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NPC Newsmaker with Radio Caracas Television CEO Marcel Granier
On Thursday, May 18, at 10 a.m., the National Press Club will hold a Newsmaker news conference with the CEO of Venezuela’s Radio Caracas Television (RCTV), Marcel Granier, in the club’s Bloomberg Room. Venezuela is in the midst of a political and economic crisis. Despite having the world’s largest oil reserves, Venezuela is experiencing hyperinflation and a deep recession. Prices rose by 800 percent in 2016, with the International Monetary Fund predicting inflation could hit 2,200 percent by the end of 2017. Over the past two months, hundreds of thousands of protesters have taken to the…
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NPC Headliners Book Event: "Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama"
Pulitzer-Prize-winning historian David J. Garrow will share his latest book, Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama, at a National Press Club Headliners Event on Thursday, May 11 at 6:30 p.m. in the club’s conference rooms. Garrow spent nine years and interviewed more than a thousand people to shed light on the influences that helped shape Obama’s development on his road to the White House. This event will feature a discussion with the author, an audience question-and-answer session, and a book signing. Tickets are $5 for Press Club members and $10 for the public. Copies of the book can be…
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NPC Book Event: "Anatomy of Innocence"
NPC Book Event: "Shattered: Inside Hillary Clinton's Doomed Campaign"
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NPC Headliners Book Event: Chris Matthews & "Bobby Kennedy: A Raging Spirit"
NPC Book Event: "Anatomy of Innocence"
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NPC Newsmaker with Foreign Ministers from the Baltic States
The foreign ministers of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania will discuss their countries’ relations with the United States, as well as the importance of NATO to shared security, and other topics such as Russian influence, emerging threats, and the fight against terrorism at a National Press Club Newsmaker news conference 12 p.m., Tues., March 28 in the club’s Zenger Room. The foreign ministers are: • Sven Mikser, Estonia• Edgars Rinkevics, Latvia• Linas Linkevicius, Lithuania The National Press Club is located on the 13th Floor of the National Press Building at 529 14th St., NW, Washington, D.C.…
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NPC Newsmaker with Actors' Equity President Kate Shindle
President Donald Trump has called for deep cuts in domestic programs to fund a proposed $54 billion increase in defense spending and $10 billion for a border wall with Mexico. Some in the Congress and the administration have said that those cuts should include defunding the National Endowment for the Arts and its $149 million annual budget. Kate Shindle, President of the Actors’ Equity Association, representing 50,000 stage actors and stage managers across the nation, says NEA grants not only create jobs in the theatre but foster jobs in restaurants and hospitality, retail and transportation…
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Satirist P.J. O'Rourke Explains the 2016 Presidential Election
NPC Luncheon with Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Joseph F. Dunford
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NPC Book Rap: The Life and Legend of Baseball Great Leo Durocher
Mardi Gras and Jazz Night at the Reliable Source
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National Commander of the American Legion Charles E. Schmidt
Charles E. Schmidt, the National Commander of The American Legion, the nation’s largest Veterans organization, will discuss ways that the Trump Administration and Congress can improve the delivery of benefits to the country’s more than 20 million veterans at a National Press Club Newsmaker news conference, 10 a.m., Wed., Feb. 22 in the club’s Bloomberg Room. On March 1 Schmidt will testify before a joint session of the House and Senate Committees on Veterans’ Affairs. He also is expected to meet with the new Secretary of Veterans Affairs David Shulkin during his visit to Washington. Schmidt,…
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Special Screening :The Trials of Spring | Women human rights activists in the Arab Uprisings
The Kalb Report - The Press and the Presidency: It's Complicated!
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