GREEN & GLOVER: Tipper the drummer

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By Stephanie Green and Elizabeth Glover

Tipper's traps

Who was that blonde playing alongside drummer Mickey Hart at Tuesday night's Dead show at the Verizon Center?

Why, it was Tipper Gore, rocking out to "Sugar Magnolia." Our colleague and longtime Deadhead Karen Goldberg Goff reports that Mrs. Gore - who used to play drums in an all-girl rock band back in high school in Arlington - was actually quite good when she joined the band in the third set.

Mrs. Gore remained onstage through the encores, dancing along to "Uncle John's Band" and "Ripple" before joining the reunited band members for a final bow.

Earlier in the day, band members dropped in on President Obama at the White House and paid a visit to their favorite D.C. haunt, the Old Ebbitt Grill.

Tapper taps

Jake Tapper, ABC News White House correspondent and Political Punch blogger for the network's Web site, is the first to admit he's had trouble reconciling the breezy rhetorical license of the blogosphere with the self-restraint and impartiality expected of a network correspondent.

The multimedia straddle may have just gotten a little harder.

"Lovely pix of the Obamas," Mr. Tapper tweeted April 14. "Very much the Camelot Huxtables. Btwn this + yesterday's Easter Egg roll, i'm going into diabetic shock."