Michelle Obama, seated directly in front of me in the gallery overlooking the chamber of the House of Representatives, listened intently as her husband delivered his final State of the Union address before a joint session of Congress. It was a poignant night. The political divisions on Capitol Hill that cold winter evening were deep and widening, with a historically bitter presidential race still looming. It had been twenty-eight years since I’d first arrived in the United States, and now, as CEO of Microsoft, I was the guest of the First Lady, following along with tens of millions of others
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