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Press Club Rewind is a weekly video review of events at the National Press Club. In this week's edition: the role of Cronkite, Rooney and other reporters during World War II; former NPC president Rick Dunham on Twitter; banker Rajat M. Nag outlines challenges for Asian countries; plus the national debt, health care costs and more.
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Tennis legend Billie Jean King urged more tennis to combat American children's obesity at a May 9 club luncheon.
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Bob Woodward, the Washington Post investigative reporter and editor whose work on the Watergate scandal led to the resignation of an American president, has been selected as the 2012 recipient of the Fourth Estate Award, the National Press Club’s most-honored prize.
Jazz great Louis Armstrong was in Washington on January 29, 1971 to perform at the Inauguration of then incoming National Press Club President Vernon Louviere, a fellow native of New Orleans. Satchmo at The National Press Club: Red Beans & Rice-ly Yours, which would be the last issued recording of Louis Armstrong playing the trumpet before his death, has never been widely released... until now.
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The annual NPC "Beat the Deadline" 5K race benefits the ongoing work of the National Press Club Journalism Institute. The Institute is committed to helping working journalists improve their skills through ongoing training and programming of future journalists through scholarships that promote diversity within our profession.
The chief executive officer of the Girl Scouts of America, Anna Marie Chavez, said the century-old organization is working with the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops to address any concerns.
“We’re working with the Conference of Bishops to answer some questions they have,” Chavez said during a luncheon Wednesday. “We do not take positions on some of these issues that we’re being alleged to take positions on.”
Join your fellow members for a lively discussion on the latest reads while enjoying the Club's famous brunch.
Books & Brunch is typically held on the third Saturday of the month in the Fourth Estate Restaurant at noon. Previous books include "The Privileges" by Jonathan Dee, “Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey: The Lost Legacy of Highclere Castle” by Fiona Carnarvon and "44 Scotland Street" by Alexander McCall Smith. Selections alternate between fiction and non-fiction books and are determined by those attending each meeting.
The global impact of the conviction of former Liberian president Charles
Taylor of war crimes -- and his 50-year prison sentence -- will be discussed
by a panel of experts from 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. Tuesday, June 5, in the Holeman
Lounge.
The panel discussion, organized by the International Correspondents
Committee, follows the May 30 sentencing of Taylor for aiding and abetting
war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by rebel forces during
Sierra Leone¹s decade-long civil war.
Taylor was found guilty on April 26 by the Special Court for Sierra Leone at
May 29, 2012 | By Rachel Oswald
The National Press Club on Friday urged the Malaysian government to honor its promise to reform the country's oppressive press laws and cease targeting journalists who publish critical stories.

Louis Armstrong was in Washington on January 29, 1971 to perform at the Inauguration of then incoming National Press Club President Vernon Louviere, a fellow native of New Orleans. Armstrong had been too ill to play trumpet for much of 1970, but on this evening Armstrong, backed by a group that included trombonist Tyree Glenn and Tommy Gwaltney on clarinet, performed for nearly 30 minutes, playing trumpet in addition to singing.
Satchmo at The National Press Club: Red Beans & Rice-ly Yours, which would be the last issued recording of Louis Armstrong playing the trumpet before his death, has never been widely released... until now.