White House Correspondents' Dinner

    Season 2000 2000

    • 2000-04-29T04:00:00Z on C-Span
    • 1h
    • 1h (1 episode)
    • United States
    The WHCA's annual dinner, begun in 1920, has become a Washington, D.C. tradition and is usually attended by the President and Vice President. Fifteen presidents have attended at least one WHCA dinner, beginning with Calvin Coolidge in 1924. The dinner is traditionally held on the evening of the last Saturday in April at the Washington Hilton. The WHCD has been increasingly criticized as an example of the coziness between the White House press corps and the Administration. The dinner typically includes a skit, either live or videotaped, by the sitting President in which he mocks himself, for the amusement of the press corps.
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    Season Premiere

    2000-04-29T04:00:00Z

    2000x01 2000 White House Correspondents' Dinner

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    Season Premiere

    2000x01 2000 White House Correspondents' Dinner

    • 2000-04-29T04:00:00Z — 1h

    President Bill Clinton and Jay Leno delivered tongue-in-cheek speeches about current political issues and about President Clinton’s future after the presidency. As part of their presentations each showed video parodies of President Clinton and other politicians. In an earlier segment of the correspondents' dinner a spoof of the NBC television show West Wing was performed by the show’s actors plus White House press secretary Joe Lockhart and former press secretary Dee Dee Myers. The West Wing segment is not available for sale.

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