Earlier, the strongest hint yet that the Scottish Open may not, as had been widely expected, move to Donald Trump's golf course just outside Aberdeen in 2017, had come from the chief executive of the event's key sponsor.
In the contest for the Republican nomination, Mr Romney made much of the fact that he delivered a successful Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City in 2002, when he was chief executive of the event.
"It's the White House Correspondents' dinner on steroids," said Tammy Haddad, a veteran television producer who founded the site with David Adler, chief executive of the event-planning firm BizBash Media.
George Stevens, an executive producer of the event, recalled that Mr. Obama told the cast and crew that the celebration was "glorious".
"It is our biggest one to date," said Paul Deighton, Locog's chief executive, ahead of the event.
Big ups to www.conversionsande.com, as executive producers of the event.
I met up with Sam Hunt – the music programmer and one of the executive producers of the event series – in the Humber Street Gallery.
Nick Bitel, the chief executive of the London event, the next major race in the international marathon calendar, said on Tuesday that there were no plans to cancel it.
I was there as an observer - an interested one, admittedly, having just become a non-executive director of the event's organiser, CSquared - and was struck by the confidence, inventiveness and leadership shown by the media practitioners.
Robert Gless, a union leader, said the board's compensation committee failed to say in AMR's last proxy statement how much money the company had put into a trust fund last October set up to protect the pensions of executives in the event of a bankruptcy filing.
Douglas L. Ducate, president and chief executive of the Center for Exhibition Industry Research, said event organizers have been moving away from big luncheons and ceremonial dinners as more people, focused on efficiency, choose to spend one or two days at a conference instead of four or five, and come to the show armed with a plan of whom they are going to see and when.
