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elleng

(130,861 posts) Mon Sep 21, 2015, 11:59 PM Sep 2015

Obama will pick up Pope Francis at the airport.

It's not President Obama's M.O. to pick people up at the airport, but for the pope he'll make an exception.

When Pope Francis touches down at a military base outside of Washington, D.C., on Tuesday afternoon, the president will greet him personally. It's a welcome he "has extended to virtually no other foreign visitor," The New York Times reports.

http://theweek.com/speedreads/578448/obama-pick-pope-francis-airport

I WON'T be on the beltway tomorrow!