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Beyonce to Headline at White House State Dinner
By Lynn Sweet - Politics DailyBeyoncé and Rodrigo y Gabriela -- Rodrigo Sanchez and Gabriela Quintero -- will headline the entertainment on Wednesday night when President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama host a state dinner for President Felipe Calderón of Mexico and his wife, Margarita Zavala. Some 200 people are invited to the East Room for the dinner, and more asked over for dessert and entertainment in a pavilion erected on the South Lawn. Calderón and Obama deliver the traditional toast at 7:10 p.m. Eastern time; that toast and the performance will be live streamed. ...
Obama-Calderon Summit: Drugs, Immigration, Trucks, Ceviche
By Alex Wagner - Politics DailyIf there's a theme for tonight's White House state dinner for Mexican President Felipe Calderón, it might be "Los labios sueltos hunden barcos," or "Loose lips sink ships" (thank you, Google Translate). As my colleague Lynn Sweet reports, access to the most basic details of the dinner has been treated with Defcon Level 5 security, and the public has been forced to sate itself with chef-for-the-night Rick Bayless' Twitter crumbs (sorta) detailing the "rather small White House kitchen." That, and we know there will be an herb ceviche. For those interested in the meat of the summit between ...
Drug Wars: U.S., Mexico Wrestle With Violence
By Lynn Sweet - Politics DailyMEXICO CITY -- At the Santa Fe Mall, the largest retail center in Mexico, families are shopping and diners are mingling in the food court. Outside the sun is shining on a beautiful spring day. The jacaranda trees are flowering, filling some of the avenues of this city with a lilac glow. Michelle Obama will fly here the next day and her motorcade will shut down avenues. But the only real disruptions before her arrival were street closings on a pleasant Sunday that allowed thousands of bicyclists to peddle unimpeded through tree-lined thoroughfares. These wholesome scenes are snapshots of ...
Who Else Crashed Obama's State Dinner?
By Steve Pendlebury - AOL News(Jan. 5) -- Tareq and Michaele Salahi weren't the only ones who got into the state dinner at the White House without an invitation. The Secret Service confirms there was a third party crasher. But the man accused of the security breach denies it was him. A congressional source told The Washington Post that Carlos Allen, a party promoter in the nation's capital, was the uninvited guest. A statement from the Secret Service did not identify the crasher but said he got into the White House with the official Indian delegation to the Nov. 24 dinner honoring that country's prime minister. "I did ...
Top 5 Most Outrageous Political Videos of 2009
By Emily Miller - Politics DailyPolitics in 2009 was pretty serious business, except when it wasn't. Some serious moments made for amusing parodies; others remind us that there can be an absurd quality to high-profile transgressions, criminal acts, and even death. So, please take a step back from the contentious nature of politics to enjoy some year-end, bipartisan, moments courtesy of YouTube. 1. "Don't Call Me Liz," as re-enacted on Keith Olbermann's show The e-mail chain between Elizabeth Becton (aka "Don't Call me Liz!") -- the scheduler for Rep. Jim McDermott (D-Wash.) – and a Democratic lobbyist's assistant was ...
Salahis Subpoenaed To Appear Before Panel Probing Party Crashing
By Lynn Sweet - Politics DailyThe House Homeland Security Committee, chaired by Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.), Wednesday voted to authorize subpoenas to force alleged state dinner party crashers Tareq and Michaele Salahi to appear before the panel on Jan. 20. The couple, aspiring reality television stars, declined an invitation to testify last week about how they entered the White House on Nov. 24 for the state dinner honoring the Prime Minister of India even though they were not invited. The couple also face possible criminal charges. A bid by Rep. Peter King (R-NY) to have the panel subpoena White House Social Secretary ...
In Defense of Desiree Rogers
By Lynn Sweet - Politics DailyOn Nov. 24, 2008, Desiree Rogers was tapped by then President-elect Barack Obama to be the new White House Social Secretary, working in an office of the East Wing overseen by First Lady Michelle Obama. The night before the announcement, Rogers and Mrs. Obama dined privately at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, where they worked out the final details of the position that would transplant Rogers -- a fixture in Chicago's business, social, and political circles -- into the highest profile job of her life. ...
After Salahis Crashed White House Party, Secret Service to Be More Vigilant
By Lynn Sweet - Politics DailyThe White House is expecting thousands of guests in the coming weeks for holiday parties just as probes into how aspiring reality TV stars Tareq and Michaele Salahi crashed President Obama's state dinner are heating up inside the Secret Service and on Capitol Hill. "The Secret Service will not hesitate to check, double check and triple check the guest list for the upcoming receptions just to make sure the Secret Service and the White House are on the same page," Special Agent Darrin Blackford, a Secret Service spokesman, told me on Monday. ...
Obama Met State Dinner Party Crashers; Secret Service Taking Blame
By Lynn Sweet - Politics DailyMichaele and Tareq Salahi, the Virginia couple who crashed the state dinner Tuesday night, met President Obama in the receiving line, a White House official said in a statement issued Friday. The Secret Service took the blame for the security breach. A preliminary investigation determined the couple -- aspiring reality TV show players -- should have been turned away at the first checkpoint. The Secret Service plans to interview the couple, Jim Mackin, the agency's deputy assistant director for public affairs, told me on Friday. I asked him if the couple faced criminal charges. "We simply ...
White House Gate-Crashers: Security Breach or Social Office Lapse?
By Carl M. Cannon - Politics DailyIt was always grimly ironic that one of Abraham Lincoln's last official acts before heading to Ford's Theater on April 14, 1865 was to approve Treasury Secretary Hugh McCulloch's plan to create a new division within his agency called the Secret Service. ...
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