{"id":576957,"date":"2010-05-24T17:19:13","date_gmt":"2010-05-24T21:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogs.suntimes.com,2010:\/sweet\/\/25.35199"},"modified":"2010-05-24T17:23:44","modified_gmt":"2010-05-24T21:23:44","slug":"desiree-rogers-welcomes-julianna-smoot-to-the-white-house-social-secretary-sisterhood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/576957","title":{"rendered":"Desiree Rogers welcomes Julianna Smoot to the White House Social Secretary &#8220;sisterhood&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nWASHINGTON&#8211;Former White House Social Secretary Desiree Rogers on Saturday hosted <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politicsdaily.com\/2010\/05\/24\/desiree-rogers-hosts-lunch-for-new-social-secretary-julianna-smo\/\">a welcome lunch for her <\/a>successor, Julianna Smoot at a hotel here.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;It was a wonderful celebration welcoming Julianna to the social secretaries sisterhood,&#8221; Rogers told me.<\/p>\n<p>Hosting a lunch for the new Social Secretary is a tradition started in the 1990s by former Clinton White House Social Secretary Ann Stock. The lunch took place days after Smoot&#8217;s first State Dinner, hosted by President Obama and First Lady Michelle for Mexico President Felipe Calderon and his wife, Margarita Zavala.<\/p>\n<p>Rogers threw the lunch bash at the Jefferson Hotel; her menu included green salad, crab cakes or chicken, with sorbet and berries for dessert.  <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Others attending were Ann Stock, a Social Secretary  in the Clinton White House, nominated by Obama to be Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs; Capricia Marshall, also from the Clinton White House and now the Chief of Protocol at the Department of State; Amy Zantzinger, who served under President Bush and First Lady Laura Bush and Cathy Fenton, who also came out of the George W. Bush White House. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politicsdaily.com\/2010\/05\/24\/desiree-rogers-hosts-lunch-for-new-social-secretary-julianna-smo\/\">For more details, click here.<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.politicsdaily.com\/2010\/05\/24\/desiree-rogers-hosts-lunch-for-new-social-secretary-julianna-smo\/\"\"><br \/>\nSaid Zantzinger,<\/a>  &#8220;I think it is nice for the incoming Social Secretary to see the support system she has in place.&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON&#8211;Former White House Social Secretary Desiree Rogers on Saturday hosted a welcome lunch for her successor, Julianna Smoot at a hotel here. &#8220;It was a wonderful celebration welcoming Julianna to the social secretaries sisterhood,&#8221; Rogers told me. Hosting a lunch for the new Social Secretary is a tradition started in the 1990s by former Clinton [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4220,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-576957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4220"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=576957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576957\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=576957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=576957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=576957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}