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White House Won't Confirm D-Day Trip
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyNumerous media outlets are reporting that President Barack Obama will travel to Normandy in June for the commemoration of the 65th anniversary of the D-Day landings. But all of the available media reports rely on French President Nicholas Sarkozy's Chief of Staff, who made the announcement that Obama had agreed to attend while the president was in Strasbourg, France for the NATO summit. None of the reports contains confirmation from the White House of President Obama's travel plans. Quite the contrary, the White House provided an official "no comment" to at least two media outlets, the New ...
Obama Skips Visit to Normandy, American Cemetery
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyReports out of London indicate that President Barack Obama declined an inviation from French President Nicholas Sarkozy to visit Normandy's Omaha Beach and the American Cemetery at Colleville-sur-mer on his way to Strasbourg for the NATO summit last week. The Daily Telegraph reports that White House officials travelled to France last month to discuss the visit with their counterparts on Sarkozy's staff. But one American official familiar with the negotiations said that President Obama never had any intention of making the stop over."It wasn't going to happen. We went through the motions to ...
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