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All of this fuss over a party?!?
20 hours ago ago from Aalexander11's Blog
Oh man. It is the Christmas season and the whole country is in an uproar about the fact that we can’t use the phrase “Christmas season.” This happens every year. Everywhere we go there is a large emphasis on the fact that it is the “holiday” season. In schools teachers have to be very careful not to say, “have fun on Christmas break!” so they don’t offend any students of other religions or beliefs. And that is just fine. I’m ok ...
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23 hours ago ago from The Blushing Hostess Entertains
It was the only time George W. Bush would don white tie during his tenure as President. While he wore a suit as a matter of course, he is decidedly not a formal dandy, but on the occasion of dinner with Queen Elizabeth II he cleaned up nicely and stood up lovely and straight. For the visiting monarchy of the United Kingdom, the White House menu offerings have had ups and downs: The Queen was scandalously served hot dogs during a state visit ...
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MRS. OBAMA: Hello. Good afternoon. Welcome to the White House and Happy Holidays! Thanks to all of you for joining us here today as we preview how we will mark the holidays here at the White House. Now, like many years past, we've actually been planning this day, and the holiday season, since the summer. And our starting point was a very simple idea: that we include as many people, in as many places, in as many ways as we can. So we ...
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Barack Obama is said to have written his acceptance speech before the Nobel Prize committee himself. It was a masterful delivery by a great orator. And though he used some of his well crafted words to slam America and George W. Bush, some think he adopted the 'Bush Doctrine' in his speech. According to MyWayNews his discussion of his role as commander in chief was pretty clear: Obama refused to renounce war for his nation or ...
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Can anyone find me a single White House meeting from Bush II years that went like this?
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Actors have the privilege of exploring fictional characters, to see the world from the perspective of another person's imagined life. Sometimes, usually less often, we have the opportunity to speak the words of historical figures, to say the words they themselves spoke. This presents a different kind of challenge, in many ways, something I have been thinking about personally since becoming involved with a performance project and now ...
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WASHINGTON At the first Hanukkah party in the Obama White House, a Jewish student choir will sing in sweet harmony, the two young children of a soldier deployed in Iraq will light a 19th-century silver menorah from Prague and President Obama and his wife, Michelle, will greet more than 500 guests in a celebration that is expected to spill from the State Room to the East Room. Blog But to the dismay of some ...
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