But Ms. Sillaman said Ms. DeLauro invited General Clark in July to her house for one of the policy dinners that she has been giving with her husband, Stanley Greenberg, a Democratic pollster not affiliated with any campaign.
Every Sunday evening, he operates an open-house policy, cooking dinner for anyone who cares to drop by.
Plan a deviceless brunch, enforce a no blackberry policy at dinner, share a coffee and tuck the iPhone away.
I've been privileged to sit in on one of the Governor's policy salon dinners that asked tough questions about how to make Maryland a bigger player in climate change policy -- and how to deal with the business community in a fair, square way in reaching those goals.
He shows us life in Washington, with its endless round of policy meetings and dinner parties to discuss policy.
IN THE UNITED STATESBen S. Bernanke, the Federal Reserve chairman, will speak at a luncheon in Dallas (Wednesday); retailers will report their same-store sales for March (Thursday); Mr. Bernanke will speak about economic policy at a dinner in Washington (Thursday).
Also on Tuesday, one of the Kremlin's chief spokesmen and strategists, Sergei Yastrzhembsky, appeared to signal a new flexibility in Russia's Iraq policy at a dinner in Washington with American foreign policy experts.
Tony Blair's one-time communications director, now novelist, Labour policy adviser, after-dinner speaker and general man-about-the-media has never come across as the sensory sort.
"I'm sorry, Mr. President, but that's not a policy, it's a dinner party," Mr. Romney said, speaking over enthusiastic applause from the conservative activists.
Ms. Hafner recognizes that they've never negotiated certain basic policies: whether to eat dinner together every night, whether friends' invitations automatically include her mother, how Ms. Hafner — working at home — can balance career demands with the attention her mother needs.
