page_title: List of dining events
section_title: The White House
hierarchical_section_title: List of dining events / Dinners / The White House
caption_attribution_description: English: President Barack Obama hosts an Iftar dinner celebrating Ramadan in the East Room of the White House
context_page_description: This is a list of historic and contemporary dining events, which includes banquets, feasts, dinners and dinner parties. Such gatherings involving dining sometimes consist of elaborate affairs with full course dinners and various beverages, while others are simpler in nature.
context_section_description: Booker T. Washington dinner at the White House – On 16 October 1901, shortly after moving into the White House, Theodore Roosevelt invited his adviser, the African American spokesman Booker T. Washington, to dine with him and his family, and provoked an outpouring of condemnation from southern politicians and press. This reaction affected subsequent White House practice, and no other African American was invited to dinner for almost thirty years.
  White House Correspondents' Dinner – first occurring in 1921, it has become a Washington, D.C. tradition and is traditionally attended by the president and vice president. Fifteen presidents have attended at least one White House Correspondents' Association dinner, beginning with Calvin Coolidge in 1924.  The dinner is traditionally held on the evening of the last Saturday in April at the Washington Hilton.
  White House Iftar dinner – an annual reception held at the White House and hosted by the U.S. President and the First Lady to celebrate the Muslim month of Ramadan. Discontinued by President Donald Trump in 2017  and then reestablished at the White House on June 6, 2018.
caption: President Barack Obama hosting the White House Iftar dinner celebrating Ramadan in the East Room of the White House in 2015
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