The cabinet dinner, or, A political meeting [graphic] : an illustrious way of enjoying a friend.
This may explain why Harold Ickes, the Secretary of the Interior, identified the main course of a Cabinet dinner as "ordinary roast mutton," when the official menu for the occasion specified leg of lamb.
That chat was deferred to the post-cabinet dinner, which several ministers skipped.
At the shadow cabinet's dinner, which marked the end of Neil Kinnock's leadership and my nine years as deputy, Gerald Kaufman, once Wilson's press secretary, included in his eulogy an explanation of what went wrong.
All his life he loved making things, and in Connecticut he built chairs, cabinets, a dinner table, a bed - many of them, he noted, with a rueful grin and one eye on the Puritan farmers of Salem, vaguely churchy.
A few weeks after his inauguration, he gathered his cabinet at a dinner in the governor's mansion.
From the pantry cabinet to the dinner plate or drink glass shelf, identify a cabinet door that is often used.
In Washington, where senior politicians pride themselves on working hard and playing little, it has become increasingly difficult to lure members of Congress and top administration officials, no less cabinet members, to dinners and receptions.
Tonight, at a dinner of cabinet ministers, Mr. Rumsfeld tried to explain American thinking on Iraq, both diplomatic and military, the official said.
While Mr. Kerry did not visit Utah either, he sent in a team of five people to get out the vote for him and sent a surrogate, Henry Cisneros, the former Clinton cabinet official, to the dinner in Utah.
Tonight, Mr. Berlusconi invited members of his cabinet to a working dinner to try to find a compromise that will satisfy Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt of Belgium, who is coming to Rome on Tuesday seeking a solution.
