Or at least her staff was. The first lady’s office controlled use of the White House grounds, and the South Lawn had just been resodded after a thousand energized supporters tromped all over it during the Republican National Convention. The last thing Melania’s office wanted was to ruin the expensive repair work with another large crowd tearing up the backyard. So it rejected the request. Kushner and his team were dumbfounded. They were making history and could not use the lawn? After all the delicate bargaining to bring Israelis and Arabs together, resolving part of the world’s greatest
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