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White Tie Night at The White House
Tonight, this is the throne, the actual chair Queen Elizabeth will sit on during the White House white-tie dinner in her honor.
Laura Bush hosted an afternoon preview of the event, reminding reporters that President Bush was not overly excited about a white-tie dinner but playing along nicely.
“I will tell you that we did have to talk the president into white tie. … Dr. (Condoleezza) Rice and I took it upon ourselves to talk him into it, because we thought if we were ever going to have a white tie event, this would be the one,” Mrs. Bush said. “And so he was glad to wear white tie. But I don’t know about the rest of our guests, especially the ones from Texas. They’re probably having to go out and rent theirs this afternoon.”
The president will sit between the queen and Nancy Reagan. At a neighboring table, Mrs. Bush will be between Prince Philip and Sir David Manning, the UK’s amabassador to the USA.
Special guest: Calvin Borel, the jockey who rode Street Sense to victory in Saturday’s Kentucky Derby.
Tonight’s entertainer: Itzhak Perlman, virtuoso of the violin. (Memo to president: Charlie Daniels wasn’t available.)
Main course: Saddle of spring lamb
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