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White House

February 21, 2009 by Simon Mainwaring

This blog begins with a happy conspiracy of circumstances that led me to D.C. and, ultimately, through the kindness of others, to this wonderful room at the Hay-Adam’s Hotel. As an Australian, I knew little about the hotel until the First Family stayed there in the weeks before President Obama’s inauguration. To find myself in […]

This blog begins with a happy conspiracy of circumstances that led me to D.C. and, ultimately, through the kindness of others, to this wonderful room at the Hay-Adam’s Hotel. As an Australian, I knew little about the hotel until the First Family stayed there in the weeks before President Obama’s inauguration. To find myself in …

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