![]() Hu’s visit to press China to open its markets to goods made by American companies. The guest list was heavy on Chinese-Americans and corporate executives - no surprise, given that President Obama used Mr. The entertainment, in the White House East Room, was the most quintessential of American music - a parade of jazz greats, including Herbie Hancock. The theme for the evening was “quintessentially American,” with a menu that featured farm-fresh vegetables, poached Maine lobster, dry-aged rib-eye with buttermilk crisp onions, topped off by old-fashioned apple pie with ice cream. The White House was especially private about the planning, for fear of saying or doing something that might offend the Chinese. All made it through an intense winnowing-down process by a White House confronted by some of toughest jockeying for invitations in recent memory. The 225 guests at Wednesday night’s White House affair were, in a certain sense, survivors. “You can’t compete against President Carter and President Clinton. Kwok, a longtime advocate for Asian-Americans who lives in San Francisco. “I’m extremely happy for some of my friends that got to go tonight,” said Ms. Obama named her last July to head the White House Advisory Commission on Asian-Americans and Pacific Islanders. Hochberg, the chairman of the Export-Import Bank, did not make the list for President Obama’s state dinner for President Hu Jintao of China, even though trade was a major theme of the day. So were the singer Barbra Streisand, the ice skater Michelle Kwan, the cellist Yo-Yo Ma, the architect Maya Lin and the fashion designer Vera Wang.īut Fred P. The heads of Microsoft, Boeing, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase and Walt Disney were on the list. So did Bill Clinton and his wife, the secretary of state. WASHINGTON - Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter made the cut. ![]()
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