"Did Barbra Streisand Whup Sonny Liston?"

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Late last year, the Secret Service was embarrassed by the revelation that an uninvited couple had worked their way past security checkpoints and been photographed with Barack Obama at a White House state dinner honoring the Prime Minister of India.

Been there, done that. Sort of.

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On February 7, 1996, I was in the lobby of the ANA-Westin Hotel in Washington DC with Muhammad Ali, Jim Brown, Ralph Boston, and a handful of others. That night, HBO would present a promotional screening of The Journey of the African-American Athlete. In anticipation of the event, ten people had been invited to the White House to meet with President Clinton in the Oval Office. My name was on the list, along with Nancy Bronson, whom I’d been dating for six months. The mini-bus that would take us to the White House was pulling up to the hotel when Seth Abraham (then President of Time Warner Sports) approached me with a look of consternation.

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http://www.secondsout.com/columns/thomas-hauser/did-barbra-streisand-whup-sonny-liston

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