When they share a beer at the White House Thursday evening, President Obama, Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Sgt. James Crowley will likely sit at a picnic table outside the Oval Office, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said this morning.
“This is about having a beer and de-escalate,” Gibbs said during the press gaggle. “What the president talked about is the chance to talk and the chance to have a dialogue.”
The event, scheduled for 6 p.m., will be a photo op for the press and Crowley will probably bring family, Gibbs said.
Crowley suggested the meeting, said Obama, who took over Friday’s press briefing to make comments about the racially charged incident between Gates, a black Harvard professor, and Crowley, a white Cambridge Police officer.
