Wall Street Bundles to Bradley Cooper: Within State Dinner lists of customers

Guest lists for state dinners White House ledgers are shown in bold people who want to influence and reward presidents. On Thursday, the state dinner President Obama is for the Prime Minister of Canada Justin Trudeau. Here we deconstruct the guest lists of the previous nine

35% Of the guests they were from the business sector and Wall Street

1,350 invited to the state dinner Obama - we are not including spouses or dates of which guests bring along - about 12 percent were "balers" - people great contributions to the Obama campaign of cluster contacts and friends. About 60 percent, about 800 people, were members of the administration, Congress, to be invited to the diplomatic corps and official delegations.

The remaining 550 people, the White House really wanted to invite, make up the group we are discussing here.

The largest number of this group - 35 percent - came from the world of business and Wall Street. Many were balers. President Obama may have once called big bankers shameful, but found a door welcome at the White House.

Clients include (balers in all categories are shown in bold): Lloyd Blankfein, Goldman Sachs; Sir Richard Branson, Virgin Group; Warren Buffett, Berkshire Hathaway; Kenneth Chenault, American Express; Jamie Dimon, JP Morgan Chase & Co.; Fred Eychaner Newsweb Corporation; Larry Fink, BlackRock; Mark Gallogly, Centerbridge Partners; James Gorman, Morgan Stanley; Jeff Immelt, General Electric; Hamilton (Tony) James, Blackstone; Thomas F. (Mack) McLarty III, McLarty Associates; Alan Mulally, Ford Motor Co.; Scott A. Nathan, the Baupost Group; Indra Nooyi, PepsiCo; Virginia M. Rometty, IBM; Stephen Schwarzman, Blackstone Group; Carlos Slim, Telmex; and Robert Wolf, UBS.

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