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Both Obama and Lettermandescribed their recent,post-job vacationsand shared a few anecdotes about parenting.

With nothing else to do, Malia suggested that Obama put together a desk lamp.
I grab it, and it should have taken like five minutes or three minutes, he says.
It only had four parts or something.
And Im sitting there and Im just toiling away at this thing and its taken half an hour.
Meanwhile, Michelles finished scrubbing and shes organizing closets and all this, and I was just pretty pathetic.
Theyre pretending they cant hear me in the back, sniveling.
Ex-presidential parents: Theyre as dorky as all the other ones.