White House Staff Celebrate With Gavin Newsom, Cory Booker (PHOTOS)

WASHINGTON -- President Obama's chief party planner, White House Social Secretary Jeremy Bernard, rarely makes public appearances, but he made an exception Tuesday night for an intimate, A-list dinner at the Jefferson Hotel, hosted by Connie Milstein and Tammy Haddad.

Seated around the table were some of Washington's most desirable dinner guests, starting with the Obama administration's top diplomatic hostess, US Chief of Protocol Ambassador Capricia Marshall, as well as Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), Obama's Labor Secretary Hilda Solis, California Lt. Gov Gavin Newsom and his wife, Jennifer Siebel Newsom, and Newark Mayor and Democratic rising star Cory Booker.

The dinner was a celebration of Jennifer Siebel Newsom's critically acclaimed documentary "Miss Representation," a film that challenges the American media's portrayal of women.

Bernard is the third person to hold the prestigious Social Secretary's title in the Obama White House. Earlier this year, he becamse and the first man ever named to the post when he replaced Julianna Smoot, who departed to join the 2012 reelection campaign.

SLIDESHOW: Check out these photos from the party.

• • • • • • • • • • • • Labor Secretary Hilda Solis, Jennifer Siebel Newsom, Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom and Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.).

Photos courtesy of White House Correspondents Insider

Comments

[MACDONALDBANK1]

09:24 AM on 12/09/2011

MACDONALD BANK is filing a $22 Billion war crimes lawsuit based on J. Paul Getty’s support for Hitler. 43,000 people were killed in the UK while Getty was in Berlin still shipping oil to Hitler. As aristocrats with treasures of art were executed -- beginning in 1933 -- with the outbreak of war; Getty assiduously added to his vast collection with the Nazis. FBI charged J.P. Getty with Espionage, FBI File 100.1202, June 26, 1940. 2003 documents declassified by UK Warfare Ministry reveal that in Oct. 1941 the pro-Nazi; Getty employed and lodged Nazis at his Pierre Hotel in New York City; Nazis who were involved in spying on and sabotaging Allied Forces’ war production plants. FBI reported August, 1942; that J.P. Getty’s Spartan Aircraft Company in Florida; trained Nazis in the United States to become pilots during WWII.

GRANT MACDONALD
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J. PAUL GETTY TRUST; GORDON GETTY; RONALD GETTY; J. PAUL GETTY JR. ESTATE; MARK GETTY; ANNE GETTY EARHART; CLAIRE GETTY PERRY; CAROLINE GETTY; CALIFORNIA LT. GOVERNOR GAVIN NEWSOM AND LOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART.

[pukkita]

05:05 PM on 12/03/2011

very handsome man :)

[HTM]

04:23 PM on 12/02/2011

Choose ye this day who you will serve, as for me and my house I will serve the Lord, Thou said the prophet Joshua to his people before they were lead into the Holy Land.

[Bridget Guzzi]

12:17 PM on 12/02/2011

OMG

[tuff guy]

12:29 AM on 12/02/2011

great.

let's start the newsom campaign now for either governor of california, senator, or v.p.

gavin newsom is a getty lacky. talk about representation for the 1%. this guy has been pegged early on for public office by the getty's.

this guy is one of the most entrenched 'democrat establishment' personalities they've (the democratic establishment that is currently occupying the white house) been able to come up with in a long time.

watch out people. learn the truth about this guy early on. otherwise, we'll be in for a world of hurt later on.

[gypsy508]

12:45 PM on 12/03/2011

So true. He's a more liberal George W. without the Ivy league degree. Newsom got into college on a baseball scholarship and only after his family pulled strings. Who needs help getting into Santa Clara? All of his business life since has been funded by Getty.

[mappy3]

02:36 PM on 12/06/2011

Sour grapes.

[zest]

03:50 PM on 12/01/2011

Wow, a voice of reason.