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In March 2009, barely two months after Michelle Obama resigned from her position as VP of community and external affairs at the University of Chicago Medical Center and before her husband began arguing with Congress about health care, workers broke ground on the White House lawn for what would eventually become the first lady's 1,100-square-foot organic kitchen garden. Shortly afterward Obama enlisted students from nearby Bancroft Elementary School to help with the planting. Obama has drawn fire from the public since her husband first stepped into the national spotlight, and when she planted her garden and launched her campaign against childhood obesity, shots volleyed from additional quarters. Some, understandably, hoped Obama would be as outspoken and unconventional a first lady as Hillary Clinton. Rather than openly intervening in policy, as Hillary Clinton did with health care, Obama, like several previous first ladies, speaks from the private sphere to appeal to a broad audience while distancing herself from her husband's office.