This Week in NPC History: Truman reminisces during National Press Club appearance

This Week In National Press Club History:

Nov. 2, 1961: Former President Harry S. Truman reminisces about his White House years before a capacity National Press Club luncheon crowd. He criticizes the economic policies of the Eisenhower administration, and reviews the priorities of the new Kennedy administration favorably.

Nov. 4, 1982: Simeon Booker, of Johnson Publications, is the tenth recipient of the Press Club’s Fourth Estate Award.

Nov. 6, 1990: Mstislav Rostropovich, music director of the National Symphony Orchestra and one of the world’s great cellists, speaks as a Soviet émigré about current conditions in Russia.

Nov. 8, 2001: Laurence Leamer, journalist and Kennedy expert, appears at the Club’s Book Fair and Author Night and signs copies of The Kennedy Men.

This Week In National Press Club History is sponsored by the History & Heritage Committee, which preserves and revitalizes the Club’s exciting history through panel discussions, special events, oral histories and lobby displays of guests over the years in business, entertainment, international affairs, and national politics. For more information on the Committee’s activities, or to join it, contact Chair Gilbert Klein at [email protected].