Obama, Romney to Meet at White House Luncheon Thursday

By Tom Curry, NBC News

Obama, Romney to Meet at White House Luncheon Thursday

November 29, 2012 Updated Nov 29, 2012 at 10:21 AM PDT

The winner of the presidential election will meet with the man he defeated Thursday as President Barack Obama has lunch at the White House with Mitt Romney.

The lunch is closed to reporters and camera crews and the two men are not expected to make any public statements after they break bread together.

Romney also went Thursday morning to a Washington hotel to meet for 90 minutes with his running mate, House Budget Committee chairman Paul Ryan, R-Wis., the first face-to-face meeting the two men have had since their defeat on Nov. 6.

Four years ago, after Obama defeated Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., he hosted a dinner for McCain on the night before he took the oath of office as president.

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