NPC History: The president drops in for a chat

This Week in National Press Club History

Nov.18, 1910: Former President Theodore Roosevelt stops by the Club in the evening for what were then informal chats rather than formal head table speeches, and talks about his recent game-hunting safari in Africa.

Nov. 18, 1987: Soprano Beverly Sills, General Manager of the New York City Opera, and Chairman of the Metropolitan Opera, discusses birth defects on behalf of the March of Dimes at a Club luncheon on November , 1987. Her two children were born with severe disabilities.

This Week In National Press Club History is brought to you by the History & Heritage Committee, which preserves and revitalizes the Club’s history through displays, panel discussions, events, lectures, and the oral history project.