Security Tight This Time at Obamas' State Dinner (206 hits)
WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House promised tighter security for Wednesday's state dinner — and it delivered.
Among the hundreds who lined up to get in, at least one woman was turned away for lack of proper ID. Kathryne Mudge said her husband, Arturo Valenzuela, an assistant secretary of state, was supposed to bring the necessary identification.
"We tried to be extra careful, but my husband is the absent-minded professor," Mudge said.
Their evening wasn't spoiled, however.
Mudge and her husband returned about an hour later and were allowed into the affair that President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama held for their Mexican counterparts, Felipe Calderon and his wife, Margarita Zavala...
For their second state dinner, Mrs. Obama recruited Chicago chef Rick Bayless — one of the couple's favorites — to prepare the meal.
