It was the first full day of the Summit of the Americas. With 33 other Western Hemisphere leaders, thousands of delegates and a raucous press corps squeezed into a Hyatt Regency hotel, President Barack Obama found it tough to keep a low profile.
Everybody seemed to want a piece of him.
The president was mobbed during the opening plenary session by delegates elbowing their way toward him for photographs — among them Ruben Blades, the Panamanian singer and actor, who accompanied Panama’s foreign minister to the session.
Later, as the leaders gathered for their official “family photograph,” Prime Minister Stephenson King of St. Lucia produced a copy of Obama’s memoir, “Dreams From My Father,” and asked the president for his autograph. Obama asked someone the date — he wanted to record it with his signature — and obliged.
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