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You are cordially invited to book Melinda now for your next meeting, conference, college or university assembly. When you do, you’ll hear comments like these from your participants: “Ms. Bates certainly made us all feel like insiders with her anecdotes and treasured memories of the most famous address on the planet. Her presentation was bold [...]
I’m just back from three exciting weeks cruising and speaking aboard Celebrity’s fabulous Solstice. Our itinerary took us to the Eastern Caribbean, Western Caribbean and back to the East. I spoke multiple times each week, from my five topics, often to standing room only crowds: Back Stage at the White House (my own story), They [...]
Melinda Bates, Ultimate White House Insider, featured enrichment speaker on Celebrity cruise ship Equinox
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.
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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