It takes brains, a wonderful sense of humor and money to pull this off.
Like a stage production, every eventually had been covered and rehearsed over and over again.
I myself love high Drama and this is about as close as one can get to it. They had to be prepared as to what they would or would not do when speaking with anyone there. Just one tiny mistake could cause people to wonder about them.
Being on the Country Club and Yacht Club lists they must have realised that this was just a really big time and people are people EGOS must be fed. Somehow they had to act at all times as if they expected respect form others-----I have yet to see a picture of them groveling at the feet of those attending.-------Big dig at Obama here.
I would love to have close relatives like these people. They may be crooks but when it comes to having fun, doing outrageous things that takes much work, practice, and a dare devil attitude, what ever happens now, 30 years from now they will remember the time they had the time of their life.
Only question I have is that this State dinner had to be a sit down meal [ so they must have had inside knowledge and help.]
Name tags at the tables, they had to have known that for some reason 2 of the invited would not be able to make it and had someone place their names at the seats of the absent couple.
I wonder what the menu was.
What fun, right out of a James Bond movie.