The Vice President & First Lady Honor Sargent Shriver

Jesse Lee

January 22, 2011
05:46 PM EDT

Vice President Biden Honors R. Sargent Shriver at His Funeral Mass

Vice President Joe Biden delivers a eulogy at the funeral of Sargent Shriver in Potomac, Maryland, January 22, 2011. (Official White House Photo by David Lienemann)

Since the passing of R. Sargent Shriver on Tuesday, the outpouring of emotion has befitted the life of the first director of the Peace Corps, a man who dedicated himself to his fellow men. At his funeral mass today, those in attendance knew him best not just as a great humanitarian but as a great, reliable friend who was always up to make you laugh. Throughout his eulogy, the Vice President spoke to Shriver's loving children:

West Wing Week: "A Rather Large Painting"

Arun Chaudhary

January 21, 2011
12:00 AM EDT

Welcome to the West Wing Week, your guide to everything that's happening at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. Watch as the President welcomes the presidents of China and Pakistan, serves the D.C. community in observance of Martin Luther King Day, speaks in remembrance of Ambassador Richard Holbrooke and President John F. Kennedy, and more.

Learn more about the events featured in this edition of West Wing Week:

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"An Example of What Martin Luther King's Birthday Should Be All About"

January 19th, 2011:

Arun Chaudhary is the official White House videographer.

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Welcome to the West Wing Week, your guide to everything that's happening at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. Watch as the President welcomes the presidents of China and Pakistan, serves the community in observance of Martin Luther King Day, speaks in remembrance of Ambassador Richard Holbrooke and President John F. Kennedy, and more.

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First Lady Michelle Obama is joined by the Obama family dog Bo as she surprises visitors on White House tours on the second anniversary of the inauguration of President Barack Obama.

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The White House

Office of the First Lady

For Immediate Release

January 20, 2011

First Lady Michelle Obama Announces Collaboration with Walmart in Support of Let’s Move! Campaign

First Lady Michelle Obama joined Walmart executives today to help launch the company’s Nutrition Charter, a groundbreaking new initiative that has the potential to have a transformative impact on the market place and help families across America put healthier, more affordable food on their tables. The initiative proposes a number of changes by Walmart to offer more nutritious food products, lower the cost of healthy foods, and provide consumers with better information about healthy food options. These changes are the types of improvements critical to achieving the primary goal of Let’s Move! – solving the problem of childhood obesity within a generation.
The Nutrition Charter is the result of over a year of work together between Let’s Move! and Walmart, and by collaborating with the nation’s largest grocer, Let’s Move! and the Nutrition Charter will catalyze remarkable change in the products provided to families across the country, and highlight the type of action that is needed to best serve our communities.

“I believe this Charter is a victory for parents…it’s a victory for families…and most of all, it’s a victory for our children,” said First Lady Michelle Obama. “But I’m also here today because I think that this nutrition charter represents something bigger. The truth is, back when we first decided to take on the issue of childhood obesity, in the back of my mind, I wondered to myself whether we would really be able to make a difference. When you’re dealing with a problem this big…and this complicated…it can be a little overwhelming. You can start to wonder: Is what we’re doing here really working? Are folks really interested in making these kinds of changes? Is this actually making our kids healthier? But today, when I see a company like Walmart launch an initiative like this, I feel more hopeful than ever before that the answer to these questions is yes. Efforts like this show us that yes, we can improve how we make and sell food in this country – and what we feed our kids. Yes, we can give parents better information so they can make better decisions for their families.” A full transcript of Mrs. Obama’s remarks is included below.

“In that effort to make healthier eating more of a reality in America, perhaps no one has been a more vocal partner or powerful collaborator than our First Lady, Michelle Obama. Through the Let’s Move! campaign, she is working to take on one of the most pressing public health challenges facing our nation today, by engaging every sector of society, to help kids be more active, eat better, and get healthy. As she has rightly recognized, this is an issue that demands the attention of us all—our schools, our communities, our government leaders, NGOs and businesses. And with that collaboration, it is an issue that we can and will solve. As our First Lady has said, ‘We have the tools at our disposal, all we need is the motivation, the opportunity and the willpower to do what needs to be done.’ ”said Bill Simon, CEO of Walmart US.

“We have enormous respect and admiration for the First Lady’s leadership on this important issue. She was a catalyst that helped make today’s announcement a reality and her spirit of collaboration made our commitment to bring better nutrition to kitchen tables across this country even stronger,” said Leslie Dach, Executive Vice President of Corporate Affairs, WalMart.

Walmart’s Nutrition Charter consists of three major pillars that aim to impact the health and wellbeing of American families by making critical changes to accessible and affordable food:

Reformulate products to improve nutrition by 2015. Reformulating thousands, of everyday packaged food items by 2015 by reducing sodium 25 percent and added sugars 10 percent, and by removing all remaining industrial produced trans fats. The company will work with suppliers to improve the nutritional quality of national food brands and its Great Value private brand in key product categories to complete their reformulations.

Make healthy food more affordable. Walmart is committed to reducing the cost of fruits and vegetables and the healthier options.

Empower consumers to make informed choices by implementing a healthy seal. In addition to their strong support for a meaningful front of pack label, Walmart is developing a healthy seal that will make it easier for customers to identify health products and quickly make a healthy choice.

Partnership for a Healthier America will be working with Walmart to evaluate and monitor their progress with these efforts.

Mrs. Obama has been leading a nationwide effort to combat childhood obesity so that children born today will reach adulthood at a healthy weight. Launched almost a year ago, the Let’s Move! Campaign is a comprehensive, collaborative, and community-oriented initiative that has sought to engage every sector of society to tackle head-on the many different factors that lead to childhood obesity.

In December, President Obama signed The Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010 – a major legislative achievement that will improve the quality of school breakfasts, lunches and other foods sold in schools while also strengthening nutrition programs that serve young children, including WIC and the Child and Adult Care Food Program.

The White House

Office of the First Lady

For Immediate Release

January 20, 2011

REMARKS BY THE FIRST LADY DURING LET’S MOVE! WALMART ANNOUNCEMENT

THEARC
Washington, D.C.

9:58 A.M. EST

MRS. OBAMA: Thank you. (Applause.) Thank you all. Thank you so much. Look, I am so excited to be here today because I am thrilled about Walmart’s new Nutrition Charter.

So I want to start off by thanking Bill not just for that kind introduction, but for all that he and his colleagues have done to make this day possible.

I also want to thank Leslie Dach and Andrea Thomas for joining us today and for their tireless efforts. They have been working so hard with my staff to bring us this exciting new initiative.

And I also want to recognize Jim Gavin here, who’s the Chairman of the Partnership for a Healthier America. That organization is going to play a critical role in making this Nutrition Charter a success. So we are delighted to have him join us, as well.

Now, I wanted to be here today, it was important for me to be here, first and foremost, because I believe this Charter is a huge victory for folks all across this country. It’s a victory for parents. It’s a victory for families. But most of all, it’s a victory for our children.

But I’m also here today because I think this new initiative represents something so much bigger, because the truth is -- and let me share this -- when we decided to take on the issue of childhood obesity, I have to tell you in the back of my mind, I wondered to myself whether we could really make a difference, because when you take on a problem this big and this complicated, at times it can be a little overwhelming. You start to wonder: Is what we’re trying to do here really going to make a difference? Are folks really interested and ready to make the kinds of changes that are going to be necessary to get our kids in a healthy place? Is what we’re doing actually going to make our kids better?

But today, when I see a company like Walmart launch an initiative like this, I feel more hopeful than ever before that the answer to these questions is yes.

Efforts like this show us that yes, we can improve how we make and sell food in this country. We can do that. And we can feed our kids better.

Yes, we can give parents better information so that they can make better decisions for their families. We can do this.

And yes, there are CEOs like Bill Simon out there and so many others across this country who are willing to step up and help us solve this problem, not just as executives who care about their company’s bottom lines, but as parents and as grandparents who care about our nation’s children.

And it’s not just business leaders who are stepping up, we have learned. Since we’ve launched “Let’s Move” nearly a year ago, we’ve seen folks from every sector of our society stepping up. We have seen educators planting school gardens and providing healthier school meals. We’ve seen doctors screening kids for obesity and teaching parents how to address the issue in their own homes. Mayors are building playgrounds and bike paths to help families be more active. Our faith leaders are urging their congregations to lead healthier lifestyles.

And Congress is getting into the act, as well. Just last month, as Bill mentioned, my husband signed the Health and Hunger-Free Kids Act. This is historic legislation that’s going to provide more nutritious school meals to millions of American children. (Applause.) It’s a big step up. (Applause.)

And today, with this announcement, the largest corporation in America is launching a new initiative that has the potential to transform the marketplace and to help American families put healthier food on their tables every single day.

This Nutrition Charter promises a real change that can have a fundamental impact in how our kids eat, you see, because when parents have the information they need about the products they buy, that puts them back in charge, so they can make good decisions for their families.

When kids are consuming these products every day, those reductions in sugar, and salt and trans-fat can really add up. When healthier options are finally affordable, that can affect every single meal a child eats, whether it’s adding fruit at breakfast, or whole wheat bread at lunch, or some more veggies on the plate at dinner. And when 140 million people a week are shopping at Walmart, then day by day, and meal by meal, all these small changes can start to make a big difference for our children’s health.

So to say I’m excited is probably an understatement because we’re really gaining some momentum on this issue, we’re really starting to see things move. We are seeing a fundamental shift in our national conversation about how we make and sell food. That's something that wasn’t happening just a year ago. And all across the country, we’re beginning to see the ripple effects on the choices folks are making about how they feed their kids.

So today, I don’t just feel hopeful about what this one company is doing for our children’s health. I feel hopeful about what we as a nation can do. And even more importantly, I feel hopeful about what we as individuals -- what we as parents -– can do. That's the point.

You see, this Nutrition Charter, it didn’t start in Washington, as you’ve heard. It didn’t come from Congress or the White House. It came from parents. That's the beauty of it. It came from parents, from hardworking moms and dads who struggle every week to find healthy choices that fit their hectic lifestyles.

And let me tell you, like Andrea, I know what that’s like, because I’ve been there. Just a few short years ago, I was living a “normal” life, really -- (laughter) -- facing the daily challenges of a working mom -- dashing from meetings to the school pick-up line, struggling to keep it all together for my family, trying to act like I knew what I was doing. (Laughter.)

But I clearly remember that one of the things that made my life just a little more difficult was trying to figure out which foods were healthy and which ones weren't. I remember standing in aisle after aisle in the grocery store, searching high and low for the best options for my family, feeling so frustrated by how the healthy choice wasn't necessarily the affordable choice.

And that’s exactly how so many busy parents are feeling today. Look, they know the threat of obesity. They know it. They know the risk that it poses to their kids’ health. So you know what they did? They started speaking up. They started demanding healthier, more affordable options. And then you know what happened? Companies like Walmart started listening.

So this is important. When parents demand healthier choices and they actually put their money where their mouth is, then programs like this Nutrition Charter aren’t just good for kids and families; they’re good for business, as well, because what we've learned is that companies often tell us that they want to do the right thing for our kids, but they need the right business model to make that profitable. And when parents purchase healthier options when they can afford them, and demand lower prices when they can’t afford them, then we as parents make that model possible.

And let’s be clear. As Andrea said, when big companies like Walmart make changes like this, that doesn’t just affect the food sold in Walmart. It affects the products that suppliers make and sell in grocery stores all across this country. So parents haven’t just changed how Walmart does business; they’re actually changing how the entire food industry does business. And that's a good thing. (Applause.) That is a very, very good and powerful thing. (Applause.)

So today, I have one simple message for American parents: Make no mistake about it, when it comes to the health of our children, we have a voice, parents. We have a voice.

And in the end, that’s really what “Let’s Move” is all about. That's why we did this. It’s not about what’s happening here in Washington. It’s not about government telling people what to do. That's not what this is about. It’s about each of us, in our own families, in our own communities, standing up and demanding more for our kids. And it’s about companies like Walmart answering that call.

So in the coming months and years, I hope that more companies, large and small –- everyone can do their part -- will start stepping up. I hope that business leaders and others across this country will ask themselves, truly, “What can I do in my company or in my organization to help families make healthy decisions for their kids?”

And if we do that, if each of us do our part for our children, then I am confident that together, we can give these kids the brighter future that they so richly deserve.

So, again, congratulations to Walmart. Congratulations to parents. This is an exciting new initiative. And I look forward to seeing the difference that it’s going to make in the lives of families and children in the months and years ahead.

So thank you all so much. Take care. (Applause.)

END

10:09 A.M. EST

The White House

Office of the First Lady

For Immediate Release

January 20, 2011

First Lady Michelle Obama to Surprise Visitors on White House Tour at 10:45 AM ET. LiveStream Here

Welcoming Visitors to the People’s House on the Two Year Anniversary of the Inauguration

On January 21, 2009, President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama entered the White House and signaled their commitment to creating a more open and accessible White House by surprising guests attending public tours. Two years later, approximately 1.5 million visitors have walked through the gates of the people’s house, marking the largest attendance post 9/11. This number reflects Residence tourists, guests at the annual White House Easter Egg Roll events, Fall and Spring Garden Tours and White House Kitchen Garden school group tours. Mrs. Obama is marking the second year by continuing this tradition today – taking some time to greet visitors as they come in for public tours for the third time. To view this event, a live feed is available at http://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/live .

The President and First Lady have sought to not only increase the number of visitors, but also enhance each visitor’s experience at the White House. The China Room is now open to public tours and tourists are frequently invited out to the South Lawn to watch the President depart or arrive on Marine One. When possible, United States Secret Service now lead guided tours of the Executive Residence in the morning, giving guests a better understanding of the history as they walk through.

Breaking down the numbers helps reveal just how many Americans from across the country have visited the White House in the past year. The 2010 Easter Egg Roll brought in 31,313 guests from 50 states using an online lottery system. During the Spring and Fall Garden Tours, the White House invited over 45,000 guests to the South Lawn. Two years ago, with the popularity of the First Lady’s new Kitchen Garden, the White House started an online registration system so school groups could apply to visit the garden. Since the program launched in October 2009, over 1,100 local school children have visited the garden and learned about healthy eating from White House Assistant Chef Sam Kass and White House Executive Pastry Chef William Yosses.

The White House is the only building in the world that is simultaneously the home of a head of state, the executive office of a head of state, and is regularly open to the public for tours. The President and First Lady plan to build on past success and provide more Americans the opportunity to visit 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in the coming year.

For more information and instructions on applying for a White House visit, please go to: http://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/about/tours-and-events/

Watch Live at 10:45 AM EST: The First Lady Surprises Visitors on White House Tour

Kori Schulman

January 20, 2011
10:14 AM EDT

On January 21, 2009, the President and First Lady entered the White House and signaled their commitment to creating a more open and accessible White House by surprising guests attending public tours. Two years later, approximately 1.5 million visitors have walked through the gates of the people’s house. Mrs. Obama is marking the second year by continuing this tradition today – taking some time to greet visitors as they come in for public tours for the third time.

Don't miss a live stream of the First Lady with Obama family dog Bo surprise White House visitors at 10:45 AM EST on WhiteHouse.gov/live.

(Update: This live event has concluded. You can watch the full video here.)

First Lady Michelle Obama: "When You Study Abroad, You’re Helping to Make America Stronger"

Kori Schulman

January 19, 2011
06:50 PM EDT

Ed. Note: Read more about the “100,000 Strong Initiative ” and new efforts to increase the number and diversity of American students studying in China.

“So we’ve had a pretty busy morning at the White House,” said Mrs. Obama, addressing an audience of more than a thousand young people from the Washington, DC area. President Obama and the First Lady began the day by welcoming Chinese President Hu Jintao for a State Visit.

Following the Arrival Ceremony, and continuing her focus on engaging youth around the world, the First Lady spoke to students about the importance of building relationships with their peers in China and creating a mutual understanding around the world.

First Lady Michelle Obama addresses the "100K Strong" State Visit event on the campus of Howard University in Washington, D.C. January 19, 2011. (Official White House Photo by Lawrence Jackson)

She focused on the importance of studying abroad in support of the President’s “100,000 Strong Initiative” – a program that aims to increase the number of Americans who have the opportunity to study in China:

The fact is, with every friendship you make, and every bond of trust you establish, you are shaping the image of America projected to the rest of the world. That is so important. So when you study abroad, you’re actually helping to make America stronger.

Expected Attendees at Tonight’s State Dinner

Below is a list of expected attendees at tonight’s State Dinner. Attached are details about the State Dinner, also available here.

THE PRESIDENT and MRS. OBAMA

HIS EXCELLENCY HU JINTAO

The Honorable Madeleine Albright, Washington, D.C.
Ms. Alice Albright

Ms. Christiane Amanpour, ABC News, New York, NY
Mr. James Rubin

The Honorable David Axelrod, Assistant to the President and Senior Advisor
Mrs. Susan Axelrod

Mr. Jeffrey Bader, National Security Council
Ms. Rohini Talalla

The Honorable Elizabeth Bagley, Washington, D.C.
Mr. Kevin Frawley

Mr. Steven Ballmer, Microsoft, Redmond, WA
Mrs. Connie Ballmer

Ms. Bette Bao Lord, New York, NY
The Honorable Winston Lord

Mrs. Denise Bauer, Belvedere Tiburon, CA

      The Honorable Howard Berman, Representative from California
      Mrs. Janis Berman

      Vice President Joseph R. Biden, Jr.
      Dr. Jill Biden

The Honorable Joseph Beau Biden, III, Attorney General of Delaware, Wilmington, DE
Mrs. Hallie Biden

His Excellency Zheng Bijian, Chairman, CIIDS

His Excellency Dai Bingguo, State Councilor

Mr. Lloyd Blankfein, Goldman Sachs, New York, NY
Mrs. Laura Blankfein

The Honorable Antony Blinken, Deputy Assistant to the President and National Security Advisor, Office of the Vice President

The Honorable Stephen Breyer, United States Supreme Court
Dr. Johanna Breyer

Mr. Greg Brown, Motorola, Schaumburg, IL
Mrs. Anna-Louise Brown

The Honorable Dr. Zbigniew Brezezinski, McLean, VA
Mrs. Emilie A. Brzezinski

The Honorable Kurt M. Campbell, Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs
The Honorable Lael Brainard, Under Secretary of the Treasury for International Affairs

The Honorable James E. Carter, former President of the United States
Mrs. Rosalynn Carter

Mr. Jackie Chan, Beverly Hills, CA
Mr. Phillip Button

The Honorable Elaine Chao, Washington, D.C.
Dr. James Chao

His Excellency Wang Chao, Vice Minister for Commerce

His Excellency Tung Chee Hwa, Vice Chairman, CPPCC, former Hong Kong Chief Executive

Mr. John A. Chen, Chairman, Committee of 100, New York, NY
Mrs. Sherrie Chen

The Honorable Chris Christie, Governor of New Jersey, Trenton, NJ
Mrs. Mary Pat Christie

The Honorable Judy Chu, Representative from California
Ms. Chiling Tong

The Honorable Steven Chu, Secretary of Energy
Mrs. Jean Chu

The Honorable Hillary R. Clinton, Secretary of State

The Honorable William J. Clinton, former President of the United States

The Honorable James E. Clyburn, Representative from South Carolina
Mr. John Clyburn

The Honorable Richard Daley, Mayor of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Mrs. Maggie Daley

The Honorable William Daley, Assistant to the President and Chief of Staff
Ms. Bernadette Keller

His Excellency Chen Deming, Minister of Commerce

Mr. Jamie Dimon, JP Morgan Chase & Co., New York, NY
Mrs. Judith Dimon

The Honorable Thomas Donilon, Assistant to the President and National Security Advisor
Ms. Cathy Russell, Chief of Staff to Dr. Jill Biden

The Honorable Arne Duncan, Secretary of Education
Mrs. Karen Duncan

Mr. James Fallows, The Atlantic, Washington, D.C.
Mrs. Deborah Fallows

Mr. Xie Feng, Director General, MFA

Mr. Thomas Friedman, The New York Times, Washington, D.C.
Mrs. Ann Friedman

The Honorable Michael B. Froman, Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Advisor for International Economic Affairs
Ms. Nancy Goodman

His Excellency Wan Gang, Minister of Science and Technology

The Honorable Robert M. Gates, Secretary of Defense
Mrs. Becky Gates

The Honorable Timothy F. Geithner, Secretary of the Treasury
Mrs. Carole Geithner

Mr. Mark Gilbert, Boca Raton, FL
Mrs. Nancy Gilbert

The Honorable Chris Gregoire, Governor of Washington, Olympia, WA
Ms. Courtney Gregoire

His Excellency Zhu Guangyao, Vice Minister for Finance

His Excellency Zhang Guobao, Vice Minister for NDRC

Mr. Herbie Hancock, Los Angeles, CA
Mrs. GiGi Hancock

The Honorable Dr. John P. Holdren, Assistant to the President and Director of the Office of Science and Technology

The Honorable Robert Hormats, Under Secretary of State for Economic, Business, and Agricultural Affairs

The Honorable Steny Hoyer, Representative from Maryland, Democratic WHIP

His Excellency Wang Huning, Director of the Policy Research Office of CCCPC

The Honorable Jon Huntsman, U.S. Ambassador to China
Mrs. Mary Kaye Huntsman

Mr. Robert Iger, The Walt Disney Company, Burbank, CA
Ms. Willow Bay

Mr. David Ignatius, The Washington Post, Washington, D.C.
Dr. Eve Ignatius

Mr. Jeff Immelt, General Electric, Fairfield, CT
Mrs. Andrea Immelt

The Honorable Valerie Jarrett, Senior Advisor and Assistant to the President for Intergovernmental Affairs and Public Engagement

His Excellency Li Jiaxiang, Vice Minister for Transportation

His Excellency Yang Jiechi, Minister of Foreign Affairs

His Excellency Ling Jihua, Director of the General Office of CCCPC

Mr. Robert Kagan, McLean, VA
Ms. Victoria Nuland

Mr. Michael Kempner, East Rutherford, NJ
Mrs. Jacqueline Kempner

Mr. Muhtar Kent, Coca-Cola, Atlanta, GA

The Honorable John F. Kerry, Senator from Massachusetts
Mrs. Teresa Heinz Kerry

Mr. Robert King, UAW, Detroit, MI
Ms. Julie Kushner

The Honorable Ron Kirk, United States Trade Representative
Mrs. Matrice Ellis-Kirk

The Honorable Henry Kissinger, New York, NY
Mrs. Nancy Kissinger

Mr. Nicholas Kristof, The New York Times, Scarsdale, NY
Ms. Sheryl WuDunn

Ms. Ellen Kullman, DuPont, Wilmington, DE
Mr. Michael Kullman

Dr. Zhang Kunsheng, Director-General, Protocol Department

Ms. Michelle Kwan, Torrance, CA

Mr. Lang Lang, New York, NY
Mrs. Zhou Xiulan

      The Honorable Jacob Lew, Director, Office of Management and Budget
      Ms. Maya Lin, New York, NY
      Mr. Daniel Wolf

Ms. Limin Liu, Reno, NV
Dr. Hugh Shapiro

Mr. Andrew N. Liveris, The Dow Chemical Company, Midland, MI
Mrs. Paula Liveris

The Honorable Gary Locke, Secretary of Commerce
Mrs. Mona Locke

The Honorable Christopher Lu, Assistant to the President and Cabinet Secretary
Ms. Kathryn Thomson

The Honorable Richard Lugar, Senator from Indiana
Mrs. Charlene Lugar

Mr. Yo Yo Ma, Burbank, CA
Ms. Jill Hornor

The Honorable Capricia Marshall, Chief of Protocol, Department of State

Mr. W. James McNerney, The Boeing Company, Chicago, IL
Mrs. Haity McNerney

Mr. Evan Medeiros, Director for Asian Affairs, NSS

His Excellency Jiang Mianheng, Vice Chairman, CAS

Mr. Mel Monzack, Wilmington, DE
Mrs. Ann Monzack

Admiral Michael G. Mullen, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff

Mrs. Wendi Deng Murdoch, New York, NY

Mr. James Murren, Las Vegas, NV
Mrs. Heather Murren

The Honorable Thomas Nides, Deputy Secretary of State for Management and Resources
Ms. Virginia Moseley

Mr. Paul Otellini, Intel, Santa Clara, CA
Mrs. Sandy Otellini

The Honorable Nancy Pelosi, Representative from California, Democratic Leader
Mr. Paul Pelosi

His Excellency Zhang Ping, Minister of NDRC

The Honorable David Plouffe, Assistant to the President and Senior Advisor
Ms. Olivia Morgan

Mr. Tom Pritzker, Pritzker Organization, Chicago, IL
Mrs. Margot Pritzker

His Excellency Wang Qishan, Vice Premier of the State Council

Ms. Jean Quan, Mayor of Oakland, CA
The Honorable Edwin M. Lee, Mayor of San Francisco, CA

Ms. Azita Raji, JP Morgan Securities, Inc., Belvedere, CA
Mr. Gary Syman

The Honorable Ben Rhodes, Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategic Communications and Speechwriting
Ms. Ann Norris

The Honorable Susan Rice, United States Ambassador to the United Nations, New York, NY
Mr. Ian Cameron

Mr. Robert Roche, Shanghai, CN

Mr. Kenneth Roth, The Human Rights Watch, Washington, D.C.
Ms. Annie Sparrow

The Honorable Pete Rouse, Counselor to the President
Ms. Courtney Chapin

Mr. David M. Rubenstein, The Carlyle Group, Washington, D.C.
Mrs. Alice Rubenstein

Mr. Kirk Rudy, Austin, TX
Mrs. Amy Rudy

The Honorable Brent Scowcroft, The Forum for International Policy, Washington, D.C.

The Honorable Kathleen Sebelius, Secretary of Health and Human Services
The Honorable Gary Sebelius

The Honorable Susan Sher, Assistant to the President and Chief of Staff to the First Lady
The Honorable Neil Cohen

Mr. Robert Sherman, Boston, MA
Ms. Kim S. Sawyer

His Excellency Chen Shiju, Chief of the President’s Office

The Honorable George Shultz, Stanford, CA
Mrs. Charlotte Shultz

Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong, Culver City, CA
The Honorable Phil Gordon, Mayor of Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ

The Honorable Gene Sperling, Assistant to the President for Economic Policy & Director of the National Economic Council
Ms. Allison Abner

The Honorable Jim Steinberg, Deputy Secretary of State
Ms. Sherburne B. Abbott

Ms. Barbra Streisand, Malibu, CA
Mr. James Brolin

The Honorable Tina Tchen, Deputy Assistant to the President and Director of the Office of Public Engagement

Mr. John Thornton, The Brookings Institution, HSBC North America, Palm Beach, FL
Mrs. Margaret Thornton

His Excellency Cui Tiankai, Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs

Dr. Stanley Toy, Jr., Pasadena, CA
Ms. Lana Toy

Mr. Luis Ubinas, The Ford Foundation, New York, NY
Dr. Deborah Tolman

Mr. Jose Villarreal, Commissioner General, Shanghai Expo, San Antonio, TX
Ms. Sara Villarreal

Ms. Vera Wang, New York, NY
Mr. Arthur Becker

Mr. Steve Westly, Menlo Park, CA
Ms. Anita Yu

Ms. Anna Wintour, Vogue Magazine, New York, NY
Mr. Shelby Bryan

Ms. Patricia A. Woertz, Archer Daniels Midland, Decatur, IL
Mr. Kelvin R. Westbrook

Mr. B.D. Wong, New York, NY
Mrs. Roberta Wong

Mr. Charles Woo, Mega Toys, Los Angeles, CA
Mrs. Ying Woo

The Honorable David Wu, Representative from Oregon
Ms. Anna Kopperud

His Excellency Xie Xuren, Minister of Finance

His Excellency Zhang Yesui, Chinese Ambassador to the United States
Madam Chen Naiqing

His Excellency Sun Yibiao, Vice Minister for Customs

*** Note: This release has been corrected.