Obama Meets At White House With Mormon Leader

Yesterday President Obama met at the White House with Thomas S. Monson, president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. KSL-TV and the Salt Lake Tribune both report on the meeting at which Monson presented the President with a specially-researched 5-volume leather-bound history of the Obama family gong back hundreds of years. After the meeting, Obama issued a statement, in part expressing his appreciation for the genealogical records. The White House meeting was arranged by Nevada Senator (and majority leader) Harry Reid. Also attending the Oval Office meeting was Mormon Elder Dallin Oaks, who once taught at the University of Chicago Law School (as did Obama).