Talk:State visits to the United States

Arrival at state dinners
The article says, with sources: "At state dinners in which the principal visitor is only a chief of government, the Chief of Protocol of the United States will greet the visitor instead. They will then be escorted into the Entrance Hall and presented to the president." But the embedded video shows Matteo Renzi, a head of government and not of state, being greeted at the portico by the president. What accounts for the contradiction? I would guess either the sources are outdated and that distinction was dropped at some point, with heads of government now getting equivalent treatment, or perhaps protocol here has long been more flexible or inconsistent than we currently say. Either way, the article should not make a statement flatly contradicted by the very video it uses to illustrate the point. Beorhtwulf (talk) 04:59, 27 November 2020 (UTC)


 * Agreed. Made an update. TryingToKeepItRight (talk) 04:14, 12 March 2023 (UTC)