This one was technically before she was First Lady, but it was essentially the beginning of her time as FLOTUS since she so thoroughly won the country's heart with her emotional and relatable speech. It's how the country first really got to know the Obamas and helped cement their road to the White House.

And in the end, after all that's happened these past 19 months, the Barack Obama I know today is the same man I fell in love with 19 years ago. He's the same man who drove me and our new baby daughter home from the hospital 10 years ago this summer, inching along at a snail's pace, peering anxiously at us in the rearview mirror, feeling the whole weight of her future in his hands, determined to give her everything he'd struggled so hard for himself, determined to give her what he never had: the affirming embrace of a father's love.

And as I tuck that little girl and her little sister into bed at night, I think about how one day, they'll have families of their own. And one day, they — and your sons and daughters — will tell their own children about what we did together in this election. They'll tell them how this time, we listened to our hopes, instead of our fears. How this time, we decided to stop doubting and to start dreaming. How this time, in this great country — where a girl from the South Side of Chicago can go to college and law school, and the son of a single mother from Hawaii can go all the way to the White House – we committed ourselves to building the world as it should be.

Obama's speech at Angelou's memorial service was the perfect ode to her blackness and one of the role models who made it possible for her to succeed in life the way she has. "For me, that was the power of Maya Angelou's words —words so powerful that they carried a little black girl from the South Side of Chicago all the way to the White House," Obama said, particularly referencing Angelou's poem "Phenomenal Woman."

This speech will live on in history books forever for Obama's powerful and unabashed recognition of the history of the White House. "It's the story that I witness every single day when I wake up in a house that was built by slaves, and I watch my daughters — two beautiful, black young women — head off to school, waving goodbye to their father, the President of the United States, the son of a man from Kenya who came here to American -- to America for the same reasons as many of you: To get an education and improve his prospects in life," Obama said.

Speaking from her incredible wealth of experience during the last eight years, Obama urged the country to approach the upcoming election with the same hope and optimism that led her husband to the presidency in 2008. "Don't let anyone ever tell you that this country isn't great, that somehow we need to make it great again. Because this, right now, is the greatest country on earth," Obama said.

Obama's emotional takedown of Donald Trump's then-freshly released 2005 sexually lewd recording was an incredibly strong reminder of how important it is not to let his attitude on women take hold in America. "This is not normal. This is not politics as usual. This is disgraceful. It is intolerable. And it doesn’t matter what party you belong to — Democrat, Republican, independent — no woman deserves to be treated this way. None of us deserves this kind of abuse."