Of course it is
I understand what you are saying, so let’s see if they had time to respond:
White House Schedule - April 8, 2013
http://www.whitehouse.gov/schedule/complete
No public schedule.
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I would expect that the death of one of our Ally’s previous executive leaders would warrant a very quick acknowledgement, except when schedules prevented such action. Clearly, their schedule was not in the way of a well thought out and timely statement.