First Lady Michelle Obama has described the security breach at White that marred her debut as the nation’s hostess as a ‘footnote’ to an otherwise outstanding state dinner for Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
‘Given the opportunity, there’s nothing from 2009 for which she’s craving a do-over. She’s not longing for a few generous mulligans,’ [...]
Washington, December 14 (ANI): US President Barack Obama has pledged that he will not let the gatecrashing incident, that has caused much embarrassment to the White House, happen again.
The leader was referring to the uninvited entry of Tareq and Michaele Salahi at the Obama administration’s [...]
Washington, Dec 14 (IANS) President Barack Obama was angry about the celebrity-hound couple who crashed the White House state dinner for Prime Minister Manmohan Singh last month and promised the ’screwup’ won’t happen again.
‘What I know is what everybody knows,’ Obama said in a CBS interview aired Sunday night. ‘These people should not have gotten [...]
Washington, Dec 4 (IANS) Three US Secret Service officers have been put on paid leave for their role in letting an uninvited socialite couple breeze into President Barack Obama’s dinner for visiting Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and shake hands with both.
The agency, charged with protecting the president and visiting dignitaries, had identified the agents [...]
Washington, Dec 4 (DPA) The gate crashers to a White House state dinner in the US snubbed a real invitation to a different centre of power in the nation’s capital, the Congress.
Michaele and Tareq Salahi, would-be reality TV stars, declined Thursday to show up at a House of Representatives hearing, where last week’s security breach [...]
Washington, Dec 3 (IANS) A US Congressional panel Thursday began a probe into how a celebrity couple gatecrashed into President Barack Obama’s state dinner for Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, noting there were ‘undeniable planning and execution failures’ by the Secret Service apparatus. However, the security service chief said the ‘mistake’ did not pose a risk [...]
Washington, Dec 3 (IANS) A US Congressional panel Thursday began a probe into how a celebrity couple gatecrashed into President Barack Obama’s state dinner for Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, noting there were ‘undeniable planning and execution failures’ by the Secret Service apparatus.
The probe began with the key players absent.
As the House Homeland Security Committee began [...]
Washington, Nov 19 (IANS) The Obamas will be holding their first official dinner for visiting Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh not in the State Dining Room, but in an elaborate white tent erected on the South Lawn of the White House.
President Barrack Obama and first lady Michelle have chosen to go for the tent much [...]
Washington, Nov 19 (IANS) The Obamas will be holding their first official dinner for visiting Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh not in the State Dining Room, but in an elaborate white tent erected on the South Lawn of the White House.
President Barrack Obama and first lady Michelle have chosen to go for the tent much [...]
Washington, Nov. 3 (ANI): US First Lady Michelle Obama has launched a mentoring program, under which 20 high school girls will be mentored by top White House officials to help them in life skills.
Obama told the girls that she wanted to use her platform as first lady to “expand the mentoring role.”
“In every [...]
