National Press Club

Myron Belkind, who worked as a foreign correspondent for four decades of his journalism career, wants to give the National Press Club a more global focus.

Belkind will have a chance to implement his vision as the Club’s 107th president, a post he won in the organization’s Dec. 13 election. He will assume the office at the Jan. 17 Club general membership meeting and will be inaugurated at a Jan. 25 gala dinner, which this year will have an international theme.

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Invest Mongolia, the Mongolian government’s new effort to attract foreign investment, will create a win-win situation for the country and investors, said Mongolian Cabinet Minister Saikhanbileg Chimed at a Dec. 9 National Press Club Newsmaker event.

Part of this effort includes the approval in October of the Mongolian Investment Legislation. This new law ends different rules for domestic and foreign private investors and provides investors with political and legal stability.

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The 2013 report from the Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange “will serve as a new road map to the future and lead to improved healthcare delivery,” said Dr. Louis W. Sullivan, former secretary of health and human services, at a Dec. 5 National Press Club Newsmaker event announcing the release of the 2013 WEDI report.

The report arises from a collaboration between the public and private sectors and places the patient in the center of healthcare, Sullivan said. He founded WEDI and served as honorary chair of the 2013 WEDI Report Executive Steering Committee.

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While Annise Parker is one of the first openly gay mayors in a major American city, the Houston mayor shied away from her status as a leading Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender -- LGBT -- figure during her appearance at a National Press Club Luncheon Dec. 10.

“The best thing I can do for the LGBT community, for my community, is to be the best mayor I can possibly be, to conduct myself with dignity and honor in all aspects,” Parker said.

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The following statement on Nelson Mandela was issued by Angela Greiling Keane, President of the National Press Club.

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Former Vice President Richard Cheney and Dr. Jonathan Reiner presented their book on Cheney’s health, Heart: An American Medical Odyssey, to a packed audience at the National Press Club on Dec 3.

Reiner described how “seemingly, every time (Cheney) had a medical event that … might stop his career or stop his life, medicine had an answer for it.” In each case, there was a medical answer and “the vice president used that medical event to not just survive the event but to thrive,” he emphasized.

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The National Executive Board of the FBI Agents Association (FBIAA) spoke on the impact of current budget cuts on the daily operations of the FBI, and other concerns associated with future cuts and furloughs at a Dec. 4 National Press Club Newsmaker event.

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Juan Manuel Santos, president of Colombia, laid out his agenda to advance his country's economic, political and social transformation during an appearance at the National Press Club on Dec. 3.

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National Press Club members who cover Congress should take note of an upcoming contest deadline for the David Lynch Memorial Regional Reporting Award. The deadline is Dec. 10 at 5 p.m.

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Dan Rather, a young reporter for CBS News, was the first to report that President John F. Kennedy was dead.

Not waiting for the official announcement, Rather said he had collected enough information from a hospital official, a doctor and a priest to convince himself that Kennedy was dead.

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