“I want to tell you a story,” the president confessed during the reception for the Olympic athletes at the 2012 London Olympics, “and Máximo is going to kill me, but I don’t care. Máximo was in school, in 1983, and he failed P.E. He was in first or second grade. So I went to the school to talk to his teacher. Just to be clear, I wasn’t any kind of authority figure then, I was just a lawyer. The teacher, who was ex-military, told me he’d failed Máximo because he couldn’t do a handstand. So I looked at him and I said, ‘Look, I’m a lawyer, and so is my husband, we’re from one of the most important law firms in Santa Cruz [Province], and neither of us knows how to do a handstand. We never learned how to do this because we never went around doing somersaults or anything, because our thing was reading…Now, if you asked my son who the president was, I assure you he’d know.’”