work for the officials from the White House and other officials.
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