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NPC Speakers Breakfast with Reince Priebus
Republican National Committee Chair Reince Priebus addressed a National Press Club Speakers Breakfast on March 18, 2013. Priebus, who was re-elected as RNC Chair in January following a challenging 2012 election, discussed the forward strategy of the Republican Party.
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NPC Luncheon with Thomas Drake
Thomas Drake, a former Senior Executive at NSA who was charged under the espionage act after he blew the whistle on waste and fraud and illegal activity at the intelligence agency, spoke at a March 15, 2013 National Press Club luncheon. Drake's event was part of the club's celebration of Sunshine Week, a national initiative to underscore the importance of open government and freedom of information.
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NPC Luncheon with Mariska Hargitay
Emmy Award-winner Mariska Hargitay, who stars as Olivia Benson on television's "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit," spoke at a March 13, 2013 National Press Club Speakers Luncheon. Hargitay is also the founder of Joyful Heart Foundation, whose mission is of healing, educating and empowering survivors of sexual assault, domestic violence and child abuse.
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Press Club Rewind - 3.11.2013
Press Club Rewind is a weekly review of events at the National Press Club. In this week's edition: Former Ambassador Prudence Bushnell urges a review of embassy security procedures; state-level politicians look at Obamacare implementation from the right and left; the EU ambassador to the U.S. makes the case for a trade agreement; Rep. Jim McGovern (D-MA) argues for taking Cuba off the State Department's list of countries that support terrorism; Hillary Clinton makes a strong showing in the Quinnipiac poll; and author William C. Moyers shares his story of addiction and recovery.
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NPC Special Event: the Inauguration of Angela Greiling Keane
Angela Greiling Keane, a reporter for Bloomberg News, was inaugurated as the 106th president of the National Press Club was on Saturday, January 26. Former NPC president Donna Leiwand Leger served as the Mistress of Ceremonies for the formal dinner and celebration in the crowded ball room. The evening was marked with a proclamation from DC Mayor Vincent Gray, congratulations from Ambassadors, and a keynote address from Tim Franklin, managing editor for Bloomberg News. With her daughter holding the oversize plastic wedge of Wisconsin cheese the incoming president took her oath of office as…
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Press Club Rewind - 3.4.2013
Press Club Rewind is a weekly review of events at the National Press Club. In this week's edition: millionaire space tourist Dennis Tito outlines plans for a (wo)manned mission to Mars; the club celebrates the centennial of the Women's Suffrage Parade; former adversaries in the Palestinian-Israeli divide come together to promote peace; economist Dean Baker asserts that deficit reduction is a losing argument for both Democrats and Republicans; a nuclear power executive attempts to get skilled immigrants to stay in the U.S.; and Gov. Peter Shumlin of Vermont promotes literacy by sharing his…
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A Celebration of Suffrage at The National Press Club
A gala National Press Club reception commemorating the 1913 march in Washington that led to voting rights for women. Featuring speeches by National Women’s History Museum president Joan Wages, ABC-7 anchor Maureen Bunyan and NPC president Angela Greiling Keane. Also includes a panel discussion moderated by Newsweek contributing editor and “McLaughlin Group” panelist Eleanor Clift, including Wages, radio personality Erika Falk, J.D. Zahniser, co-author of a book on suffragist Alice Paul, and Rosalyn Terborg-Penn, historian and author of "African American Women in the Struggle for the Vote:…
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Press Club Rewind - 2.25.2013
Press Club Rewind is a weekly review of events at the National Press Club. In this week's edition: Former AIG CEO Maurice R. Greenberg denies any blame for the company's downfall; a first responder to the deadly night club fire in Rhode Island ten years ago lobbies for tax incentives that promote fire safety; a Migrant Workers Rights Organization argues for laws to protect workers in the fair and carnival industry; a panel examines the benefits of crowd sourcing and crowd funding for entrepreneurs; and Surgeon General Regina Benjamin articulates the importance of keeping kids away from…
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Press Club Rewind - 2.18.2013
Press Club Rewind is a weekly review of events at the National Press Club. In this week's edition: MPAA Chair Christopher Dodd speaks at an NPC luncheon event; Israeli special envoy Zalman Shoval expresses displeasure at the U.N.'s handling of Palestinian statehood; Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) delivers the Tea Party's response to the State of the Union address while Senator Amy Jean Klobuchar (D-MN) praises the mechanics of President's speech; and Whole Foods CEO John Mackey calls for "higher leadership" from our politicians.
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NPC Luncheon: Chris Dodd
Regulating content is not the response to violence in films, said Christopher Dodd, chairman and chief executive officer of the Motion Picture Association of America in a Feb. 15, 2013 National Press Club Luncheon speech.
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