Topic: The White House
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Despite the best efforts of right-wing pundits and contradicting earlier reports, controversial rapper Common went through with his White House appearance at Michelle Obama's poetry event Wednesday.Earlier reports suggested that he wasn't there, but a White House ...
The White House Wednesday defended its decision to invite hip-hop artist Common to a poetry evening, after conservatives complained some of his lyrics celebrated violence.White House spokesman Jay Carney said President Barack Obama did not support any lyrics that glorified violence, and ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters Life!) - Actress Meryl Streep, singer-songwriter James Taylor and author Joyce Carol Oates are among the cultural luminaries named as recipients of prestigious White House awards for the arts and humanities.President Barack Obama is slated to formally present the 2010 ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama may have inadvertently stolen an author's thunder on Tuesday when he told the country that someone is working on a book about the 10 letters from regular Americans that he reads every night.Obama has been receiving ...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The former top U.S. general in Afghanistan Stanley McChrystal, who was fired when he enraged the White House by disparaging the Obama administration in a magazine article, will publish his first memoir, the Penguin Group said on Wednesday.The ...
Pulitzer Prize -winning author Ron Suskind writes in his new book, The Way of the World , that Think Progress: White House Ordered Forged, Backdated Letter After Invasion To Concoct Saddam-9/11 Link (August 5, 2008)
The National Children's Museum will celebrate Family Literacy Month, observed every November, by hosting a special event entitled " The White House on the Waterfront" to promote literacy and education among children and families. On November 13-14, 2010, nationally award-winning children's book ...
There are no more beautiful words in a song than those written by a simple man they called Levi Celerio. The 43-year-old journalist was born in Manila but grew up in the United States. As a part of the minority group in ...
Schuster seems to be confident that the forthcoming investigative work on the Bush administration by Bob will be a bestseller. A Secret White House History 2006-2008" is set to have an intial print run of 900,000 copies. This is Woodward's fourth book ...
With all the buzz about President Bill Clinton's memoir, a lot of us are wondering about this unique kind of text. In the preface to his two-volume, 1,000-plus page memoir, Harry S. Truman writes: Several presidents have made reference to reading the ...
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President Obama sings Sweet Home Chicago!
Blues night at the White House, February 21, 2012. See ...2012-02-22 -
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President Obama at the 2011 White House Correspondents' Dinner. View ...2011-05-01 -
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The President meets an 8th grader named Joey from Phoenix ...2012-02-07
