Obama: Yo-Yo Ma should advise me about likeability

Published December 5, 2011 5:00am ET



President Obama, during an event in honor of five renowned artists, suggested that the White House create a “Yo-Yo Ma room” for the cellist, and suggested lightheartedly that Yo-Yo Ma give him advice about how to get more people to like him and his policies.

“[Yo-Yo Ma] is something of a regular here at the White House,” Obama said last night at the White House. ” I was telling him we need to give him a room. [We could have] the Blue Room, the Red Room, and the Yo-Yo Ma room.  We keep inviting him, and for some reason, he keeps on coming back,” Obama said.

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