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The White House has repeatedly used in recent administrations spanning at least 2009–2025, driven by limits in indoor capacity and the need to accommodate large guest lists. Reporting and fact‑checks ...
Outdoor tented ceremonies were a recurring feature of the Obama presidency, notably the November 24, 2009 State Dinner for India held in a tent on the South Lawn with about 300 guests , and multiple s...
Barack Obama’s total number of formal *state dinners* during his presidency is reported inconsistently across contemporary sources: some outlets documented state dinners, while others counted , and at...
Tents have been used repeatedly at White House state dinners and other large events well before 2009 — for example at a 1976 state dinner for Queen Elizabeth II and repeatedly in later decades when in...
State dinners at the White House have sometimes been moved into specially erected tents on the South Lawn or Rose Garden; the clearest, well-documented instances in the 2009–2025 window are Barack Oba...
Yes — multiple news organizations, official White House photo archives and stock/photo agencies have documented state dinners held in tents on White House grounds, especially on the South Lawn and Ros...
The available analyses converge on a clear fact: the Obama administration hosted multiple state dinners inviting a wide array of foreign heads of government and state — including leaders from India, M...
The Obama administration hosted official state dinners during its eight years in the White House; contemporary retrospectives and compiled lists published after his presidency converge on that total ....
The available evidence shows two different answers depending on how the question is framed: for modern U.S. White House state dinners the most-expensive single dinner publicly cited is , reported at a...
The provided sources do not state a definitive count of the Obama administration hosted in the White House ballroom. Contemporary reporting in the dataset documents the Obamas’ and references to their...