The phone rang, and the lady of the house plodded into the kitchen, placing the daintily held, paper-towel-wrapped turds on the counter.
The White House historically extends invitations to ordinary people to join the first lady in the public gallery of the House chamber during the speech, believing they can help put a human face on an issue or proposal the president will discuss during his annual address.
"Firefighters in breathing apparatus had to combat quite dense smoke and they found the young lady on the first floor of the house, apparently unconscious, " he said.
To defend itself against Mr Starr's subpoenas, the White House is asserting a broad view of executive privilege: it argues that not only the president, but also the first lady and certain members of the White House staff, should be allowed to hold consultations without fear that their contents will later be subpoenaed.
Tina Tchen is Assistant to the President, Chief of Staff to the First Lady, and Executive Director of the White House Council on Women and Girls.
The First Lady, the official hostess of the White House, can support a variety of issues her role, but the sphere of influence each woman has shifts depending on the term.
In the evening, the President and the First Lady will host a farewell dinner for Secretary of Defense Robert Gates at the White House.
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The President and First Lady will welcome President Sarkozy of France to the White House on Tuesday, March 30th, for a meeting and a private dinner.
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If past bipartisan practice is any guide, one or more extraordinary individual in uniform will grace the First Lady's box in the House gallery, perhaps bearing the scars of terrible wounds suffered in the line of duty.
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The place also has a house band residents who recorded an album featuring both covers ("You Are My Sunshine") and originals ("The Naughty Lady of Flushing House").
Prime Minister David Cameron is leading tributes to Lady Thatcher in the House of Commons, with Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg and Labour leader Ed Miliband among those who will also speak.
Tonight the President and First Lady will host the "In Performance at the White House: A Celebration of Music from the Civil Rights Movement" concert, featuring songs from the Civil Rights Movement as well as readings from famous Civil Rights speeches and writings with participants including Bob Dylan, Jennifer Hudson, Smokey Robinson, Robert De Niro, Morgan Freeman and more.
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And one of the things I did -- the very first -- one of the very first things I did when I became First Lady and we moved into the White House was that we planted this wonderful garden.
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The Georgian, Grade II-listed Lady Gillford's House has been transformed from a state of dereliction over the past nine years to become the focal point of the archive.
Tomorrow the President and the First Lady, as you know, will welcome Prime Minister Singh of India and his wife to the White House for the first official visit.
My wife and I were proud to help strengthen those ties when we had the honor of hosting President Lee and First Lady Kim for a state visit at the White House last fall.
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Then he led the traditional parade up Pennsylvania Avenue, stopping near the White House to walk a few blocks of the route with first lady Michelle Obama to the cheers of those lining the sidewalks.
Labour's leader in the House of Lords, Lady Jay, is giving up her job, and Mo Mowlam decided when she was recalled from Northern Ireland that she would retire after this election.
McChrystal and the White House moved beyond the matter a year later, when the Pentagon cleared his staff of any wrongdoing, and first lady Michelle Obama invited McChrystal to serve on the board of Joining Forces, a White House initiative for troops and their families.
Earlier in the morning, he and first lady Michelle Obama hosted a breakfast at the White House with "Gold Star" families of service members who have been killed.
After the service, the president and first lady were planning to visit privately with relatives and friends of firefighters killed in the explosion, the White House said.
She grew up in the Blue House and served as her father's first lady for the last five years of his rule, after her mother was killed in 1974 by an assassin who said he was sent by North Korea.
It helped that First Lady Michelle Obama announced the launch of the fund at the White House in July.
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From the age of six he had walked to school in Clarksdale, Mississippi, past the house of a middle-aged lady called Miss Boozie.
The schedule for the week of April 25, 2011: On Monday, the President and the First Lady will host the 2011 White House Easter Egg Roll on the South Lawn.
While the former first lady, senator, presidential candidate and secretary of state says she has no plans to run again for the White House, she hasn't ruled out a bid, and if she did run, she'd be the early favorite to win her party's nomination.
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They do not want to see a first lady with a headscarf in Cankaya, in the White House of Turkey, so to say.
Now I bring good news - Lady Margaret Thatcher and a defense study group of the House of Lords have endorsed U.S. missile defenses.
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