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Bali White

White was invited to The White House Office of Public Engagement's A Policy Briefing for Black LGBT Emerging Leaders.

Charleston County Courthouse

It was a likely model for Hoban's most famous building, The White House and both buildings are modelled after Leinster House, the current seat of the Irish Parliament in Dublin.

Harvey Lembeck

President Lyndon Johnson chose this company to give a command performance at the White House.

I'd Rather Go Blind

Tedeschi and Allman Brother's guitarists Derek Trucks and Warren Haynes performed their version of I'd Rather Go Blind at The White House's Red White and Blues event.

Johnny Rutherford

Rutherford, whom has been invited to The White House on behalf of Indy on multiple occasions, is considered a popular ambassador and spokesman for the sport of Indy car racing.

Miriam Sharpe

In the weeks following the Stamford disaster she managed to create a support base that would gather hundreds to march on the White House, influence super-humans and eventually convince congress and the president to pass the superhuman registration act.

Oliver McGee

McGee is the former United States Deputy Assistant Secretary of Transportation for Technology Policy (1999-2001) at the U.S. Department of Transportation and former Senior Policy Advisor (1997-1999) in The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.

Robert Schöller

In 1986, he was asked by The White House to paint the official portrait of George Washington to commemorate the Bicentennial Celebration of the U.S. Constitution.

Steve Dallas

He once went so far as to say that, "My God. We've got to get Carter back in the White House" after associating Ronald Reagan's presidency with the end of the Sexual revolution and therefor the end of his conquests at "Bob's Bar & Flesh Market".

Tim Battersby

at The White House 6 times, as well as The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, The Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center,The Filene Center at Wolf Trap, The Savannah Music Festival, and Charleston's Piccolo Spoleto Festival.

TWH

The White House, the official residence and principal workplace of the President of the United States

Where Are You, Christmas?

In 2008, the song was performed by Kaitlyn Maher in a live show at The White House, at the lighting of the National Christmas Tree on December 4, 2008 which was attended by President George W. Bush.


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43rd Sustainment Brigade

Operation Restore Hope was declared a success in May 1993 and President Clinton celebrated on the White House lawn with Marine Corps Lieutenant General Robert B. Johnston and other Somalia veterans.

Abraham Shemtov

He regularly leads Chabad-Lubavitch delegations to the White House and played a pivotal role in the relationships formed between Schneerson and U.S. Presidents Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama.

Ace Combat: Assault Horizon

Bishop keeps Markov locked in a duel, eventually ending up at the White House; Markov manages to fire the missile before being shot down and killed, but Bishop manages to intercept it and destroy it harmlessly onto the Tidal Basin.

Azerbaijan International

Photo book commemorating President Heydar Aliyev’s first official visit to the White House to meet with US President Bill Clinton.

Bobby Pittman

In this position, he helped plan and advise the White House on the 2003 U.S. intervention in Liberia, was a member of the working group that designed the Millennium Challenge Account initiative and assisted in organizing the U.S.-Africa Trade and Economic Cooperation Forum (African Growth and Opportunity Act Forum).

Brad Marchand

Many broadcasters refer to him as "The Little Ball of Hate.", a nickname also quoted by President Barack Obama during the Bruins' visit to the White House to celebrate their 2011 Stanley Cup win.

C. J. Cregg

Kept out of the loop with regard to the 1993 assassination attempt on former President George H. W. Bush, Myers assured the press that there would be no more news coming out of the White House hours before the United States bombed Baghdad.

Cherokee Nation

Kimberly Teehee (b. 1969/70), senior policy advisor for Native American Affairs in the White House Domestic Policy Council

Chicken Kiev speech

As his motorcade passed through Kiev, it was greeted by large numbers of people waving Ukrainian and American flags but also protesters bearing slogans such as "Mr. Bush: billions for the USSR is slavery for Ukraine" and "The White House deals with Communists but snubs Rukh," the principal pro-independence party in Ukraine.

Children's Craniofacial Association

During that week, she joined ten families on a visit to the White House hosted by then, First Lady, Barbara Bush.

Cyrus Wadia

Dr. Cyrus Wadia is the Assistant Director for Clean Energy & Materials R&D with the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) where he works on Federal policies to accelerate innovation and deployment of advanced material systems for clean energy, national security, and human welfare.

Decadal Planning Team

DPT was quietly chartered in spring, 1999, by then-NASA Administrator Daniel Goldin, in coordination with the White House Office of Management and Budget, and led jointly by the NASA Headquarters Offices of Human Spaceflight and Space Science.

Dewey Defeats Truman

Instead of a Republican sweep of the White House and hold of both houses of Congress, the Democrats not only won the Presidency but also took over control of the Senate and the House of Representatives.

Director of National Intelligence Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technologies

The group included former counter-terrorism czar Richard A. Clarke, former Acting CIA director Michael Morell, University of Chicago Law professor Geoffrey Stone, former administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs Cass Sunstein and former Chief Counselor for Privacy in the Office of Management and Budget Peter Swire.

Emanuel Vardi

He had the distinction of being asked to perform a solo recital at the White House for President Franklin D. Roosevelt during World War II.

Eric Gioia

He worked as a law clerk in the White House under President Bill Clinton.

Ernest Gimson

; Inglewood (1892) and The White House (1898): in the prosperous Leicester suburb of Stoneygate;

Evelyn S. Lieberman

While serving as Deputy Chief of Staff, Lieberman, with the approval of Panetta, transferred Monica Lewinsky—the former intern later found to have had an inappropriate relationship with the President—out of the White House into the United States Defense Department Public Affairs office.

Frank Fools Crow

Hank Adams, the personal representative of the President, arrived with an agreement to the proposal that the chiefs had sent to the White House on May 3.

George Bodington

At some point the asylum was moved to the White House, Maney, which was demolished in 1935 to provide a site for an Odeon cinema (now part of the Empire Cinemas group).

George Heron Milne

Rep. Daniel A. Reed of New York said that Milne, as a child, visited the White House on many occasions with his father and “developed a mutual friendship” with the children of President Theodore Roosevelt.

Jason and Iyare

Ollie Twist is currently organizing and running Fibre with Kiss FM's Manny Norte, Steve Feelgood and Hasangi at the White House in Clapham Common on the first Wednesday of the month.

Jeremy Bernard

He worked in the Obama Administration in Washington as the White House liaison to the National Endowment for the Humanities and later, in Paris, as senior adviser to the U.S. Ambassador to France.

Jill Stein

And that’s true, for the environmental movement, the student movement, the antiwar movement, health-care-as-a-human-right movement—you put us all together, we have the potential for a Tahrir Square type event, and to turn the White House into a Green House in November.

John Bemelmans Marciano

The grandson of Ludwig Bemelmans, the creator of the children's book series Madeline, he has continued the series with two books written and illustrated in his grandfather's style: Madeline and the Cats of Rome and Madeline at the White House.

Lee S. Wolosky

Wolosky's work at the White House also included directing sensitive operations, including leading U.S. government efforts to apprehend "Merchant of Death" Viktor Bout, the Taliban and al Qaeda-linked arms trafficker, who is now awaiting trial in New York.

Lucy Webb Hayes

As First Lady, Hayes brought her zeal to the White House and supported her husband's ban of alcoholic beverages at state functions, excepting only the reception for Grand Duke Alexei Alexandrovich of Russia in 1877, at which wine was served.

Manuel V. Domenech

Another relative, Douglas Domenech, his grand nephew, served as the Deputy Chief of Staff of the United States Department of the Interior and a Bush appointee to the White House Task Force on Puerto Rico's Political Status and now serves as Secretary of Naturl Resources of the Commonwealth of Virginia.

Margaret Rogers

Her years of service were memorialized in the book My Thirty Years Backstairs at the White House by her daughter, Lillian Rogers Parks, who worked as a seamstress, also in the White House.

Mark Chmura

In 1997, Chmura chose not to meet with United States President Bill Clinton at the White House following the Packers Super Bowl XXXI win.

Mark Goffman

He has written speeches for state and federally elected officials, consulted to the United States Department of State and the White House.

Miss Amy

Miss Amy performed as part of the White House 2010 Egg Roll event on April 5, 2010 where the theme was based on the Let's Move! initiative of First Lady Michelle Obama.

Moises Vela

He is the first Hispanic to serve in two senior executive roles in the White House, first during the Clinton Administration as Chief Financial Officer and Senior Advisor on Latino Affairs in the Office of Vice President Al Gore, and later during the Obama Administration as Director of Administration for Joe Biden, the Vice President of the United States.

Operation Solomon

Also involved in the Israeli and Ethiopian governments’ attempts to facilitate the operation was a group of American diplomats led by Senator Rudy Boschwitz, including Irvin Hicks, a Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs; Robert Frasure, the Director of the African Affairs at the White House National Security Council; and Robert Houdek the Chargé d'Affaires of the United States Embassy in Addis Ababa.

Patrick D. Gallagher

Currently, he serves as co-chair of the Standards Subcommittee under the White House National Science and Technology Council.

Paul Sperry

A White House spokesman said, "The President does not regret making those comments," and Sperry said Press Secretary Joe Lockhart personally told him he would never be invited back to the White House.

R. P. Eddy

After leaving the White House, Eddy served on behalf of the US government as Chief of Staff to US Ambassador Richard Holbrooke while Holbrooke served as the United States Ambassador to the United Nations.

Richard and Linda J. Eyre

During the Reagan administration, Eyre served as the director of the White House Conference on Parents and Children.

Robin Mackintosh

He won a Philadelphia Emmy Award in 1986 for feature reporting; a Pennsylvania Associated Press Broadcasters Association Award for spot news and, in 1983, a special honor presented by President Ronald Reagan at the White House for a series on volunteerism.

Rosario Marin

Despite receiving an implied endorsement from the White House as the preferred candidate, Marin was attacked by her fellow Republicans, in particular, former California Secretary of State Bill Jones, the leading candidate for the GOP nod, for her perceived waffling on another hot button immigration issue: driver's licenses for illegal immigrants.

Sister Parish

In addition to the White House, Parish's clients included the philanthropist Jane Engelhard and the socialite and art collector Betsey Cushing Roosevelt Whitney, Annette de la Renta, Alice Rogers, Mrs. Charles Percy, were also clients.

T. Michael Kerr

He has also conducted political and legislative work for the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees both before and after working in the White House Office of Consumer Affairs for the Carter administration.

Tite Street

Whistler instructed Edward William Godwin to build the White House here, but due to his bankruptcy after his legal case with John Ruskin, he was never able to occupy it; the building was demolished in 1968.

Transcarpathian Art Institute

In the center of Mukachevo classrooms located in the "White House" Rakoczy family, which was built in the mid-17th century, as the residence of Transylvanian Princes.

White House Conference on Children and Youth

The White House Conference on Children and Youth was a series of meetings hosted over 70 years by the President of the United States of America, and the first White House conference ever held.

White House Historical Association

The association produces and publishes books and videos on the history, architecture, and decorative arts of the White House, and the semi-annual journal White House History.

White House Military Office

The White House Military Office is the subject of an episode of Major Dad titled "General Disturbance", which originally aired on April 9, 1993.

White House Visitors Office

In April 1995 the current White House Visitor Center facility was opened in the Herbert C. Hoover Building, two blocks from the White House.