Word has it that Richard Blum (husband of Senator Dianne Feinstein), who served as an escort to the country’s new first lady during Tuesday’s ceremony, added a Tibetan flair to the proceedings. In a Tuesday afternoon email to a high-ranking Tibetan diplomat, Blum wrote:
I had a kata at my house that His Holiness had given me. I offered it to President Obama before the ceremony. I said that I could get it delivered to him later. He said, no, that he was going to take it and have it with him; in fact, it was in his pocket when he was sworn-in.