Think diplomacy is tough Try a White House state dinner

the white house - Preparations take months. No detail is overlooked, for this is perhaps the most evolved form of diplomacy: the state dinner.

As first lady Jill Biden prepares Wednesday to host her fifth state dinner, for Japan's leader, she made it clear that every aesthetic detail - from the crystal on the tables, to the food on the White House china, the decor in the State Dining Room, the music and the fashi