From the Top, the White House Loosens Its Buttoned-Up Style.

White House Unbuttons Formal Dress Code. The capital flew into a bit of a tizzy when, in his first days in the White House, President Obama was photographed in the Oval Office without his suit jacket. However, it was a logical explanation: Mr. Obama, who hates the cold, had cranked up thermostat.He read several newspapers, eating breakfast with the family and help to pack their daughters, Mali, 10, and Sasha, 7, at school before makes the 30-second commute below - a clear additional benefit for a man who tries to balance work and family. He is a dining table with his family, often back to work, aides have seen him in the Oval Office as late as 10 pm, reading briefing papers for the next day. West Wing, Mr. Obama is a bit of a wanderer. When Mr. Bush wanted to see a member of his staff, the aide was summoned to the Oval Office. But Mr. Obama has a tendency to wander the halls; one day last week, he showed up at the office of his press secretary, Robert Gibbs, who was in a bad position to have their feet up on the desktop when the head was at. 

Mr. Obama has also retained the long presidential tradition weekly lunches with his Vice President. For Mr. Obama, lunch means a general Cheese Burger, chicken or fish in his small living room outside the Oval Office. There is also a new addition to the White House Kitchen: refrigerator stocked with presidential favorite organic brew, honest Tea in Mr. Obama's favorite varieties of Black Forest Berry and Green Dragon.The carpet, there are still so Presidential Decree portretter Mr. Bush appointed - one of Washington, one of Lincoln - and a collection of decorative green and white plates. During a meeting last week with retired military officers, before he signed a decree closing the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, Mr. Obama has mapped their new surroundings with a critical eye.

This was a strict rule of George W. Bush administration, jacket and tie in the Oval Office at all times - fall roadside, only the first of many signs that a more informal culture has grown up in the White House under new management. Mr. Obama has promised to bring change to Washington, and he has - not only in content but in the presidential style. Although his presidency is barely a week old, some of Mr. Obama's work habits are already clear. He comes up in the Oval Office shortly before 9, around two hours later than his early to bed early to rise predecessor. Mr. Obama will have his workout - weights and cardio - first in the morning to 6:45.

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