WASHINGTON – The White House scored a stroke for gender equality in sports on
Sunday.
President Barack Obama's chief domestic policy adviser, Melody Barnes, became
the first woman to play in the president's golf foursome. She joined the
president, Marvin Nicholson, the White House trip director, and Dr. Eric
Whitaker, the executive vice president at the University of Chicago Medical
Center, for a round on the Army's Fort Belvoir golf course.
Obama has been criticized for playing basketball with men and no women, most
recently in Sunday's New York Times.
White House deputy press secretary William Burton confirmed the first. "He
golfed with women on the campaign trail but not until Melody this year," Burton
said.
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