Kaur at the first state dinner of my presidency.

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Many of you were here when I was honored to become the first President to help celebrate Diwali -- the Festival of Lights. (Applause.) Some of you were here for the first White House celebration of the birth of the founder of Sikhism -- Guru Nanak. (Applause.) Tonight, we gather again, for the first state dinner of my presidency -- with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Mrs.

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On the first night of my homestay, I ate dinner at the CBT office and then slipped and sloshed back down the road toward my house.

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As a teenager Koch worked as a waiter, and the first time he came to dinner at my apartment, he was shocked when he saw how much I was cutting off the strawberries I was serving him for dessert.

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Today marks the first official visit and State Dinner for a European leader during my presidency.

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Wobbling precariously on my crutches after a family dinner in a local restaurant, I hailed the first cab in the rank.

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"I would not be able to afford vegetables if it wasn't for my garden, " said Autaubo, 52, who got her first seeds from The Dinner Garden and now volunteers with Hirshberg.

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Every Micato trip includes a lunch or dinner at the private home of one of your hosts, and on my first visit to Kenya I was lucky enough to meet both of them at their house, something that is it is still typical.

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