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Article: Obama sets cool, casual tone for new White House
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- January 29, 2009
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Barack Obama has gone coatless in the Oval Office. His meetings sometimes run late. He opened a session with corporate CEOs with good-natured grousing about his kids' snow days. And he gave GOP congressmen the green light to take a "whack" at him on Fox News.
Obama is launching his presidency with a laid-back style that is setting a cool-casual tone for the rest of the White House as well.
After his meeting with military commanders at the Pentagon ran late, the president apologized and admitted, "We kind of lost track of time."
Those are words that never would have been uttered by his famously punctual predecessor. George W. Bush once ordered the ...