The front door takes you into a worn reception room.
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Eastern time in the Diplomatic Reception Room of the White House.
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Outside this small reception room, the temperature is a sweltering 110 degrees Fahrenheit.
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One official told CNN it would be held in the Diplomatic Reception Room.
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New upholstery on chairs and benches in the high-traffic Diplomatic Reception Room.
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As soon as we walked into the reception room, the manager turned around and disappeared.
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The reception room of his city palace is dominated by two huge cannons on wheels.
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Upon tracking down the actual campsite they found the same photo posted in the reception room.
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President Trump speaks about Syria in the Diplomatic Reception Room at the White House on Wednesday.
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One side of his reception room is decorated with the spears, swords and daggers of tradition.
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First on-camera remarks: A message of condolence in the Diplomatic Reception Room on October 2.
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In the lower-floor reception room, panels illustrate Solomon's Temple in Jerusalem (an important Masonic edifice).
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The Saturday Profile JAKARTA, Indonesia — The transgender Muslim women gazed around the reception room with wonder.
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From her desk in the carpeted hush of a reception room, Heather remembers the old days.
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His wife Nidhal kissed the painting and put it on a wall in the ransacked reception room.
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Check. A sprawling reception room with walls covered in sparkling lights and glass circular tables stuffed with roses?
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President Donald Trump speaks on Iran policy from the Diplomatic Reception Room of the White House, Friday, Oct.
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The experience begins in an air-conditioned reception room where staff hand out thermal hooded coats and gloves.
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Tawstock Castle features four bedrooms, a luxury roof terrace, and a reception room traditionally used for receiving guests.
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"My bridal party and I were lining up in the reception room to walk down the aisle," Strauss said.
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Inside, waiting in a large reception room, were the nonroyal hostages, who had been held in a separate location.
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Original pocket doors that can be locked with a key open to a formal dining room or reception room.
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Gasiorowski said the fire probably broke out in the reception room and blocked the employee's way to evacuate the girls.
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"This is nothing more or less than a recognition of reality," Trump said from the White House's Diplomatic Reception Room.
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There are small if understated markers, like the modernist painting hanging on a wall inside a ground floor reception room.
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After Mr. Tillerson thanked Mr. Lavrov for coming to Washington, the two men began to leave the diplomatic reception room.
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A marble-floored entrance hallway leads to the property's 30-foot-wide reception room which overlooks the garden out back.
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Mr. Gasiorowski said the fire probably broke out in the reception room and blocked a pathway to evacuate the girls.
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This three-bed terrace house on Ruthin Road in Blackheath, London, has one bathroom, one reception room, a garage, a 50ft garden.
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The home also has a large "reception room," which is apparently what the Brits call a room where people can gather together.
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Over the summer, he invited four Democratic lawmakers and immediately peppered them with questions as they strolled through the Diplomatic Reception Room.
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As guests recessed into the club's reception room, they passed a sign that had instructed them where to sit for the ceremony.
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His father was a painter, whose portrait of Senator John C. Calhoun of South Carolina hangs in the United States Senate reception room.
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By early afternoon, he appeared before reporters in the Diplomatic Reception Room of the White House to announce he had signed the measure.
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MEREDITH Yes, and there are some other things that are kind of funny, like James Casebere's [Luis] Barragán photograph ["Reception Room," from 2017].
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Entry into the apartment is through a well-lit, orange-hued reception room, where there is also a powder room and storage space.
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Perfect Pair After a cocktail hour in a nearby reception room at the Center Club, guests dined on crab cake and filet mignon.
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In 1949, the secretary of the Senate, Leslie Biffle, hosted a small lunch for President Harry S. Truman in his Capitol reception room.
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"Today we finally acknowledge the obvious: that Jerusalem is Israel's capital," Mr. Trump said from the Diplomatic Reception Room of the White House.
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" On Wednesday Trump insisted from the White House Diplomatic Reception Room that, "we're getting out ... Let someone else fight over this long-bloodstained sand.
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The rare, ornate wall painting is likely to have decorated a reception room for party guests at the home of a wealthy Roman citizen.
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"The house is unusual in having no formal reception room by the front entrance, because the house was effectively turned around," Mr. McAreavey said.
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There is also a reception room/study, a library, a formal dining room and an eat-in kitchen with a breakfast nook and pantry.
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On its back wall is a 1745 coat of arms for the Geneve-Boringe family, reminiscent of the one in the chateau's reception room.
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Before lunch, he prowled at will around the reception room, free from the assistants who are usually on hand with members of the royal family.
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"I have determined that it is time to officially recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel," Trump said in the White House's Diplomatic Reception Room.
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Several years later, she reupholstered her Empire-period furniture in the formal reception room, which features medieval door frames, the oldest ones in the home.
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"It was a sign of solidarity," he said, sitting in a high-ceilinged reception room in his palace, which lies only yards from Victory Square.
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And so, after Wednesday's sessions were over, a group of people gathered in a reception room with Murphy and Stevenson to hear more about their plan.
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Also on this level is a cloakroom and a utility space, together with a 185-square-foot office and an extra 345-square-foot reception room.
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Dr. M. had a jar in the reception room filled with rock candy that he gave out to both his patients and their sugar-loving siblings.
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A few months later, I was in the psychologist's reception room, paying for my fourth really good cry, when a woman carrying a child walked in.
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"It's Rossini's greatest opera," Mr. Audi said during an interview in the Colonel's Reception Room at the Armory, with the sound of marching in the background.
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Mr. Trump made the formal announcement during a speech in the Diplomatic Reception Room of the White House, with Vice President Mike Pence standing behind him.
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A listing for the property boasts that the charming Chelsea flat has three bedrooms, two bathrooms and one sizable "reception room," all spread out over three floors.
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President Trump plans to use remarks from the Diplomatic Reception Room on Saturday afternoon to propose a notable immigration compromise, according to sources familiar with the speech.
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Cover: President Donald Trump speaks about the mass shootings in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio, in the Diplomatic Reception Room of the White House, Monday, Aug.
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The public rarely get to see inside, but photographers were allowed to take photos of a reception room when William and Kate hosted the Obamas in 2016.
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The meeting in front of TV cameras in the gilded Kremlin reception room was a win-win — a display of legitimacy for both Putin and Le Pen.
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President Donald Trump takes a drink of water as he speaks about his trip to Asia in the Diplomatic Reception Room of the White House on Nov. 15.
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It's the first major domestic incident that has prompted a response from Trump, who spoke straight into the camera during his brief statement from the Diplomatic Reception Room.
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At issue are details about official functions held in the State Department's ornate Diplomatic Reception Room during the time that Clinton was secretary of State, including guest lists.
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Cover image: President Donald Trump speaks about the mass shootings in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio, in the Diplomatic Reception Room of the White House, Monday, Aug.
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They were in the high, domed reception room, sitting in one of several alcoves with stone benches set into each wall above the sunken floor and its octagonal fountain.
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The stand-up reception (just like Prince Harry and Meghan Markle had following their nuptials in May!) took place in the Waterloo Chamber, the Grand Reception Room and St.
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Trump teased the demise of al-Baghdadi on Twitter on Saturday night before making the official announcement Sunday morning amid the pomp of the White House Diplomatic Reception Room.
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The stand-up reception (just like Prince Harry and Meghan Markle had following their nuptials in May!) took place in the Waterloo Chamber, the Grand Reception Room and St.
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Their portraits would be painted on the frescoed walls of the Senate Reception Room off the Senate chamber in the Capitol But ideology and personalities also shape these decisions.
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The empty, unused reception room is a trending feature of luxury homes that has been noted by cultural critics such as Kate Wagner, creator of the blog McMansion Hell.
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Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) hands over a platter of bagels to Senate Reception Room staffers after ending his 15-hour filibuster against President Trump's Supreme Court nominee on Wednesday.
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Size: 9,20183 square feet Price per square foot: $165 Indoors: The original wood doors inset with gridded glass open to a marble-tiled foyer, followed by a reception room.
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From the ground-floor entrance, a pair of large doors open into a reception room with a wall of windows, anchored at one end by a modern gas fireplace.
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PARIS — Against the regal backdrop of a grand reception room in France's presidential palace, Emmanuel Macron, 39, was officially installed on Sunday as the youngest president in modern French history.
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"I have determined that it is time to officially recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel," Trump said during a speech in the Diplomatic Reception Room of the White House.
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Pocket doors off the reception room on the other side of the staircase take you into a dining room with a coffered ceiling, wall paneling and a green-tile fireplace.
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I watched one guy walk the perimeter of the reception room trying to blend in, wearing a Hawaiian shirt and cargo shorts, and then make a beeline for the bar.
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The set of rooms — and the Grand Reception Room in particular — are often the sites of big events, including state dinners that the Queen hosts for visiting foreign heads of state.
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President Trump addressed the country Monday from the White House Diplomatic Reception Room following the attack on Las Vegas late Sunday night when a shooter opened fire on an outdoor concert.
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The final lawsuits asks for visitor logs for Clinton's personal office and the State Department's Diplomatic Reception Room as well as details about a program to fund the historic room's renovation.
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She turned to Decorist Elite Designer Stefani Stein, to help impart a reception room and three offices for herself and her employees, partner David Dean Portell and director of development Maia Glikman.
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Cover: President Donald Trump delivers remarks in the Diplomatic Reception Room of the White House on October 23, 2019 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Oliver Contreras/SIPA USA)(Sipa via AP Images)
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After being led into a bare, concrete-wall reception room by prison guards earlier this month, he took one look at me and Brendan Hoffman, a Times photographer, and ran away screaming.
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The source is the extensive Moroccan-style Atlas cedar wood paneling that clads the ceilings, walls and doors of the reception room, living room, dining room, study and parts of the main bedrooms.
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Since I'm not actually staying at the hotel or paying $270,25 a night, my tour of the 1653-room suite (enough room for a family and its entourage) starts in the "reception" room.
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"President Donald Trump stood in front of the microphone in the White House Diplomatic Reception Room and strafed the world with a barrage of lies and nonsensical, self-serving claims," wrote Frida Ghitis.
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THE RECEPTION: A former Windsor Castle staffer previously told PEOPLE that the couple will likely hold their reception in the Waterloo Chamber, St. George's Hall and the Grand Reception Room within the castle.
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Viewed from behind a glass box in the castle's Grand Reception Room (where the Queen hosted the couple's wedding reception!), Meghan talks visitors through exactly why she chose the French fashion house Givenchy.
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In addition, Cassi and Adam modeled a pose just like the moment when Michelle snuggled up against Barack while taping for the 2015 World Expo in the Diplomatic Reception Room of the White House.
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Standing in the back of a Waldorf-Astoria reception room at Gennifer Flowers's 1992 press conference, taking notes as I listened to her surreptitiously recorded phone calls with a Presidential candidate named Bill Clinton?
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Franceschetti, who is from Italy, spends much of her time in the chateau's less formal reception room, which she said was once a guardroom and during World War II was a Nazi operations room.
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"This was a horrible one-sided deal that should have never, ever been made," a grim-faced Mr. Trump said in an 11-minute address from the Diplomatic Reception Room of the White House.
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It involved stripping the building to its skeleton and restoring silk trompe l'oeil paintings on the walls and ceilings of a private theater, as well as the intricate, threaded bamboo marquetry in a reception room.
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The former spy chief was greeted on the South Lawn by Trump chief of staff John KellyJohn Francis KellyMORE, who walked him into the Diplomatic Reception Room and along the Colonnade into the Oval Office.
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His cell boasted a private bathroom and a reception room, as well as a queen sized bed, a 42-inch plasma TV, and paintings on the walls including portraits of his daughter and several Catholic images.
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Mr. Trump, who has long resisted efforts from aides to address the nation from the Oval Office, agreed to the Diplomatic Reception Room as the setting for what he wanted to be a legacy-defining moment.
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"I am here today to break the logjam and provide Congress with a path forward to end the government shutdown," said Trump in a 13-minute address from the Diplomatic Reception Room at the White House.
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The Saudi Foreign Ministry lost no time in publicizing the session, posting a photograph on Twitter of Mr. Mnuchin sitting across from Prince Mohammed in an opulent reception room, listening while his host made a point.
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Reporters have been kept in pens in the Capitol's Ohio Clock corridor and Reception Room, allowing senators to exit the Senate chamber for meeting rooms or private offices without speaking to reporters during the impeachment trial.
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The department said this week that nearly two-thirds of its records about functions held in the Diplomatic Reception Room during Clinton's years at State can't be made public before Election Day due to its current workload.
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Cover: Trump senior adviser Jared Kushner attends an event where Trump signed an order recognizing the Golan Heights as Israeli territory in the Diplomatic Reception Room of the White House in Washington, DC, USA, 25 March 2019.
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His speech, from the Diplomatic Reception Room of the White House, was perhaps the most hostile of any American leader toward Iran since President George W. Bush placed the country on his "axis of evil" in 2002.
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The president's remarks in the White House Diplomatic Reception Room were meandering and, at times, confusing, such as when he said "We closed it down, we stopped it," in reference to travel from China, not the virus.
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Five generations of Manghams, descending from Helen Mangham, 102; Rosalee King, 101; Grace Ward, 99; W.D. Mangham, 96 and Virginia Brooks, the baby at 92, crowded into a small reception room for an emotional walk down memory lane.
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On the Verge 6 Photos View Slide Show ' In the airy reception room of a townhouse in London's Chelsea, Arthur Yates has arranged a rack of vibrant unisex shirts next to a display of hand-painted milk urns.
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But a two-level reception room in the pavilion remains much as it was 50 years ago — with striking carvings on its walls depicting indigenous life in the Arctic by the Inuit artists Kumukluk Saggiak and Elijah Pudlat.
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"Earlier this morning, the government of Turkey informed my administration that they would be stopping combat and their offensive in Syria and making the cease-fire permanent," President Trump said in remarks from the Diplomatic Reception Room Wednesday morning.
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Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump laid out a broad immigration deal in an address from the Diplomatic Reception Room on Saturday that would fund his signature border wall in exchange for temporary protections for more than one million immigrants.
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At an airport reception room, Mr. Kim, who is about three times Ms. Kim's age, asked her to sit first, a reversal of the tradition of deferring to elders that was seen as a signifier of Ms. Kim's status.
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For reasons that may involve both high culture and low political calculation, important visitors to China are typically invited to sink into one of a pair of side-by-side armchairs, at one end of a formal reception room.
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Speaking in the White House's Diplomatic Reception Room, Trump also announced his plan to eventually relocate the US Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem and begin the difficult logistical work of building a new diplomatic facility in the contested city.
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The speech, delivered against a backdrop of the White House's brilliantly colorful wallpaper in the Diplomatic Reception Room could turn out to be a turning point for a White House that has often seemed to reject the traditional US global role.
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"Rumors," she said, sitting on a dark, squashy sofa in an opulent reception room in the Versace Palazzo on Via Gesù a few days before the show, rolling eyes rimmed in dark shadow and making exaggerated quote marks with her fingers.
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A side table there displays numerous photographs of Mr. Richardson and his many famous friends, including a young and old Picasso, and Warhol with Pope John Paul II. At the other side of the reception room is the great room.
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The seven-story residence at 153 East 71st Street, between Fifth and Madison Avenues, sprawls across 21,000 square feet and has five bathrooms, a two-story reception room and many bedrooms, including three three-room suites on the fourth floor.
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Reporters are being kept in pens in the Ohio Clock corridor and the Reception Room immediately outside the Senate chamber, giving Republican senators a chance to leave the chamber and walk to meeting rooms or hideaway offices without speaking to reporters.
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The party was held in a set of rooms, including the Waterloo Chamber, St. George's Hall and the Grand Reception Room — an area of the castle Meghan and Harry will become even more familiar with as they plan their wedding in May.
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"Today we finally acknowledge the obvious—that Jerusalem is Israel's capital," Trump declared Wednesday from the White House's Diplomatic Reception Room, noting that the city is the seat of Israel's government—home to its legislature, Supreme Court, and prime minister and presidential residences.
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In remarks delivered in the Diplomatic Reception Room of the White House, Trump enumerated a number of achievements, but the reality is that the trip served mostly to show how far the United States is moving from its position of global leadership.
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" In a rambling and disjointed statement from the Diplomatic Reception Room, Mr. Trump called the process that yielded the legislation "this ridiculous situation," and he warned, "I will never sign another bill like this again — I'm not going to do it again.
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Because remember a couple of weeks ago when Kim Yong-chol, the vice chairman of North Korea came to the White House, he was supposed to basically walk in the south border through the diplomatic reception room down to the colony over to the Oval.
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After months of calling the Iran deal of 2015 "insane" and "the worst" Mr Trump—perhaps swayed by the gravity of the moment or the grandeur of the White House's diplomatic reception room—contented himself with calling the nuclear pact "horrible", "rotten" and "one-sided".
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Have a look at the on-point recreations of shots from Barack and Michelle before the March 2009 National Newspaper Publishers Association reception, while taping the 2015 World Expo in the White House Diplomatic Reception Room, and of course, their Essence cover from Oct. 2016.
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"My role will be to make sure that we don't go back to square one, square one meaning where we found the Congo 22 years ago," he told Reuters inside an ornate reception room with high ceilings and sweeping views of the churning Congo River.
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There are gems at every turn, and everything you see is for sale, from the floral configurations of Gio Ponti ceiling lights to the customized Dedar curtains and elegant Matisse sketch that hangs discreetly on the reception room wall — to even the property itself.
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The former spy chief was greeted on the South Lawn by Trump chief of staff John KellyJohn Francis KellyMORE, who walked him into the Diplomatic Reception Room and along the Colonnade into the Oval Office — a path usually taken by foreign leaders visiting the president.
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A reception room with a wet bar to the left of the front door steps down to a living room with a white-brick fireplace wall and a partition with niches for the original radio and speakers, an updated sound system and a television.
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Mr. McConnell announced he would appoint a bipartisan group of senators to hash over ways to honor Mr. McCain, suggesting naming the Senate Armed Services Committee's hearing room after him and commissioning a portrait for the ornate Senate Reception Room, just off the Senate chamber.
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In the former grand reception room, where clients such as Ms. Deneuve and the socialite Nan Kempner would take tea while selecting their made-to-measure wardrobes, Mr. Bergé had Mr. Grange partner with the renowned exhibition-set designer Nathalie Crinière to create new galleries.
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Though still in its soft launch phase, it's already a bastion of new-school glamour, its reception room decorated with jungly banana-leaf wallpaper and a groovy woven chair that, unfortunately, is far more fun to take pictures of than it is to sit in.
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The full outfit, including Meghan's shoes, has been put on display in a large glass box alongside an identical version of Prince Harry's wedding attire, a frockcoat uniform of the Household Cavalry, inside Windsor Castle's Grand Reception Room - one of the rooms used for the wedding celebrations.
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"Racism is evil and those who cause violence in its name are criminals and thugs, including the KKK, neo-Nazis, white supremacists and other hate groups that are repugnant to what we hold dear as Americans," Trump said in a surprise statement from the Diplomatic Reception Room.
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The downstairs reception room, with ceilings over 10 feet, white sofas, silk drapes and a black walnut floor, is stragetically scattered with trademark McQueen skull motifs and furry throws, and connects via a "catwalk" lined with mirrors to an American-style kitchen with a gargantuan crystal chandelier.
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Cassi and Adam's presidentital photoshoot includes reminiscing shots from throughout the Obamas' own love story: their October 2016 Essence cover, their embrace before the March 2009 National Newspaper Publishers Association reception, even their embrace while taping the 2015 World Expo in the Diplomatic Reception Room of the White House.
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The firing of Mr. Comey was the main subject from the start: When Mr. Tillerson greeted his Russian counterpart in the diplomatic reception room on the seventh floor of the State Department, a reporter shouted a question about whether Mr. Comey's dismissal "cast a shadow" on the meeting.
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EST: President Trump and first lady Melania TrumpMelania TrumpMichelle Obama is 'most admired woman' in new poll Navy SEALs who turned in Gallagher: He is 'freaking evil' Trump, first lady attend Christmas Eve services in Florida MORE host a Christmas reception in the Diplomatic Reception Room of the White House.
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There was no way Comey wanted to arrive ahead of the others and break the united front the agency heads had agreed upon, and he also didn't want to find himself sitting in some reception room—with Trump transition staffers engaging him in chitchat—something he loathed to his core.
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It is now bursting with mayhem: large balloons fill the old Colonel's Reception Room, threatening to tumble out; the parlor seems to need an electrician, with its lights turning on and off; a five-piece musical troupe snakes through the austere hallways, spreading noise with a trumpet, tambourine, violin, flute, and megaphone.
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The comments came in a hastily scheduled White House event in the Diplomatic Reception Room, where Trump -- speaking with the help of a teleprompter -- spoke straight to camera after meeting with FBI Director Christopher Wray and Attorney General Jeff Sessions to discuss the Department of Justice's civil rights investigation into the attack.
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Following the ceremony at St. George's Chapel in Windsor Castle, the royal couple and all 600 guests made their way to the Grand Reception Room for the luncheon reception, where the menu includes Grilled English Asparagus wrapped in Cumbrian Ham and Garden Pea Panna Cotta with Quail Eggs — and, of course, a gorgeous wedding cake.
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The eight actors from the Schaubühne company play dozens of roles; the costume and set changes are minutely choreographed and, at times, frenetic, as a grand reception room gives way to an airplane cabin, Constantinople or a 21st-century interior, since Ms. Mitchell brings the end point of "Orlando" from 1929 to the present.
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The nostalgia comes thick and fast in the first installment — from the evocative opening moments that utilize some of the show's most iconic quotes (including a soundbite from dearly departed Edward Herrmann, whose presence looms large, just as the gargantuan painting of Richard dominates Emily's reception room) to Rory and Lorelai's rapid-fire reunion at the gazebo.
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The latest offer, which Trump announced from the White House's Diplomatic Reception Room Saturday, keeps up his demands for a $5.7 billion border wall and reiterates a previous $800 million provision to address the humanitarian crisis at the border, but this time also offers to extend existing protections to DREAMers and immigrants with Temporary Protected Status for three years.
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In 1970, Richard Nixon moved the White House press corps from its location in what is now the Reception Room in the West Wing entrance (where every visitor could be observed and interrogated) to what used to be President Kennedy's favorite indoor swimming pool, in the corridor that serves as a transit point between the Executive Mansion and the West Wing.
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PARIS — On Monday night, on one of those spectacular Paris summer evenings when the light shimmers off every surface and the sun doesn't set until around 10, hundreds of fashionably dressed people gathered in the garden of the Musée des Art Décoratifs, enjoying Champagne and hors d'oeuvres as a newly shorn and platinum blond Cara Delevingne looked on from above, standing in the open French doors of a second-floor reception room.
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The Diplomatic Reception Room setting gave Mr. Trump the kind of made-for-television presidential moment he has long craved — a parallel to President Barack Obama's late-night announcement in 2011 that Osama bin Laden had been killed — at a time when he has been eager for a story line outside of impeachment and a way to counter the narrative that he had been outmaneuvered by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey in ordering American troops out of Syria.
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President Trump declared Monday that "racism is evil" in public comments at the White House, and for the first time called out the KKK, Nazis and other hate groups specifically for their role in this weekend's violence at a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Va. "Racism is evil and those who cause violence in its name are criminals and thugs, including the KKK, neo-Nazis, white supremacists and other hate groups that are repugnant to what we hold dear as Americans," Trump said in a surprise statement from the Diplomatic Reception Room.
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The building now sits on the well-known museum mile, and has that Upper East Side feel of dynastically preserved wealth, redolent in almost every aspect of the building: the nest of serenely white plaster archways at the entrance; the great hall's majestically high ceilings consisting of coffered, carved oak; the decorative plaster ceiling with raised strapwork design on the second floor; the intricate teak, parquet flooring; oak woodwork paneling; the carved wood railings of the grand staircase; and the stained glass tympanum and roundels over the entrance to the main floor's reception room.
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