Maybe someone should call and ask if this is appropriate protocol? (I can’t be making long distance calls at the moment, or spending any money I don’t absolutely HAVE to, or I would do it myself...)
For Protocol Questions: 202-647-1735
I looked for an email, but alas there is none...
THE WORLD; The President's Inclination: No, It Wasn't a Bow-Bow
Sunday, June 19, 1994
But the "thou need not bow" commandment from the State Department's protocol office maintained a constancy of more than 200 years. Administration officials scurried to insist that the eager-to-please President [Clinton] had not really done the unthinkable. [The 'unthinkable? A bow]