Sunday, May 20, 2012

White house

  • The White House is urging war-weary NATO leaders to dig deeper into their pockets to share the commitment to get Afghanistans forces to stand up on their own so U.S. and NATO forces can pull out in 2014.
  • (NPR News)
  • Washington, May 6 (ANI): The National Christmas Tree, which was planted near the White House a year ago has died and is being removed, Federal officials revealed.
  • (in.news.yahoo.com)
  • Former President George W. Bush plans to return to the White House for the unveiling of his official portrait later this month, marking a rare visit by the two-term president who has largely shunned the spotlight since leaving office.
  • (Examiner)
  • A scrub of more than 2.2 million entries in our new White House visitors database yields a steady stream of lobbyists with access to the Obama administration, as T.W. Farnam reports in today's editions.
  • (Washington Post)
  • Before 9 a.m., a group of lobbyists began showing up at the White House security gates with the chief executives of their companies, all of whom serve on President Obama's jobs council, to be checked in for a roundtable with the president. At 1 p.m.
  • (Washington Post)
  • Its been a good 48 hours for famous ladies who lunch together. On Friday, we were practically falling out of our chairs with joy when a bunch of royals convened at Windsor Palace for a fancy luncheon.
  • (Huffington Post)
  • WASHINGTON -- While President Barack Obama hosted world leaders Saturday for high-level economic talks at Camp David, Michelle Obama engaged in some soft diplomacy with their spouses.
  • (Huffington Post)
  • The White House said Sunday that the death of convicted Lockerbie bomber Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi closed an unfortunate chapter that opened when Scotland freed the former Libyan intelligence officer on humanitarian grounds in 2009.
  • (ABC News)

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