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Chiyo-chichi

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8. "Required?" Maybe not. But it has been tradition since FDR.
Mon Feb 20, 2017, 09:39 AM
Feb 2017

Sixteen news agencies wrote him a letter imploring him to maintain this tradition after the first time he ditched them and went to a steakhouse.

http://www.press.org/news-multimedia/president/2016/11/open-letter-president-elect-donald-trump

Further thoughts on why this is necessary in this Slate article: http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2016/11/16/why_the_press_is_right_to_freak_out_over_trump_sneaking_to_a_steakhouse.html

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