Free beer at the White House for some, but CEOs were made to pay for lunch

September 15th, 2009 LONDON - A new libido-boosting beer, which is said to be more effective than Viagra, and has an "instant" effect, has been launched in Europe. Juergen Hopf, the brewer of the erotic tonic, claims that he made the uplifting discovery by accident when machines at his automated brewery in Schoenbrunn in Bavaria, Germany, broke down.

August 12th, 2009 WASHINGTON - The White House counsel had asked the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine to withdraw a new unauthorized ad campaign featuring President Barak Obama's two young daughters - Sasha and Malia. Obama's press secretary Robert Gibbs expressed displeasure at unauthorized use for advertising.

August 1st, 2009 WASHINGTON - For all practical purposes, the so-called "Beer Summit" held at the White House on Thursday between President Barack Obama, black Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Cambridge, Massachusetts police sergeant James Crowley, has fallen flat in the public and the media's imagination.

July 30th, 2009 WASHINGTON - US President Barack Obama, Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates and the police officer who arrested him, Sgt. Joseph Crowley are set to meet Thursday for a beer, snubbing the caller whose call to 911 led to the arrest of the Afro-American professor.

July 30th, 2009 Obama hopes 'beer summit' defuses racial disputeWASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is hoping his "beer summit" Thursday with Cambridge, Mass., police Sgt. James Crowley and Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr.

July 30th, 2009 Obama says it's a beer, not a summitWASHINGTON — With mugs of beer and a few minutes of conversation, President Barack Obama tried to pull himself and the nation beyond an uproar over race, sitting on his big back lawn with the black professor and the white policeman whose dispute had ignited a week of fierce debate. Under the canopy of a magnolia tree Thursday evening, a shirt-sleeved Obama joined the other players in a story that had knocked the White House off message: Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr.

July 29th, 2009 WASHINGTON - U.S. President Barack Obama, Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

July 28th, 2009 Obama: Take heat out of Gates-Crowley brouhahaWASHINGTON — The chief White House spokesman said a Thursday meeting of the president, a Harvard University scholar and the policeman who arrested him will be "about having a beer and de-escalation." Robert Gibbs said Tuesday that the session, weather permitting, is planned for 6 p.m. at a picnic table outside the Oval Office.

July 28th, 2009 Obama hopes Gates, Crowley come for a beerWASHINGTON — The professor, the policeman and the president hope to share a beer at the White House this week. The gathering may help President Barack Obama write a sudsy but happy ending to an arrest that triggered a fierce debate over race relations and briefly knocked him off his stride.

July 27th, 2009 White House hopes Gates, Crowley come for beerWASHINGTON — The White House says plans are under way for the police officer and professor at the center of a racial controversy to join President Barack Obama for a beer. Spokesman Robert Gibbs says he hopes Sgt.

July 25th, 2009 WASHINGTON - In a bid to diffuse the controversial racial row following his remark in the arrest of a Black Harvard professor, US President Barack Obama has telephoned and invited the White Sergeant and the professor to the White House for a beer. "My impression of him was that he was an outstanding police -officer and a good man," Obama revealed, adding that he made a five minute long telephone call to the concerned officer.

July 6th, 2009 LONDON - A beer festival, called the Beer on the Wye festival, in Herefordshire had to close before time, because customers drank the bar dry. The festival, which was to run until July 5, had to close after running out of beer, cider and perry on Saturday.

May 29th, 2009 Obama stops at Five Guys for cheeseburgerWASHINGTON — For a health food nut, President Barack Obama sure likes his burgers. Obama made a surprise lunchtime stop at Five Guys, a fast-food restaurant in Washington.

May 29th, 2009 Obama stops in SE Washington for cheeseburgerWASHINGTON — President Barack Obama made a surprise lunchtime stop at Five Guys, a fast-food restaurant in southeast Washington. The president ordered a cheeseburger with lettuce, tomato, jalapeno peppers, and mustard as well as several other cheeseburgers to go.

January 6th, 2009 WASHINGTON - US President George W. Bush will host former presidents and his successor, Barack Obama, at the White House for a private meeting during lunch Wednesday, the White House said.