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17 Facts about State Visits by Foreign Rulers to the White House Most People Don’t Know

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Where do we find this stuff? Here are our sources:

“Satow’s Diplomatic Practice”, Ivor Roberts, Oxford University Press (2011)

“World: How The U.S. Ranks the Visits of Foreign Heads of State”, Julie Moffett, Radio Free Europe (August 9, 1997)

“White House Dinner, But What Kind?”, Marian Burros, The New York Times (November 24, 1993)

“King Kalakaua Goes to Washington, 1874”, Ishaan Tharoor, Time Magazine (January 10, 2011)

“The White House’s Dinner Theater”, Bob Colacello, Vanity Fair (May 11, 2010)

“Notable State Dinners at the White House”, White House Historical Association.

“Visits to the U.S. by Foreign Heads of State and Government: 1874-1939”, United States State Department”.

“When Leaders From Abroad Come to Call”, Barbara Gamareikan, The New York Times (July 20, 1986)

“Brazil’s Rousseff cancels state visit to U.S. over spying report”, Reuters (September 17, 2013)

“United States Protocol”, Mary Mel French, Rowman and Littlefield (2010)

“Yankee Doodle is Dandied!”, Lesa Jansen, CNN (March 12, 2012)

“Lincoln Didn’t Sleep Here But Clinton Friends Do”, Angie Cannon, Chicago Tribune (March 4, 1994)

“What’s it like to attend an official state luncheon for a visiting head of state”, Daniel Drezner, The Washington Post (September 28, 2015)

“A Brief History of White House State Dinners”, Time Magazine

“The White House: Actors and Observers”, William Seale, White House Historical Association (2002)

“White House: Serving Up Food and Emily Post”, Marian Burros, The New York Times (March 31, 1986)

“When Washington Was Fun”, Maureen Orth, Vanity Fair (December 2007)

“The Dinner Table can be a Wonderland”, Linda Brandt, Herald-Tribune (June 23, 2010)

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