Michelle Obama has turned to a Harvard Law School connection to help her connect to Washington.

She is the world’s most famous celebrity photographer, whose trademark images include the naked and very pregnant Demi Moore for Vanity Fair and a bare-armed First Lady Michelle Obama for Vogue. For all her plaudits, though, Leibovitz was broke.

With the arrival of a new administration, Muckety decided to take a fresh look at Washington’s power couples. Here’s our take on the Capitol’s top 70 or so duos.

It used to be said that behind every successful man is a woman. In the case of President-elect Barack Obama, add his mother-in-law, Marian Robinson, to the mix.

Some see President-elect Barack Obama’s decision to sit down for his first print interview with Ebony magazine as a symbolic nod to the readers of the historic black magazine.

It is testament to her close relationship to Barack and Michelle Obama – and to members of their inner circle - that Desiree Rogers threw an intimate birthday party for her friend, Valerie Jarrett, last week. Among the guests were the president-elect and his wife.

They don’t come much more networked than Valerie Jarrett.

Barack Obama isn’t the only person in his extended family taking on a big challenge.

Sen. Chuck Hagel, the Nebraska Republican who has become a pariah in his own party, has been publicly criticizing John McCain’s vice-presidential pick, while his wife, Lilibet, attended the final presidential debate as Michelle Obama’s guest.

Sarah Palin’s wardrobe has been revamped, thanks to the Republican National Committee.

Barack Obama’s wife, Michelle, is a first cousin, once removed, to Rabbi Capers C. Funnye Jr., spiritual leader of a mostly black synagogue on Chicago’s South Side.

People Magazine’s sexiest man of the year, Matt-Damon, is also the face of the ONE Campaign; a non-profit organization that raises public awareness about the global issues of hunger, poverty, and disease.

The parallels between Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine and Obama - both of whom are Harvard-educated attorneys with Kansas roots and a civil rights orientation - help explain their unusual chemistry. But those similarities could also prove a liability for the Democratic ticket.

Some will call it political bias, or perhaps, more evidence of the swooning comparisons between the Obamas and the Kennedys by a besotted media.

Last week California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger endorsed Republican John McCain for president. Sunday, the governor’s wife, Maria Shriver, endorsed Democrat Barack Obama.