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In West Winging It: An Un-presidential Memoir, senior writer Pat Cunnane tells how Obama's White House became 'Hollywood East' for its frequent celebrity guests
'You never knew who you would run into on the way to the mess, or who was waiting for you to exit the restroom...we had no shortage of high profile guests at the White House,' he writes
Cunnane reveals Obama's obsession with golf was a nightmare for press wranglers who had to block them from nabbing a photo of him playing rounds
'A duffed chip or missed putt could draw out trite, stretched analogies to a failed policy or flawed rollout from a bored press pool,' Cunnane writes
Obama also caused a frenzy when he left the White House for a coffee run without the press pool
The former press wrangler told how the president's style improved over time since at times he wore' unusually tight sweatpants and sandals with white socks'
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