Initially, the White House asked for a permanent extension of these breaks, before accepting a two-year extension, some of it applied retroactively, in the face of resistance from the Senate GOP.
The White House initially hoped that the younger Kim, who studied at a boarding school in Switzerland, would prove more willing to engage the West and promote economic and political reforms in his country.
But the view in the Romney camp is that they still have more highly motivated voters and that it will be hard for Mr. Obama to repeat the fervor he generated four years ago in winning the White House initially.
President Barack Obama said for the first time on Tuesday that he ultimately was responsible for the safety of four Americans who were killed in Libya last month, but denounced as "offensive" Republican charges that the White House initially resisted labeling the incident a terrorist attack.
In the case of a Louisiana serial killer, eyewitness descriptions and psychological profiling initially directed police towards a white male suspect.
The announcement came as Commerce Department figures showed US economic output shrank between July and September at a faster pace than initially predicted, which the White House described as "troubling".
The White House had initially reported Hamza had been killed, only to later backtrack and say it was his 22-year old brother Khalid who lost his life in the raid.
On AIDS, Dr. Koop initially was muzzled by the White House, which kept him off an early AIDS task force and forbade him to make public statements about the newly discovered disease.
The plan initially is to import elephant, white rhino, warthog, giraffe, zebra, wildebeest and a range of antelope.
Walmart had initially declined to send anyone to the White House, but a spokesman told Reuters news agency the retailer had "underestimated the expectation to attend the meeting".
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Both periods coincided, initially at least, with Republicans in the White House.
The screenplay, by Gary Ross, contrives to put Dave in the Oval Office, where he poses as the President and allows himself (initially) to be manipulated by the crafty White House chief of staff (Frank Langella).
He initially sought to meet with President Obama at the White House during his visit this week, but he received a cool reception, aides to both presidents said.
But this formula which initially calmed a bitter dispute between the armed forces and the White House has again become controversial.
More than half of the potential jurors initially called for duty were excused because of bias against the White House.
"The wine industry has been known to be white and when you have to come in you initially feel like an outsider, " said Biyela.
But the company initially said it would distribute more than 1.4 billion white cans in a press release that did not mention the red cans.
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Though he never ran a large organization before becoming president, he initially dismissed internal concerns about management and ended up with a factionalized White House and a fuzzier decision-making process than many top aides wanted.
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"You came to see they actually did what they said, " says Stephen White, managing director of iaction, an architectural firm that initially built Pudong offices for international banks but now sees mostly Chinese take-up.
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The escalator, originally built to ease traffic on the narrow street, was initially criticized by the city's director of audit as a costly "white elephant" because it overshot its budget by 153% and failed to reduce traffic.
Nancy Erickson, the Senate secretary, initially rejected Burris' appointment Monday because his certificate of appointment was missing the signature of Illinois Secretary of State Jesse White.
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