Word: whiteness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
When Michelle Obama broke ground on the new White House vegetable garden, there was probably no one in America more elated than Alice Waters. For months, Waters had been engaged in a very public lobbying effort to get the First Family to take this step in the name of healthy, sustainable eating. The mother of the local-food movement and owner of Berkeley's famed Chez Panisse restaurant talked to TIME about President Kennedy's influence on her ideals, why she has a newfound love for the Department of Agriculture and how a well-made pasta dish can soften...
...This isn't the first time you've lobbied a President to plant a garden at the White House, right...
...several from the Clintons. Hillary ended up planting some tomatoes on the roof of the White House at one point. But down there by the Rose Garden is what really interested me. I think that speaks to a nation. (See 10 Ideas Changing the World...
...call from the White House before it happened saying it was very likely. A lot of people had given me the impression that it would happen at some point. I just didn't expect it so soon...
...question, or at least you don't have to dwell on it. You can simply say what you came to say. This is even more true when you are a popular President of the United States. So at the end of an otherwise drab and detailed jousting with the White House press corps Tuesday over policy projections and financial problems, Barack Obama seized his opportunity...