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WASHINGTON — White House social secretary Desiree Rogers is stepping down three months after an uninvited couple crashed the Obama administration’s first state dinner and she was heavily criticized for her role in allowing the embarrassing episode to happen.
President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama issued a statement Friday thanking their longtime friend from their days together in Chicago for the “terrific job she’s done” organizing more than 330 events in little more than a year in the post.
White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said Rogers was neither forced out nor asked to leave. He also said he didn’t think the dustup over the state dinner factored into her decision.
