Are you ready to attend a state dinner?

[babylonsister]

:D

Managing the Highest-Profile Social Scene
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Voices of Power: Desiree Rogers, Obama¹s White House CEO
White House social secretary Desiree Rogers is making the president's house a place where "East meets West" and where business meets social.

By Lois Romano
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, February 27, 2009; Page A15


She ran a billion-dollar utility company in Chicago and now is the most influential event planner on the planet, a woman empowered to use 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue to set the cultural tone for the Obama era.

Desiree Rogers, 49, is the White House's glamorous new social secretary, a title that belies the magnitude of the job. She is responsible for arranging all the high-profile ceremonies and dinners for the first couple, and she has the power to summon the world's top cultural icons on short notice.

No detail escapes her eye. She says she is planning for the first time to ask the public to sign up on the Internet for the annual White House Easter Egg Roll instead of forcing 36,000 people to wait in line and she wants to have a regular online lottery to get ordinary Americans to state dinners. While her responsibilities are different from those she had as a prominent African American businesswoman, she candidly says, "Had I not had that experience, I would not be able to do this job. The jobs I've had have given me a certain amount of maturity to be able to handle all of the input."

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[Jennicut]

1. Nice to see the Obamas want real regular people at their state dinners.

[Egnever]

2. Someone stop the madness!

I don't know how much more of this incredible decency I can take!

[babylonsister]

6. Me neither! It's mind numbing! nt

[Cha]

3. How unique, afaik..

But, we knew Desiree Rogers would be.

[TheWraith]

4. That's too damn wonderful for words.

I can't wait for the state dinner drawings.

[Mist]

5. Great idea for the Easter Egg hunt! nt

[monmouth]

7. I have a lovely outfit with matching shoes I purchased before I didn't

get my actual invite to the Inaugural partie(s)...LOL. I would be so there.

[babylonsister]

9. Now, who would you like to be seated next to, since

we're probably pretty much all dreaming? What might you discuss with the Queen of England?

[monmouth]

10. Since I'm originally from NJ, I think Rahm and I would get along great...LOL..n/t

[firedupdem]

8. I would love to go to a state dinner! They would probably have

to haul me out of there for asking too many questions!