AP Exclusive: Tourists enjoy White House breakfast (AP)

Courtesy Ytop stories  Tue, 12/15/2009 - 6:31pm

FILE - In this Nov. 18, 2008, file photo, the White House is seen in Washington.<br /><br />The White House is once again explaining how uninvited guests wound up shaking hands with President Barack Obama.<br /><br />This time, a Georgia couple hoping to tour the White House ended up at an invitation-only Veterans Day breakfast on Nov. 11, 2009.<br /><br />Officials say the couple mistakenly showed up a day early and were allowed into the breakfast because there were no public tours available.<br /><br />(AP Photo/Ron Edmonds)AP - It wasn't a state dinner, and they didn't crash it on purpose.

Still, a Georgia couple who showed up at the White House a day early for a tour somehow wound up at an invitation-only breakfast with President Barack Obama and the first lady.

It left the White House once again explaining how people who were not on an event guest list wound up being ushered into the presidential mansion anyway.



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