Exploring the white house visitors database
The white house visitors database contains notes about meetings with lobbyists, members of congress and celebrities including hilary rosen, left, john boehner and oprah winfrey.
A scrub of more than 2.2 million entries in our new White House visitors database yields a steady stream of lobbyists with access to the Obama administration, as
Farnam examined the visitors logs(Which you can search here)To examine how often registered lobbyists are given access to the white house and surrounding executive offices.He found frequent visits by lobbyists such as marshal matz(Lobbyist for food and agriculture interests), Bill Samuel(Afl cio)And nancy zirkin(Leadership conference on civil and human rights).
But the logs also capture the ordinary(And extraordinary)Pulse of the presidency, from state arrival ceremonies to bowling alley tours, from presidential meetings with members of michael kors crossbody bags sloan congress to hollywood celebrities.Below are details on some of the more interesting visits we found, and a guide to exploring the database on our site.
Oprah winfrey has visited the white house(That two more visits than
)Since 2009, including on april 2, 2011.Winfrey visited with michelle obama about three weeks before hosting the first couple on her talk show, where they discussed the white house release of obama birth certificate.Was born here!Michelle exclaimed.
Republicans recently pointed to a number of visits by democratic strategist hilary rosen as evidence of her close ties to the obama administration, when she made comments on cnn saying that mitt romney wife ann worked a day in her life as a stay at home michael kors sale online mother.
President obama is the first to order the release of the logs from the white house security gates, a move that the bush administration fought in court.White house spokesman eric schultz michael kors hobo bag uk said that it was done part of the president unparalleled commitment to reforming washington.Interesting tidbits:
Foreign dignitaries:According to the logs, obama has officially received at least 15, 902 visitors during since sept.15, 2009.You can find guests by country by searching for the country name and arrival.Mexico, for example, accounted for.
And help drive the biggest spikes in white house visits each year:
Names and places:The fastest way to find visits is to search for names and places.When searching for specific people, beware michael kors satchels blake of false positives.For example, a search for will return, not to be confused with the former weather underground leader william ayers.
Advanced search:Choose advanced options to search for visits on a specific date, or by visitor name, meeting place, white house staffer or meeting description.
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We also interested in hearing about who you find in the logs.An interesting place to start might be the list of obama top campaign fundraisers or for 2008 and 2012.Or perhaps the lobbyists registered to sway public policy for.
The logs have very little context for what the visits are actually about.However, you can divine some clues from who else was in the meeting.Take for example, by former new jersey governor john corzine last year.The logs show that were in the meeting, including top obama fundraisers from the financial industry such as orin kramer of boston provident and robert wolf of ubs americas(The get together is described in this new york times story from last year).
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