Crocodile-tagging safaris, where researchers measure and label the crocs as part of a monitoring program, are night-time affairs, taken after a candlelit three-course meal of delicious reef fish washed down with chilled Chilean sauvignon blanc.

BBC: Tagging crocodiles in Belize

But the President did not have enough time to hear them out or even share a meal because after only an hour he was scheduled to leave for the second fund-raiser, at the downtown home of Anna Wintour, the editor of Vogue.

NEWYORKER: Schmooze or Lose