Sentences with phrase «white house years»

Reed, who passed away on September 26, was a renowned painter of the Washington Color School, a visual - arts renaissance occurring in an unlikely place around and just after the Kennedy White House years.

Largely under the radar during Kennedy's White House years was the president's womanizing.

The abundant energy, charm, accomplishments, and foibles of America's youngest president are chronicled in this engrossing account of Theodore Roosevelt's White House years.

Now that she's politician Henry Francis» wife, Betty's wardrobe has taken a more patrician turn (think Jackie Kennedy during the White House years).

Ferguson meets the nation's top Lincoln collector, a California woman whose massive inventory of rare and valuable Lincoln memorabilia includes a pair of Mary Todd Lincoln's underpants and the chamber pot that served Lincoln during his White House years.

Such pious talk marks a departure from how the president discussed his faith life before his White House years.

Before joining the White House this year, Delrahim served as an antitrust lobbyist for Comcast *, which purchased NBCUniversal in 2011, and he also worked the halls of Congress and the federal government on behalf of Qualcomm, federal records show.

The Red Sox are visiting the White House this year as a result of winning the 2013 World Series.

It is highly unlikely that if Clinton were to throw her hat into the presidential race the next go - around that Cuomo, who served in her husband's cabinet as HUD secretary for four years, would not seek the White House that year.

A separate, as - yet unpublished analysis by the team suggests that the trend towards extreme candidates favoured Republicans in presidential elections from 2000 to 2016 — perhaps enough to win Trump the White House this year.

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The controversial Keystone XL oil pipeline is up for review again by the White House this year.

This isn't the first — or even fourth — attack on reproductive health we've seen from politicians in Congress and the White House this year.

With a new president in the White House this year, Charlie Bengel, Jr., CEO of RE / MAX Allegiance, serving the immediate D.C. metro market, admits that there are concerns about decisions that may impact proposed cuts to some federal agencies.

Not exact matches

Members of the Trump administration walked out of the White House Correspondents» Dinner Saturday night during a performance by standup comic Michelle Wolf, who attacked the administration's relationship to the truth as well as the past behavior of the president, who did not attend the event for the second year in a row.

After Trump won the White House in 2016, in part with the firms help, Cambridge Analytica CEO Alexander Nix went to more clients to pitch his services, the Times reported last year.

The White House released its fiscal year 2014 budget proposal today.

«She had been interested in literacy for years before she was First Lady and her interest continued after she left the White House.»

This year's poor performance - only six House seats gained, two Senate seats added, and the White House lost - caused a revolt among House Democrats after the election.

President Donald Trump asked the White House counsel, Donald McGahn, to call the Department of Justice last year and ask a senior official to persuade then - FBI director James Comey to publicly clear the president of wrongdoing in the Russia probe, The Washington Post reported.

In November 2008, an election year that swept a barrier - breaking dynamo of the opposite party into the White House and pumped Democratic numbers in the chamber to 59 (and soon after, a filibuster - proof 60), McConnell barely eked out a win.

«It is important that we achieve a two - year agreement that funds our troops and provides for our national security and other critical functions of the Federal government,» the statement from the White House, House Speaker Paul Ryan, and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said.

«Last year, the President kept his promise to end the TPP deal negotiated by the Obama Administration because it was unfair to American workers and farmers,» White House Deputy Press Secretary Lindsay Walters said in a statement Thursday.

He is the author of Family of Secrets: The Bush Dynasty, the Powerful Forces That Put It in the White House, and What Their Influence Means for America (Bloomsbury Press, 2009); it was released in paperback as Family of Secrets: The Bush Dynasty, America's Invisible Government and the Secret History of the Last Fifty Years.

President Donald Trump's staff did not want him to attend last year's White House Correspondents» Dinner, because they were «terrified that he would die up there in front of a seething and contemptuous audience.»

The health law's open enrollment season launched in November and has already been curtailed by the White House relative to the past few years.

Dimon may have previously expressed disagreement with certain White House policies, but he has largely refrained from criticizing Trump, saying last year that, as the president, he is «the pilot flying our airplane.»

This year's finalist group will attend an event at the White House where one winner will be announced on Friday, May 8.

In February of last year, the U.S. airline CEOs met with President Donald Trump at the White House and asked him to push Middle Eastern carriers to comply with Open Skies agreements designed to ensure all airlines compete on a level playing field.

But Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant, whose state faced a revenue shortfall of $ 116 million last year, was effusive about the White House's plan during the meeting Monday.

At last year's gathering, Trump was unofficially represented by hedge fund manager Anthony Scaramucci, who would later last just 10 days as the White House communications director.

This may be the last year Kenny, Ireland's leader since 2011, makes the White House pilgrimage on behalf of Ireland.

Some of Trump's allies say it would be a «lethal» mistake for the president to oust Kelly, who many feel is a stabilizing force within the White House and helped quell some of the backbiting that plagued the administration for much of its first year.

At the White House's first United States of Women Summit in 2016, Buffett confessed that he only thought to put a woman on the Berkshire Hathaway board in 2003 — nearly 40 years after taking over the company — by the suggestion of his wife Susie.

His role came under harsh scrutiny this year over his handling of the controversy surrounding ousted White House aide Rob Porter, who was accused of domestic abuse.

Mui joined CNBC after spending nearly 15 years at The Washington Post, most recently as White House economic policy correspondent.

Studzinski said domestically Trump has performed much better in his first year in the White House.

But does anyone think that a party still reeling from its inability to re-capture the White House that has seen a dramatic shift to the right in its core leadership in the past few years (Hint, maybe they can't see the forest for the extremely right - leaning trees) will be the party that wants credit, or the blame, for legalizing pot?

The controversy over the lack of diversity among this year's Academy Award nominees has sparked strong reactions from all corners of Hollywood, and now the discussion has made it to the White House.

Last year the White House floated further fees on million - dollar loans and investments to cover the administrative costs, although opposition in the congressional committees promptly nixed that idea.

He was addressing an intimate crowd at the StartUp Health Café in San Francisco about the White House Cancer Moonshot — the widely praised initiative he had begun leading just a year ago and that, only days from now, was slated to lose its potent «White House» prefix — when he began talking about his eldest son.

Congressional aides said that the White House had suggested a three - year extension of the DACA program in exchange for $ 25 billion in funding for the border wall, a proposal Democrats rejected.

«To everyone else at the Trump White House, I'll see you guys at the reunion in 10 years — seven with good behavior,» she said.

«Thanks in part to the forceful response to the crisis and policies throughout the eight years of the Obama administration to promote robust, shared growth, the US economy is stronger, more resilient, and better positioned for the twenty - first century than ever before,» the White House said in an email after the jobs report.

In five years, the website they created has grown from a niche audio service for techno musicians to a web platform hosting audio channels from the White House and Harvard Business Review and launching hit singles from the likes of Nine Inch Nails and Beyoncé.

Separately, the White House said a private - sector partnership connected to the Startup America program was announcing $ 1 billion in services — from free software and consulting to legal services — to 100,000 start - up companies during the next three years.

And on Monday, it involves hosting no fewer than 21,000 children and adults for the annual Easter Egg Roll, a 139 - year - old tradition and the Super Bowl of White House social events.

The Trumps announced Monday's date later than usual, and some regular participants went public with their anxiety over not hearing from the White House earlier in the year.

In March of that year, Comey rushed to the hospital bed of Attorney General John Ashcroft to physically stop White House officials in their bid to get his ailing boss to reauthorize a secret no - warrant wiretapping program.

WASHINGTON (AP)-- It's a week of reckoning for White House senior adviser Jared Kushner and dozens of other officials who have been working without permanent security clearances for the better part of a year.