Word: dinner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Even for White House Chef Henry Haller, preparing a sit-down dinner for 1,340 people who were dropping by on short notice was a bit of a challenge. The 1,100 Ibs. of strip sirloin had to be cooked at the Mayflower Hotel, six blocks away because the Executive Mansion did not have enough oven space. One other problem was that 110 of the meals had to be kosher. Schleiders Caterers of Baltimore did not get the call until Saturday, but they were able to prepare kosher meals similar to the regular fare that would be served...
...largest dinner in White House history was also a once-in-a-lifetime test for White House Social Secretary Gretchen Poston. Presidential aides had worked up a guest list that included, in addition to the Egyptian and Israeli delegations, past or potential political supporters of Jimmy Carter (politics is never far from the mind of a White House aide), Arab and Jewish leaders in the U.S., business and labor moguls, congressional leaders and members of the press corps. Poston stayed up all night Sunday working out the seating arrangements at the 134 tables. Secretaries were frantically typing the 15-page...
...helped raise money for the gala. Acting on White House authority, he persuaded at least 13 companies and banks (including Xerox, Bank of America and Chase Manhattan Bank) to ante up 5,000 tax-deductible dollars apiece. The White House did not say how much it raised for the dinner, which cost more than $80,000. Anything extra would come out of the State Department's entertainment budget. When questions were raised about the propriety of soliciting private cash, the White House pointed out that previous Presidents had raised money for special purposes, such as furniture or swimming pools...
...celebration. "Composing a concert is like composing a menu," he announced, explaining his choices of Debussy, Bach, Rachmaninoff, Mozart and Schubert. "I believe in musical digestion. If you start with light pieces and play a 45-minute sonata after the interlude, it's like starting dinner with hors d'oeuvres and dessert and finishing with a Chateaubriand and vegetables...
...writer requested to speak with student writers about the problems of writing. I signed up and entered the room where the meeting was held in a mood of excited expectation that the meeting with someone whose work you admire inspires. She arrived a half-hour late, coming from a dinner held in her honor and accompanied by a woman described as a dear friend whose wrist the elderly writer clasped throughout the evening, as if for strength. An adulatory hush came over the room as she began to speak in her rambling, stammering, repetitive way. After about twenty minutes...