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Who Else Crashed Obama's State Dinner?

By Steve PendleburyJan 5th 2010 – 12:06PM
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(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...

Obamas Showcase Style in First State Dinner

By Andrea StoneNov 24th 2009 – 9:51PM

WASHINGTON (Nov. 24) -- What a night. Curry and glamour shared the menu at the first White House state dinner hosted by President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama. The formal banquet honoring Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his wife, Gursharan Kaur, had been highly anticipated. More than 10 months into...

StateDinner News From the Web

  • 02/10/12 Fashion Week: Will work in Washington? Source: The Washington Post - Washington DC The fashion industry has kicked off its eight-day extravaganza of designer shows for fall 2012.
  • 10/14/11 State Dinner: Recap Source: The Root The Washington Post's Monica Hesse and Roxanne Roberts report that Thursday night's state dinner -- the fifth one the Obamas have hosted -- was marked by a thunderous downpour, but guests' spirits were undampened.
  • 06/07/11 Obama and German Chancellor Merkel Meet Source: C-SPAN This evening, the President and the First Lady hosted a State Dinner in honor of Chancellor Merkel during her Official Visit to the White House. 
  • 01/28/11 China-U.S. summit was a win-win Source: People's Weekly World Last week's White House summit meeting between President Barack Obama and China's President Hu Jintao marked an important turn in U.S.-China relations.
  • 01/26/11 With Hu's social call a non-event, US can rethink... Source: The San Francisco Examiner - San Francisco CA For all the pomp and state-dinner circumstance, Hu Jintao's visit to Washington generated little actual news.

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