If Rose was surprised I hadn’t read Hard Choices, I was equally surprised she had. I knew that Obama was, unfortunately, the president of the U.S., but at the time I couldn’t have told you who the vice president was. I had no clue who governed Rhode Island or what a House seat was. I certainly didn’t know who the “president” of the UK was. It struck me as odd that someone in this country would have any interest at all in a politician from another.