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Is this the same crown family whose house you stayed in to ski?


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> From: White House Press Office <noreply@messages.whitehouse.gov>
> Date: June 1, 2012 10:31:08 PM EDT
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> Subject: Fw: Pool #11
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> From: Parsons, Christi [mailto:christi.parsons@latimes.com]
> Sent: Friday, June 01, 2012 10:25 PM
> To: Lewin, Jesse
> Cc: Parsons, Christi <christi.parsons@latimes.com>
> Subject: Pool #11
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> The final fundraiser of the night was at the Gold Coast home of Jim Crown, president of Henry Crown and Company, a privately owned investment company.
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> Bulls coach Tom Thibodeau was to be one of the guests, but poolers didn't catch a glimpse of him. Tickets were $35,800 per person and roughly 40 were present.
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> Jim and Paula Crown hosted a group of about fifty in the library of their home. In introducing the president, Paula Crown read from an Obama speech of February 2007, in which he talked about "sharing some measure of sacrifice." The group was there to do its part, she said.
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> "You guys know me, you don't need to hear a lot of speechmaking," Obama said, before doing a short version of his stump speech.
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> On comprehensive immigration reform, women's health issues and protecting the environment, he said, he differs from Mitt Romney.
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> "Gov. Romney thinks differently," he said.
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> "Whatever their background, race, surname ..." people should be able to make a living, he said, even if they can't be as prosperous as Lester Crown or Neil Blum.
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> If they understand the choices we have to make, Obama said, "I believe we're going to win."
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> Bill Daley, Rahm Emanuel and John Rogers were standing near the back in proximity to the pool.
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> At 9:15 p.m. CST, we are holding in the vans outside the home, looking at Lake Shore Drive and, beyond it, the black expanse of Lake Michigan.
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> Christi Parsons
> cparsons@tribune.com
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