C-SPAN will be covering events from President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle's first state dinner Tuesday evening, honoring Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his wife, Gursharan Kaur.
In addition, C-SPAN.org will live stream guest arrivals and the dinner toasts when they happen. Also, many events will be live streamed at www.whitehouse.gov/live (The White House live stream can also be viewed below).
Among the 320 guests are CNN's health correspondent Sanjay Gupta, Obama's original pick for Surgeon General; and Kal Penn, Associate Director of White House Office of Public Engagement and former star of TV's "House."
A reception begins at 7 p.m. local time in the White House East Room before dinner is served at 8:15 under a massive tent placed on the South Lawn. C-SPAN will start its live broadcast 45 minutes later, the network announced in the following statement:
"We'll begin at 9 p.m. by showing the Indian Prime Minister's arrival at the North Portico. Then, a conversation with Nia-Malika Henderson of Politico to talk about the guest list and other subjects.
Over the course of the program we'll show some of the guest arrivals from the White House Booksellers Area, the toasts and possibly a clip of the entertainment.
Also in the program: telephone conversations with Anita McBride, former chief of staff to Laura Bush; Walter Scheib, former White House executive chef (1994-2005); Melinda Bates, former director of the White House Visitors Office (Clinton Administration)."
Below, a partial list of guests for the White House state dinner:
1.) Vice President Joe Biden
2.) Dr. Jill Biden
3.) Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton
4.) Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner
5.) Energy Secretary Steven Chu
6.) Commerce Secretary Gary Locke
7.) Speaker Nancy Pelosi
8.) United Nations Ambassador Susan Rice
9.) Attorney General Eric Holder
10.) House Majority Whip James Clyburn
11.) House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer
12.) White House senior adviser David Axelrod
13.) White House senior adviser Valerie Jarrett
14.) White House Director of Domestic Policy Council Melody Barnes
15.) White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel
16.) White House Deputy Chief of Staff Jim Messina
17.) Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.)
18.) Sen. Daniel Inouye (D-Hawaii)
19.) Sen. Dick Lugar (R-Ind.)
20.) Vishakha N. Desai, president of the Asia Society
21.) M. Night Shyamalan, Hollywood director
22.) Ari Emanuel of WME Entertainment
23.) Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal
24.) Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm
25.) Daniel Mulhern, Granholm's husband
26.) Raju Narisetti, managing editor of the Washington Post
27.) Chairman of the Joints Chief of Staff Admiral Michael Mullen
28.) Kal Penn, Associate Director of White House Office of Public Engagement
29.) White House Social Secretary Desiree Rogers
30.) Former Clinton adviser Vernon Jordan
31.) Ann Jordan
32.) CNN's Sanjay Gupta, Obama's original pick for Surgeon General
33.) Rebecca Olson Gupta
34). Record executive and director David Geffen
35.) Director and producer Steven Spielberg
36.) Jeffrey Katzenberg, CEO off DreamWorks animation
37.) Sony Pictures Entertainment chairman Michael Lynton
38.) New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson
39.) Barbara Richardson
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