Her dress was perfect. Her protocol was anything but.
Desiree
Rogers, the White House social secretary, thought she was the belle of
the ball at last week's state dinner -- gussied up in a spectacular
Comme des Garçons gown and seating herself as if she were an honored
guest.
It would have been a perfect affair for the woman in
charge of the whole shebang had it not been for two publicity-hungry
social climbers who crashed the party and put new focus on her own
attention-seeking ways.
Now Rogers, a friend of President Obama's
family for decades and officially in charge of the first family's
social lives, is skipping a House Committee on Homeland Security hearing
into how reality-TV aspirants Tareq and Michaele Salahi waltzed into
the gala.
Unlike at past state dinners, Rogers assigned no White
House aides to vet guests before they went through security. Just as
unusual, she was named as an invited guest rather than a staffer.
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