Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt Meet Obama At The White House (PHOTOS)

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama might be powerful and well-known, but the White House got some Hollywood star power Wednesday: Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie stopped by for a chat with the chief executive.

The actors were spotted in the Oval Office by photographers waiting outside for the president to take off for a trip to Chicago.

The White House confirmed Pitt and Jolie were in town to screen Jolie's movie about Bosnian war crimes at the Holocaust museum. They dropped by so the president could talk with Jolie about her work on preventing mass atrocities and combating sexual violence against women.

Pitt was seen sporting a cane, which he's been using following a skiing injury.

It's not the first time Obama's met with one of the pair. In 2009 the president met with Pitt to discuss his working rebuilding New Orleans' Ninth Ward after Hurricane Katrina.

Jolie also met with CIA Director David Petraeus at the agency's headquarters. Jolie wanted Petraeus' perspective on cultural trends in Afghanistan for her work with Afghan refugees, an official close to the former U.S. commander in Afghanistan said, speaking anonymously to discuss the private meeting. They had a similar meeting in Baghdad in 2008.

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AP Intelligence Writer Kimberly Dozier contributed to this report.

Comments

[pam45]

12:13 AM on 02/08/2012

Have to see this movie. It's a must. I'm still waiting for Salt II. Bring it on Angie.

[MayDog63]

02:33 PM on 01/26/2012

Pitt is a total tool, and mindless, but AJ knows better! So baby I hate to do this, but where through.

[edfou5]

04:45 PM on 01/25/2012

Well the jealous trolls are out in force on this one.

Mr. Pitt and Ms. Jolie are doing this for self promotion? You cynics do understand, don't you, that they've quite literally been amongst the most famous human beings on Earth for over a decade? So the need for self-promotion is what?

And you're critical of the President for meeting with them? Do you actually think that this is the first President that has met with celebrity activists in regards to international issues?

This couple have put themselves in harm's way and witnessed things you and I can hardly imagine, in some of the saddest environments on this planet, for no other reason than to shine the media's light on the plight of the unfortunate.

In our midst we have talented people who become enormously famous and enormously wealthy... and they decide to give back. They decide to give hands-on attention to issues of poverty and hunger and international strife... instead of just sitting by their pool in Montreux or the Hamptons sipping champagne....

And you criticize and belittle them. Very sad and somewhat sick.

Easy to criticize others from the comfort of your Doritos-stained couch, isn't it. While you do nothing.

[msw62msw]

08:07 AM on 01/19/2012

What a surprise that Obama is pandering to billionaire "Hollywood Stars"! Of course, since they support liberal politicians insulates them from the left-wing criticism leveled at wealthy businessmen, whose professions actually create and perpetuate jobs for average Americans as opposed to the Hollywood types who are paid outrageous sums for reading lines written for them to the direction of others, and whose "profession" does nothing for average Americans. Typical liberal media two-facedness.

[Bambi10]

08:36 PM on 01/23/2012

ur just pissed cuz ur brokee

[Madbunny]

02:19 PM on 01/24/2012

Or perhaps as aspiring actors all they got was scorn and ridicule from Conservatives like you.
Come to think of it, you're not exactly giving them a reason to embrace you now either.

[msw62msw]

05:53 PM on 01/27/2012

"Aspiring actors" don't get ridicule from me or anyone else. It is the "Hollywood Elite" (hardly aspiring) who, just because they were hired to read what someone else wrote, to the direction of someone else, are pandered to by politicians. And I really don't give a crap whether they "embrace" me or not! I don't embrace their hypocritical politics.

[TEAM JEN]

08:38 PM on 01/15/2012

They are both up for Golden Globes awards. All for publicity. That's why they made sure they stood in front of the window. Bet Obama wasn't even there!

[DeloresT]

05:32 PM on 01/14/2012

I love the things that this couple are doing for humanity......glad Mr. Obama thinks so also ( and I'm sure he hit them up for some campaign cash.......hope so anyway).

[OccasionalMirth]

06:28 PM on 01/18/2012

Delores,
They can afford it many times over.
And its great for publicity.!

[ConservativeChampion]

10:34 AM on 01/14/2012

I thought obama was looking out for the "middle class".

Why is it that obama spends most of his time doing upper class activities such as golfing, riding around on a private jet, PARTYING WITH LIB ELITES, FUND RAISING WITH LIB ELITES and the like.

When does obama spend time with the "little people" in the middle class?

Here's the deal. obama is lying when he says he cares about the middle class.

[DeloresT]

05:33 PM on 01/14/2012

One thing's for sure.....Bush didn't even try to do anything for the middle class.

[msw62msw]

08:09 AM on 01/19/2012

Bush isn't running for President - Obama is!

[Madbunny]

02:20 PM on 01/24/2012

Right, that's why you see the GOP nominees out in backyard barbecues with ten middle class guys. Wait, I don't recall ever seeing that. Well, there goes your argument.

[helenahelene]

12:56 AM on 01/14/2012

people .stpo being jealous,angie is doing a good thing , nothing wrong .How about you ? what did you do ,or just sitting there say a negative thing all day to other people?

[OccasionalMirth]

06:29 PM on 01/18/2012

She needs to do a good thing, she has done enough bad things.
She has the money, she can make herself look good.

[Beckycurley]

05:51 PM on 01/13/2012

Hi yes , It is nice to hear when celeberties get involved in political matters since they have the funds to do so..I have always been team angelina anyway and very very admire her silence in matters when they constantly try to tear them apart. For her involvement in other countries as well.. So please do keep me posted on new information on their involvement with Obama and our political systems especially since it is so close to re-elections..Thank you from the Navajo Reservation.

[bertysing]

03:58 PM on 01/13/2012

actually, it really doesn't matter who they are and what quirks they have, i am certain they are flawed humans as all of us....it is good they are giving back, and that is a great trend in Hollywood....especially since Politics is such a quagmire. Rich people giving back may be the only way now to do anything....

[plansmaker]

01:34 PM on 01/13/2012

Brad and Angie are good people. Only wish there are more people like them in Hollywood.

[bertysing]

03:59 PM on 01/13/2012

John Galt did not have a keeper.

[plansmaker]

11:52 AM on 01/14/2012

That is my question. As a society, we are drifting toward one size fits all mindset.
American Exceptionalism on longer exists. John Galt champions against socialism and big governments. He need no keeper.

[OccasionalMirth]

06:30 PM on 01/18/2012

Takes more than money to make a good person.

[plansmaker]

11:11 PM on 01/19/2012

so true.

[Lindstr7]

10:23 AM on 01/13/2012

Ugh. Blatant self-promotion in the guise of "humanitarian works." Meeting with Patraeus? Yeah, I'll bet they're taking us real seriously in the world now that Brad and Angie are here to fix the world so it has a happy ending!

[earthlingz]

04:39 PM on 01/14/2012

Riiiiight. Everything this couple does is in the name of "self-promotion". Never mind that they don't have publicists which is virtually unheard of in Hollywood. Never mind that Angelina Jolie changed forever after witnessing the horrors of the world up close and went from a self-absorbed actress to a proactive and compassionate person being trying to end suffering for other human beings. And never mind that Brad Pitt's life changed forever when he met Jolie. He's a better person for it, and that's why he left Aniston - a perfectly nice woman, but a typical Hollywood celebrity. Jolie and Pitt have witnessed the horrors up close and are seeking ways to end it, and have enriched countless lives and their own in the process. I wish these good people well because I watch their actual interviews instead of reading headlines on tabloids to find out who and what they're about: people who want to do good in this world, and have the power to do so.

[Lindstr7]

12:32 AM on 01/15/2012

Well then, I guess you're an expert on the subject. Some people are obsessed with certain celebrities and know every detail of their lives. I'm sure they're thrilled you have their backs, but I'm not sure its healthy.

[edfou5]

04:34 PM on 01/25/2012

FANNED - for understanding that being a celebrity does not deny one the right to be a constructive and compassionate human being.

[OccasionalMirth]

06:32 PM on 01/18/2012

You got that right..it's CHEEZY.?
Other countrys will not take us seriously.
specially with the lack of morality, which
money cannot buy.
Family values... UGH.. ALL FALSE.!

[emperance]

09:52 PM on 01/12/2012

The woman & the man I love MEETING up.
(No disrespect FLOTUS or Brad)

** Beauty & the Beauty.**

MARV!

Glad for the pix! I know Prez admires her humanitarian work.

Angie J-Pitt is a treasure ----- IMO!

[thegodlessgeneration]

06:48 PM on 01/12/2012

Do people who aren't movie starts or with lots of money or with connections ever get invited to the White House? I'd like to see the White House invite groups (maybe 10 or so people per week) from different backgrounds to chat with the chief executive. I'm not sure if something like this already happens. If it doesn't, it should. It would certainly make stories like this seem less atrocious.

[1088]

07:38 PM on 01/12/2012

Sorry to tell you he does speak to Individual and groups, but the media block that out!

[bgofca]

07:54 PM on 01/12/2012

you didn't read the article did you?
the meeting was arranged because of angelinas work with refugees and the violence against women in these areas.

[thegodlessgeneration]

06:03 PM on 01/14/2012

Oh I read it. But what do you think the chances are of me meeting with the president because of MY work with refugees and the violence against women in those areas?

[OccasionalMirth]

06:40 PM on 01/18/2012

Oh she can do that for half an hour once a month ,
and still make herself look good.
She has deep seated guilt issues
(if she has any morals at all)
And this stuff is supposed to make people
like her.. She is hollow and childish..
Turned against her own father, simply because he
was proud of being a grandfather to her adopted kid.
And bragged about it before her royal majesty
wanted him to speak.
They did not speak and she was cold
to him for a very long time long time..
him begging and crying for forgiveness.
ANGELINA IS NOT SANE !!
can you not see it?

[media4me2]

06:36 PM on 01/12/2012

Hey Barack
How's that Haiti earthquake relief thing going?

[bgofca]

07:55 PM on 01/12/2012

why don't you ask that repuglican senator sessions why he never released the money for haiti relief.