We’ve had quite a few eye witness accounts of Natalie’s White House Dinner appearance and today we have one of the better write ups. Courtesy of Observer.
He only had to wait a moment more before Mrs. Weymouth arrived and gave him his first assignment: Entertain Natalie Portman. Looking petite and exquisite in a black halter dress, she glided with the editor to an empty part of the ballroom where she congratulated him on his Pulitzer Prize. Ms. Portman was the first that evening to praise his prizewinning biography of Andrew Jackson, American Lion, but not the last. He crinkled his nose, closed and opened both eyes in a sort of twitchy wink and whispered thankyou and thankyousomuch.