Obama plays peacemaker at beer summit
From: The Washington Times | July 31, 2009
President Obama hoisted beers in the Rose Garden on Thursday evening with the black professor and white police officer at the heart of a racially charged incident that captivated the nation and damaged the president’s standing at a critical moment in his first year in office. Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Cambridge, Mass., police Sgt. James Crowley wore dark suits and sipped from tall, frosty glass mugs as they sat next to each other and across from Mr. Obama and Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., who was a surprise guest at the meeting. Afterward, Sgt. Crowley said …
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