Yesterday, after ordering hospital visits rights to the partners of gay men and lesbians, president Obama called Janice Langbehn, a woman from Florida who in 2007 lost her partner for 18 years, Lisa Pond. Lisa was stricken with a fatal brain aneurysm and Janice and their four adopted children, were not allowed seeing her. Janice even had power of attorney for Pond, but it didn't help. Pond died alone.

Apparently, the president read the story last year. So last night he called Langbehn from Air Force One to tell her about the new policy. "I was so humbled that he would know Lisa's name and know our story," Langbehn told the NYT. "He apologized for how we were treated. For the last three years, that's what I've been asking the hospital to do. Even now, three years later, they still refuse to apologize to the children and I for the fact that Lisa died alone."

He apologized. Like i wasn't already sure that this is a great-great man.

Here's a short and moving interview Janice Langbehn gave CNN last night.

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And just to bring some smiles back, here's the president mocking the Tea Party nonsense during a fundraiser in Miami last night. "You'd think they'll thank me". :)

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