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The White House Correspondents’ Association dinner is back on. But why?
After April’s violence, this felt like the moment to reconsider the dinner’s purpose, not simply reschedule it
Why?
That was the first thought that popped into my head Tuesday when the White House Correspondents’ Association announced it would reschedule its annual swanky dinner for July 24 in Washington, D.C.
When the WHCA held its dinner back in April, it was abruptly cut short when a shooter tried to enter the event and fired on a Secret Service agent, who, fortunately, suffered only minor injuries.