WASHINGTON -- The White House will make at least one change to its screening practices for invitation-only events after an attention-hungry couple was able to crash the Obama administration's first state dinner.
The White House social office will go back to making sure that one of its staff members will be present at the gates to help the Secret Service if questions come up, the first lady's communication director Camille Johnston told The Associated Press Tuesday.
An administration official said Tuesday evening that a senior Pentagon official did try to get the Virginia couple, Tareq and Michaele Salahi, access to the White House state dinner, but later told them in a voice mail that she couldn't get them in.
"I can tell you we did not party-crash the White House," Tareq Salahi told NBC's "Today" show Tuesday morning.
