President Obama briefly left the dais at the White House Correspondents Dinner as the news broke from Libya that Moammar Kadafi’s son had been killed in a NATO airstrike that targeted a house where the Libyan leader had been visiting.
Obama, along with First Lady Michelle Obama, had arrived at the dinner at the Washington Hilton Hotel about 8:30 p.m. Shortly thereafter, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates left the room, followed soon by the president.
