Alfalfa Club
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Alfalfa Club
Motto Bis dat, qui cito dat.[1] (He gives twice who gives promptly.)
Formation 1913; 106 years ago
Type Club
Purpose Hosts annual banquet on the last Saturday of January
Location
Washington, D.C.
Membership
~200 politicians and corporate executives
The Alfalfa Club is a social club that exists only to hold an annual black tie banquet on the last Saturday of January at the Capital Hilton in Washington D.C., with an after-party at a local restaurant.[2] The banquet, which lasts 4 hours, features music by the United States Marine Band as well as a political roast. There are approximately 200 members of the club, all of them influential politicians and business executives. The club has an invitation system; members are required to be invited to join.[3] Several Presidents of the United States have been members of the club. The press is not allowed to attend the banquet.
The club was named in reference to the alfalfa plant's supposed willingness to "do anything for a drink".[2]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfalfa_Club
If in attendance, the President of the United States is usually asked to deliver remarks at the banquet. President George W. Bush spoke at the banquet each year of his presidency;[4] the Alfalfa Club was one of only three clubs that his father, George H. W. Bush, was a member of as president.[5] President Obama attended and spoke at the banquet in 2009 and in 2012. Donald Trump has not attended the event but Ivanka Trump has.