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FABULOUS White House visit!
Melinda Bates, Ultimate White House Insider, goes back to the White House for an East Room event with President Obama, rekindles great memories of her eight exciting years working out of the East Wing.
Happy Birthday White House!
Today, October 13, is the birthday of the White House! She is 217 years old, as dated from the laying of the cornerstone (that nobody can now find). I called the White House to see how they’re celebrating this date, but they knew nothing about it. Too bad! In OUR first year at the White [...]
Art in the White House
There’s a story in the October 6 Washington Post about art selected by the President and Mrs. Obama for use in the private Residence and East and West Wing offices. Most people don’t know about programs providing loans of art from American museums to the White House and embassies around the world. Presidents (really First [...]
Lunch with Dr. Ruth
Dr. Ruth Westheimer, the famous sex advisor, comes to the White House one day, and ends up in my office. (I never know exactly why.) I shake her tiny hand and think, Gosh, I didn’t know Chanel made suits in children’s sizes! I guess she must have them custom made. I guess she must have [...]
You Heard it Here First, Yeltsin Edition!
It’s interesting that the news this week has focused on a particular story in the Clinton Tapes – the one about Russian President Boris Yeltsin being drunk during his White House visit. But those who’ve read White House Story, a Democratic Memoir, were already in the know, ‘cause I tell this story in a lot [...]
Welcome to the Ultimate White House Insider blog!
Thanks to my eight amazing years working in the heart of the Clinton administration, I’m THE expert on how the White House really works, what happens when it doesn’t, and who comes to visit (hint: EVERYONE!) Here in the blog I’ll be telling some of those intimate, back stage stories, and commenting on the news [...]