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Air Force Chief Sees Continuing Flat Defense Budgets
Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Norton Schwartz said his service must take a "selective and incremental" approach to modernizing in a world of uncertain future threats and defense budgets that will continue to flatten. He spoke at an Oct. 12 luncheon. He foresaw stop gaps where necessary and next generation systems where possible. The Air Force, he said, will have to be "flexible across a wide range of contingencies." The Air Force faces a need to reduce overhead by $28 billion as its part in an overall Department of Defense budget reduction. Efficiencies, he said, must largely come from planes…
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Financial Services Reforms Help, Bank of America CEO Says
The bevy of international and U.S reforms growing out of the recent worldwide financial crisis, once implemented, “should contribute to the future stability of the financial services industry,” said the president and CEO of the nation’s largest bank (in assets) at a Club Luncheon Oct. 8. In endorsing what he called the “unprecedented” surge of rulemaking, Bryan T. Moynihan said that “without doubt, the U.S. financial services system needs to change.” He spoke at the outset of the Oct. 8-10 annual meeting of the International Monetary Fund.in Washington. Moynihan predicted that BOA and other…
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FDA Commissioner Calls for More, Better Regulatory Science
Regulatory science -- the bridge between scientific developments and consumer products -- is"not as robust as it needs to be" in the U.S., the head of the Food and Drug Administartion said at a luncheon Oct. 6. Margaret Hamburg said regulatory science has been "under appreciated and under funded," but she is "guardedly optimistic" that funding will increase in the 2011 budget. The FDA commissioner issued awhite paper, "Advancing Regulatory Science for Public Health," at the luncheon. "I hope the report will persuade you that regulatory science really matters, and the time to act is now," she…
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USS Cole Commander to reveal full story of deadly Al Qaeda attack at June 28 book rap
USS Cole Commander Kirk Lippold, a decorated former commanding officer of the USS Cole, is scheduled to speak on Thursday, June 28, about the harrowing details of the deadly Al Qaeda bomb attack on his ship in the port of Aden, Yemen, in 2000. Lippold is the author of "Front Burner: Al Qaeda's attack on the USS Cole," a gripping first-person narrative of the Oct. 12, 2000, attack. It was the deadliest terrorist attack on an American warship in history. He also will discuss the dangerous warning signs that many top leaders in Washington ignored only to be caught flatfooted when Al Qaeda…
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Houston activist urges U.S. to address basic needs in Afghanistan
Joanne Herring, whom Julia Roberts played in the 2007 movie, "Charlie Wilson's War," urged Congress and the nation at a May 10 NPC event to support her crusade to rescue Afghanistan from the Taliban by addressing basic needs. She urges assistance to end the country's vast illiteracy, poverty and other needs. Herring came to the Club directly from Capitol Hill where she had appealed for Congressional support for "winning the peace" by addressing those needs that also include clean water, health care, and better schools. "Even the Taliban would support this," said Herring, founder in 2009 of…
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Book Rap on AP breach of 1945 embargo sparks journalism ethics discussion
Associated Press (AP) correspondent Ed Kennedy broke a military embargo in 1945 to announce the end of war in Europe, an action examined at a National Press Club Book Rap May 9. The Book Rap presented Kennedy's memoir, "Ed Kennedy's War: V-E Day, Censorship and the Associated Press." In May 1945, British and American military leaders invited 17 reporters, including Kennedy, to witness the signing that ended the war with the Germans in Reims, France. This signing, unlike the one on May 8 in Berlin, was not attended by the Russians. The British and Americans military leaders imposed an embargo…
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Speaker on Latin America says U.S. has lost ground
Daniel Linsker, vice president for Control Risks' Global services in South America, said that the U.S. focuses on its domestic issues of immigration and security while Latin Americans want to discuss trade, finance and partnership at a May 10 Newsmaker event. He believes the U.S. has lost a lot of ground in relations with Latin America because of this discrepancy. He said it has serious implications for foreign policy, geopolitical and economic interest in the region as well as potential implications for how U.S. companies do business. Although these generalizations can be made, “One of the…
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Billie Jean King urges more tennis to combat childhood obesity
Tennis legend Billie Jean King urged more tennis to combat American children's obesity at a May 9 club luncheon. King won 12 grand slam singles titles and 16 grand slam doubles titles. She once was ranked the number one tennis player in the world, after defeating tennis great Bobby Riggs in "The Battle of the Sexes" in 1973. She said more than 800,000 Americans are on the courts today but it is urgent to get more children there. King said she was aware that more tennis means less time on the computer and watching television. But she said the nation faces widespread heart and other diseases…
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Rizzo Tells Press Club Baseball Stadium Will Be 'Place to Be'
Washington Nationals General Manager Mike Rizzo offered this tip during a speakers' luncheon on May 4: Buy your tickets now. Nationals Park, he said, is "going to be the place to be and the ticket to have." Corporations and lobbyists should be buying tickets for their clients as well, he said. "If I was a corporation, I'd be having my clients out to the ballpark," he said. "There's not a better place to be." Rizzo said that attendance will boom as the team, currently in first place in the National League's Eastern Division, continues its strong performance. "When we start winning, that's…
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NPC's own 'Mr. Baseball' Paul Dickson hits home run at Book Rap
National Press Club member Paul Dickson spoke about his new book, Bill Veeck: Baseball’s Greatest Maverick, to a very appreciative audience at the Press Club on April 24. Like Veeck, he is doing everything he can with his clothes on to sell the book, Dickson said. This is Dickson's first biography and writing it was very different from other types of books because getting too far into the person can destroy the person, he said. Veeck is a fascinating person and Dickson had to deconstruct him to write about him, he added. Veeck was a master of innovation and a fountain of ideas, some of which…
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