Malia Obama lays on the pressure: Inaugural address ‘better be good.’

In a discussion with the Washington Post about his hopes for revitalizing the District of Columbia, President-elect Obama described his family’s recent “field trip” to the Lincoln Memorial. When they looked at Lincoln’s Second Inaugural, Obama said, 10-year-old Malia upped the pressure on her father:

He said he then walked the girls over to the other side of the Lincoln Memorial, where the 16th president’s celebrated Civil War-era second inaugural address is etched. Obama said his younger daughter, 7-year-old Sasha, asked whether he would be giving a similar speech.

“And I said, ‘Well, actually, that’s a short version, but yeah, I will,’ ” Obama recalled. “And then Malia says, ‘First African American president — it better be good.’

“So I just want you to know the pressures I’m under here from my children.”