Free for the first time to speak out about the circumstances surrounding the party-crashers at the White House state dinner in November, outgoing White House Social Secretary Desiree Glapion Rogers said Sunday her office followed established protocol to the letter that night, and reports that her office was not monitoring the gate when guests arrived are “just wrong.”
“Let’s just get the record straight, ” said Rogers, a New Orleans native, in a telephone interview from Chicago, where she made her career before being tapped by the Obamas as White House social secretary.
Rogers announced Friday she was stepping down to return to the private sector; on Saturday, the White House announced that Julianna Smoot, chief of staff to U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk, will succeed her.
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