Ben Rhodes [Dep. National Security Advisor, brother of CBS head, NYU Master’s in “fictional writing”: “I will say that the President will have a chance to interact individually with each leader. That’s part of the purpose of having the dinner where he’ll be able to personally receive each leader attending the dinner. And so he will certainly speak with and interact with every leader who is coming here to the summit.”
So BO/MOzo greeting Af leaders in a WH over-the-top state dinner/photo-op receiving line equates to having one-on-one meetings?
Below is the only thing that I see about a dinner and it doesn’t appear to be at the WH AND WHO is going to pass up a chance to discuss INVESTMENTS with Nigeria? WOW! I guess assurances are made that the president will meet sometime in the future with the president of Nigeria? WHY??? But not until the Ebola threat is over, I guess.
“”But Nigeria’s Prof. Adefuye confirmed that President Jonathan would be personally attending and will be meeting with the US Vice President. Adefuye added that a significant number of US investors and businessmen would be hosting the Nigerian President to a dinner during the 3-day summit that starts tomorrow.
Explaining that this was a tremendous vote of confidence on Nigeria by the business people of America, Adefuye disclosed that the dinner organised by the Corporate Council for Africa, CCA and the US Chamber of Commerce was already over-subscribed as at last week, several days ahead of the dinner.””