President greets more than 1,000
President Leonel Fernandez stood in a New Year's reception line for over four and a half hours, and was greeted by a huge number of people. The yearly procession was headed by the Papal Nuncio, Monsignor Timothy Broglio, and Dominican Cardinal Lopez Rodriguez and other religious leaders, followed by the diplomatic corps and the military. The marathon event, a yearly test of Presidential endurance was, according to witnesses, the longest ever. The President and his wife were accompanied by the Vice President, Rafael Alburquerque and his wife during the four and a half hour event. For most of those present, it was a case of see and be seen; appropriate for a visit to the Presidential Palace.
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