 KUWAIT-AMERICA FOUNDATION
2008 GALA DINNER Embassy Residence of Kuwait
PHOTOGRAPHS BY VICKI POMBO AND KYLE SAMPERTON
THE EVENT:When Kuwaiti Ambassador Salem Al-Sabah and his wife Rima host a gala dinner, the guest list will include the capital’s top VIPs. President George W.
Bush, First Lady Laura Bush, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, and former
aide turned pundit Karl Rove all turned out to support the “Stand for Africa”
anti-malaria dinner. The President, just back from his tour of Africa, joked in his
speech that he was in the middle of watching Father of the Bride at wife Laura’s
request – their daughter Jenna is engaged to longtime beau Henry Hager. THE
SCENE: Charlie Rose emceed while Grammy-award winning Senegalese singer
Youssou N’Dour got the room clapping to his mbalax tunes. THE GUESTS
Justice Samuel Alito, Secretary of Commerce Carlos Gutierrez, National
Security Advisor Stephen Hadley, White House Chief of Staff Joshua Bolten,
Mayor Adrian Fenty, Joint Chief of Staff Chairman Admiral Michael Mullen,
Sen. Robert Bennett , House Republican Whip Roy Blunt, Rep. John Dingell,
composer Marvin Hamlisch, and actress Bo Derek as well as a number of top
corporate executives who had contributed $1.6 million to fi ght the disease.
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