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Mar 02, 2017

Tom Hanks Buys White House Press Corps A(nother) Espresso Machine

Thanks Dad!

Feb 24, 2017

White House Bans Major News Outlets From Press Briefing

CNN, The New York Times, Politico, BuzzFeed, the Daily Mail, BBC, the Los Angeles Times, and the New York Daily News were among the outlets not permitted.

Apr 29, 2016

C.J. Returns: Allison Janney Reprises Her ‘West Wing’ Character At The White House

Almost exactly a decade since West Wing aired its last episode, actress Allison Janney showed up at a real-life White House press briefing as press secretary C.J. Cregg.

Jun 30, 2009

Obama Pushing for Statehood? That’s News to Us

Coup in Honduras? Check. Michael Jackson? Check. Health care reform? Check. The D.C. license plate? Wait; this again? That must have been what White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs was thinking during yesterday’s briefing with the press. As he dealt with the issues of the day, Gibbs was once again forced to field questions, this time from ABC News reporter Yunji de Nies, about why President Obama has so far opted not to place…

 
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