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This Week's DC Trivia:
Last Saturday night, President Biden attended the White House Correspondents Association annual dinner at the Washington Hilton, often called DC’s “nerd prom.” Every president since Calvin Coolidge in 1924 has attended at least one dinner, with the exception of Donald Trump. Which president attended and then wrote that the dinner was “probably the worst of this type that I have attended," and called the attendees "a drunken group; crude, and terribly cruel:” (1) Richard Nixon; (2) Jimmy Carter, or (3) Harry Truman?
Answer:
President Nixon, who, after attending the dinner on May 8, 1971, wrote a memo to White House Chief of Staff H.R. Haldeman describing the dinner in the above-mentioned terms.
LATEST CLIENT NEWS
March 9, 2024: Congratulations to the City of Sterling Heights, Michigan, for a $7.4 million FY2024 Transportation/HUD Appropriations earmark for the Clinton River Road Corridor Improvement Project.
Nov. 9, 2023: Congratulations to the Velocity Center for a $1.8 million Michigan Economic Development Corporation Small Business Support Hubs grant.
Nov. 2, 2023: Congratulations to the City of Sterling Heights, Michigan, for a $125,000 COPS Hiring grant
March 15, 2023: Congratulations to the Road Commission for Oakland County, Michigan, for a $2 million Strengthening Mobility and Revolutionizing Transportation (SMART) grant.
Feb. 1, 2023: Congratulations to Macomb County and the City of Sterling Heights, Michigan, for a $1 million Safe Streets and Roads for All action plan grant.
Oct. 28, 2022: Congratulations to the Port of Cleveland and the Port of Detroit on their grant awards from the Fiscal Year 2022 Port Infrastructure Development Grant Program, totaling over $43 million.