President Obama held his first formal news conference of the year at the White House. Questions from the press covered the situation in the Middle East, gas prices, immigration reform, the NATO summit in Chicago and the GOP Presidential race. “I think it’s been the worst campaign I’ve ever seen in my life,” she said Monday at Southern Methodist University during a daylong conference on the influence of the nation’s first ladies. “I hate that people think compromise is a dirty word. It’s not a dirty word.”former first lady Barbara Bush