U.S. President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama attend dinner with ReGina Newkirk (top L), a non-profit executive from Nashville, Tennessee, Robert Newkirk, Sr. (bottom L), a professor at Tennessee State University from Nashville, Cathleen Loringer (C), a former social worker from Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, and her guest John Loringer, an attorney from Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, and Judy Glassman (R), a retired school administrator from Cambridge, Massachusetts, at a restaurant in Washington March 8, 2012. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts (UNITED STATES – Tags: POLITICS)