Obama's Social Secretary Desiree Rogers Rises To The Top Of DC Guest Lists

Obama's Social Secretary Desiree Rogers Rises To The Top Of DC Guest Lists

THE holiday bash at the Phillips Collection art museum last week brimmed with bubbly and bold-faced names. But party people in the know breezed past the senators and television personalities to hover around a striking, willowy woman with a shimmering Oscar de la Renta dress and an unfamiliar face.

The woman was Desirée Rogers, the 49-year-old Chicago corporate executive and civic leader who streaked to the top of this city's A-list last month when President-elect Barack Obama announced that she would take on the role of social secretary in his White House.

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