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The who's who at Obama's banquet for Manmohan | The White House released the list of expected guests for Tuesday night's state dinner. According to the Washington Post, among the expected guests at the dinner
would be Reliance Industries Chairman Mukesh Ambani, famed Hollywood director
Steven Spielberg, Gayle King, Dr.Sanjay Gupta and David Geffen. Among the others that
were expected to attend the White House veggie garden spoils hosted by President
Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama for Indian Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan
Singh and his wife Gursharan Kaur, were Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. and his wife
Dr. Jill Biden, Congressman Gary Ackerman, Indian-American hotelier Sant Singh
Chatwal, Deputy Chairman of the Indian Planning Commission Montek Singh Ahluwalia,
David Axelrod and his wife Susan Axelrod, Congressman Howard Berman and his wife
Jane Berman, Robert O Blake, Jr., Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central
Asian Affairs, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, John Brennan, Assistant to the
President for Homeland Security and Deputy National Security Advisor for
Counter-terrorism, Homeland Security Council. William Burns, Under Secretary for
Political Affairs, General James E Cartwright, Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff,
Senator Bob Casey, Rajiv Chandrasekaran, Senator Satveer Chaudhry, Energy
Secretary Steven Chu, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Senator Swati Dandekar,
Senator Chris Dodd, White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, New York Times
journalist Thomas Friedman, Dr. Ashok S Ganguly, Treasury Secretary Timothy F.
Geithner, Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm, Attorney General Eric Holder, Senator
Daniel Inouye of Hawaii, Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal, National Security Adviser
General James Jones, Senator John Kerry, Indian External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna,
Indian-American author Jhumpa Lahiri, US Commerce Secretary Gary Locke etc, were
also expected to attend. Kiran Mazumda-Shaw, Congressman Jim McDermott, Indian
businessman Sunil Bharti Mittal, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral
Michael Mullen, Homeland Secretary Janet Napolitano, Indian National Security
Adviser M.K. Narayanan, USIBC president and Pepisico Chairperson Indra Nooyi,
Massachussets Governor Deval Patrick, House of Representatives Speaker Nancy
Pelosi, telecommunications and IT honcho Sam Pitroda and Indian Foreign Secretary
Nirupama Rao were also to attend. |
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