President Barack Obama now claims to be a passive bystander in the decision to close down White House tours.
The White House has effectively doubled down on a tax change it has been pushing for four years that would limit the value of the charitable tax deduction.
Other Democrats, including the chairwoman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, said the White House could calm things down if it would rule out prosecuting former top Bush Administration officials and just let a Senate investigation run its course.
With the unemployment rate at its lowest level since December 2008 and the economy adding more jobs than any major analyst estimated in February, it may strike some as odd that the White House chose to play down the number.
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With Lyndon Johnson in the White House, the party came down on the side of civil rights.
The White House, however, came down on the side of a complete federal ban on the controversial procedure.
Officials said that a number of these ideas pre-dated Kerry, but were turned down by the White House previously.
Barack Obama tonight, the man who will lead the Democratic Party in its march toward the White House, we are making a down payment on the fulfillment of that dream.
With Clinton the feeling is not that the White House is about to be brought down on his head, though that may happen, thanks to his own "gates" and Ms. Jones.
Aging Baby Boomers and their families would all be far better off if congressional critics of CLASS sat down with the White House to design a national long-term care insurance program that does work.
White House officials and their allies on Capitol Hill, including key Republican lawmakers, are increasingly optimistic the measure will pass Congress, but an administration official said the White House would not let its guard down because the number of lawmakers publicly committed to the measure was still shy of the votes necessary for passage.
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Attorney General Eric Schneiderman is here. (Applause.) The outstanding mayor of Schenectady who flew up with me because we had an event down at the White House for mayors and he was on Marine One and Air Force One and he looked like he was having a pretty good time -- (laughter) -- Brian Stratton is here. (Applause.) And from Albany, Mayor Jerry Jennings is here. (Applause.) Thank you.
The White House announced that Rob Portman was stepping down as budget director for personal reasons.
Meanwhile, White House spokesman Jay Carney sought to tone down the rhetoric over an increasingly bitter dispute with congressional Republicans over the issue.
After allowing itself to be led by the State Department, the Navy and environmentalists into backing the treaty, the White House is finding it hard to back down.
Is the report true that's published on Politico that the White House is encouraging Senator Reid to sit down and make a deal with Lieberman and give up on the Medicare expansion?
The health care initiative encountered a major hurdle last week when the Congressional Budget Office reported that the House bills would not bring down health care costs over the next 10 years, despite White House contentions that lower health costs would be a long-term effect.
On Thursday, Petraeus went to the White House and told the President he intended to step down.
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The Obama campaign, like the Bush White House, prides itself on message discipline and tracks down leakers with a frightening intensity.
Neighbors sometimes chafe at the idea of an edifice down the street the size of the White House.
With a snow storm barreling down on the Washington region, the White House said the dinner could be postponed if the weather deteriorated throughout the day.
But the house was deep in the country, with no other house in sight, and the children had been in London for two years, without so much as once going to the seaside even for a day by an excursion train, and so the White House seemed to them a sort of Fairy Palace set down in an Earthly Paradise.
In fact, when Brown talked about scrapping the health reform effort and starting over because "we can do better, " the Republican crowd started a chant that had to send a tiny shiver down the spine of even the most confident White House staffer.
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Summers is also known for being extremely brusque, reportedly having icy disagreements with several top administration officials including Romer and White House economic adviser Austan Goolsbee, who has been tapped to head the CEA. White House officials have not said if the president asked Summers to step down or whether he volunteered his resignation.
The White House's acting cyber-security head, Melissa Hathaway, stood down in August after complaining that the post did not allow her to implement necessary changes.
The Clintons played host to at least 19 gatherings that year, spanning private parties in the White House living quarters to formal black-tie dinners with a sit-down meal and dancing.
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During his run for the White House, Obama pledged to improve ties with the Muslim world, draw down U.S. troops in Iraq and close the detention camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
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Ambassador Bremer was involved in a number of lengthy meetings at the White House yesterday and after the full national security meeting, he will sit down with the president and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.
At the White House, the Secret Service expanded its security perimeter after the attacks, shutting down Pennsylvania Avenue and cordoning off the area with yellow police tape.
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