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The White House released another installment of its visitor records today more than 1,600 records covering the time period between Jan. 20 and Aug. 31.
The release came in response to more than 300 requests during October. In announcing the new data on the White House blog , Norm Eisen , ...
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General David Petraeus
By Mary Lu Carnevale
The White House has had a lot of fun with the official turkey-pardoning ceremony this year.
First, there was The Preview .
And at today's official ceremony, the president offered a few one-liners as he stood with his daughters, Malia and Sasha on the White ...
World
Turkey
By Jonathan Weisman
White House energy and environment czar Carol Browner tried Wednesday to shrug off the swirling controversy over purloined British emails suggesting collusion on the part of climate scientists trying to stoke up fears of global warming. She hadn't read them, she said, and ...
White House
By Jonathan Weisman
The number of new troops for Afghanistan has been reported to be at a high end of 40,000 (CBS) or a lowish end of 34,000 (McClatchy News Service) to slightly more than 30,000 (The Wall Street Journal).
The White House itself has made clear President Barack Obama will ...
World
Afghanistan
Barack Obama
CBS
By Mary Lu Carnevale
An Official Pardon: It's almost Thanksgiving, and much of Washington is heading over the river and through the woods. But President Barack Obama has one more day to go and one more task to perform before he can sit down for a turkey dinner: the turkey pardoning ...
White House
Barack Obama
By Peter Wallsten
Former CNN anchor Lou Dobbs is moving fast to repair his image with Latinos as he mulls a potential future bid for political office, as this WSJ story shows.
His live, 30-minute appearance Friday night on Al Rojo Vivo, a popular show on the Spanish-language network ...
White House
Lou Dobbs
By Nomaan Merchant
Lou Dobbs , the former CNN anchor who is considering a new career in politics, has quickly been distancing himself from earlier on-camera fuming about illegal immigrants.
Just this past Friday, he sat down for an interview with Telemundo's Maria Celeste : “Whatever ...
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Lou Dobbs
CNN
By Jonathan Weisman
The White House's guest list for President Barack Obama 's first state dinner prove one point: For a dinner in honor of Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh , an Indian background helps land an invite.
Among those planning to attend are Preeta Bansal , general counsel of ...
World
United States
The White House released this joint statement from Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and President Barack Obama :
Joint Statement between Prime Minister Dr. Singh and President Obama
INDIA AND THE UNITED STATES: PARTNERSHIP FOR A BETTER WORLD
Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh and ...
World
Barack Obama
Foreign Policy
By Naftali Bendavid
Doug Hoffman , the Conservative Party candidate who upended a New York congressional race and sent tremors through the national political scene, today issued what could be his final statement on the race, which ended on Election Day Nov. 3.
Hoffman congratulated the ...
White House
Republican National Committee
By Jonathan Weisman
The invitation list for President Barack Obama 's first state dinner tonight this one for Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has yet to be revealed, but a few names are slipping out, some of them courtesy of First Lady Michelle Obama .
Providing some of the ...
World
Foreign Policy
By Jonathan Weisman
The invitation list for President Barack Obama 's first state dinner tonight this one for Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has yet to be revealed, but a few names are slipping out, some of them courtesy of First Lady Michelle Obama .
Providing some of the ...
World
Foreign Policy
By Mary Lu Carnevale
The formal White House arrival ceremony for Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh , and his wife, Gursharan Kaur , this morning was a cross-cultural event right down to the pool reports from the White House press corps.
Lalit K. Jha , the principal U.S. correspondent ...
World
India
Foreign Policy
President Obama’s ninth meeting with his war council on Afghanistan last night will apparently be his last. After huddling deep into the night in the situation room, the president declared that he has the information he needs to act on Gen. Stanley McChrystal’s request for 40,000 ...
World
Afghanistan
Barack Obama
Robert Gibbs
By Stu Woo
California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger tapped broccoli farmer and Republican state Sen. Abel Maldonado , one of his few Sacramento allies, to be the state's next lieutenant governor.
The two have been friends since the governor's successful campaign in the 2003 recall election ...
Other
Arnold Schwarzenegger
By Peter Wallsten
Conservative Republican Party activists want to withhold money from GOP candidates who stray too far from party orthodoxy.
Ten Republican National Committee members are distributing a plan to impose a purity test calling for money to be withheld from anyone who disagrees ...
White House
Republican National Committee
By Mary Lu Carnevale
A White House Welcome: Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh , who kicked off a high-profile U.S. trip with a visit Monday to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, is spending quality time at the White House today. After a 9:15 a.m. EST arrival ceremony (live-streamed here ) for ...
White House
Barack Obama
Manmohan Singh
By Jonathan Weisman
Speculation was rampant in the run-up to President Barack Obama ’s Asia swing that he would announce his momentous decision on U.S. policies in Afghanistan and Pakistan shortly after his return.
Instead, he's announced
another meeting of his war council on ...
World
Afghanistan
Pakistan
Barack Obama
Robert Gibbs
By John D. McKinnon
You can say this for Ari Fleischer , the former press secretary to President George W. Bush : he doesn't shrink from unpopular causes.
Fleischer hasn't been hired by any actual werewolves yet, as far as we know. But he's had his share of tough public-relations jobs, such ...
White House
Ari Fleischer
By Jonathan Weisman
President Barack Obama and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will hold a press conference on Tuesday to field two questions, one from an American reporter, another from an Indian journalist four if we're lucky, according to White House press secretary Robert Gibbs .
...
