The Gates-gate Press Conferences (8 images)

U.S. President Barack Obama makes an unannounced visit to the White House Press Brady Briefing room on July 24, 2009 to comment on his remarks made during his prime-time press conference on July 22 on the Henry Louis Gates Jr.'s arrest by a Cambridge police officer in Washington on July 24, 2009. (UPI Photo/Kristoffer Tripplaar/Pool)

Sgt. James Crowley, of the Cambridge Police Department, attends a press conference held by police officials in support of him at the Hotel Marlowe in Cambridge, Massachusetts on July 24, 2009. Crowley was the officer who arrested Harvard University Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. on July 16, 2009 for disorderly conduct, causing controversy questioning whether Crowley's actions were racially motivated. (UPI Photo/Mark Thomson)

U.S. President Barack Obama makes an unannounced visit to the White House Press Brady Briefing room on July 24, 2009 to comment on his remarks made during his prime-time press conference on July 22 on the Henry Louis Gates Jr.'s arrest by a Cambridge police officer in Washington on July 24, 2009. (UPI Photo/Kristoffer Tripplaar/Pool)

Sgt. James Crowley, of the Cambridge Police Department, attends a press conference held by police officials in support of him at the Hotel Marlowe in Cambridge, Massachusetts on July 24, 2009. Crowley was the officer who arrested Harvard University Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. on July 16, 2009 for disorderly conduct, causing controversy questioning whether Crowley's actions were racially motivated. (UPI Photo/Mark Thomson)