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Bob Woodward to receive Press Club’s top honor, Sept. 21 at Fourth Estate Dinner
Bob Woodward, the Washington Post investigative reporter and editor whose work on the Watergate scandal led to the resignation of an American president, has been selected as the 2012 recipient of the Fourth Estate Award, the National Press Club’s most-honored prize. Woodward will receive the award at a gala dinner Friday, Sept. 21. He is the 40th recipient of the Fourth Estate Award, which recognizes a journalist who has made significant contributions to the field through a lifetime of excellence. “We are especially pleased to recognize Bob Woodward this year as it is the 40th anniversary of…
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Interior Secretary Salazar defends Obama energy policy at NPC luncheon
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar defended the Obama administration's energy policy at a National Press Club luncheon April 24, insisting that it has an "all of the above" approach to energy development that is the best way to increase the nation's energy security. Salazar cited the need for oil, gas, nuclear, solar, biofuel, wind, geothermal and other energy sources as necessary to reduce imports and lessen the impact of the kinds of oil-price shocks the country has experienced since the 1970s. In a speech tinged with election-year politics, the former Colorado senator said the administration's…
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Louis Armstrong moves to top of iTunes Jazz after release of Club recording
Louis Armstrong climbed to the top position in the jazz section of iTunes the day after a recording of what is believed to be the music legend's final trumpet performance was released at a National Press Club news conference on April 27. Armstrong, widely acclaimed as the best trumpet player of all time, staged his final concert at the Club on Jan. 29, 1971, about five months before his death. After his Club performance in front of 300 journalists and their enthusiastic guests, Armstrong made some public appearances but never sang and played the trumpet as he did that night. The Armstrong…
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Alec Baldwin sticks to script, advocates more arts funding
Actor-activist Alec Baldwin, famously candid and notoriously outspoken, was relatively serious and subdued at his National Press Club luncheon appearance April 16, as he discussed his own cultural growth and stressed the importance of more federal funding for the arts — even in the current struggling economy. Baldwin, Emmy-winning star of the hit NBC sitcom, “30 Rock,” and also of stage and screen, is in Washington this week for Capitol Hill meetings as part of an effort by the advocacy group Americans for the Arts to raise consciousness about the importance of the arts and to increase…
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Prolific author of "No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency" series promotes lighthearted novels
The prolific and popular writer Alexander McCall Smith kept a ballroom audience chuckling and laughing out loud Saturday as he made a case for novels that don’t focus on social problems. McCall Smith is touring the United States promoting and signing “The Limpopo Academy of Private Detection,” the 13th in the series focused on Precious Ramotswe, “the kindest and best detective in Botswana,” as the dust jacket says. He’s also promoting a children’s book: “The Great Cake Mystery: Precious Ramotswe’s Very First Case.” In addition to this series, McCall Smith has written novels in four other…
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Author gets break on Sept. 11 investigation over beer at FBI retirement party
Joshua Meyer, a Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist formerly with the Los Angeles Times, took a rapt National Press Club audience into the classified world of counterterrorism, espionage, and U.S. government attempts to capture the most dangerous man in the world at an April 11 book rap. In "The Hunt for KSM, Inside the Pursuit and Takedown of The Real 911 Mastermind, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed," Meyer details the dogged pursuit of two agents who chased the terrorist from five years before the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks until his 2003 arrest. Mohammed first appeared in the FBI cross hairs after the…
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Rock-and-roll photographer's relationships with stars produced iconic images
Photographer Tom Gundelfinger O’Neal provided a guided tour of the 1960s and 1970s rock and roll scene on April 11, as photo buffs and music fans gathered for a reception and program marking the opening of his month-long photo exhibit at the National Press Club. O’Neal was a young fine arts graduate searching for direction in the late 1960s when he had an “epiphany” at a record store in Carmel, Calif., as he gazed at the Mamas and Papas “Deliver” album cover. "I decided I am going to be a photographer and photograph rock and roll bands,” he said. He did a bit of 1960s-style networking in the…
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Model pact brings harmony to Major League Baseball, says players' union chief
The historic labor agreement signed late last year by Major League Baseball and its union, the Major League Baseball Players Association, is a model for collective bargaining during a time of economic stress, MLBPA Executive Director Michael Weiner said at a National Press Club luncheon April 11. The five-year pact -- a change of pace from the bargaining strife and work stoppages that dominated much of the last century -- guarantees uninterrupted play of the national pastime through the 2016 season. “In times such as these,” Weiner said, “collecive bargaining may be difficult, adversarial and…
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IRS commissioner urges Congress to act swiftly to avoid 'Taxmageddon'
IRS Commissioner Doug Shulman urged lawmakers to address a series of tax cuts that have either expired or are expiring in order to sidestep what some D.C. insiders call “Taxmageddon.” “Unfortunately, Congress has gotten into the habit of passing tax legislation very late,” Shulman said during a luncheon Thursday at the National Press Club. “If Congress can’t act by the end of the year … you could have a real disaster in the filing season.” Left unresolved, Americans could end up paying the federal government nearly $500 billion more in 2013. Items set to expire next year include the Bush era…
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Chopra says technology and spiritual awareness can create ‘global identity’
The most fundamental fact of existence is not the universe nor even space, time or gravity, but that we are of aware of the universe, Deepak Chopra, author or co-author of over 60 books on spirituality and mind-body connections, told a National Press Club luncheon audience Wednesday. “When you come into this world, you come with awareness,” Chopra, a physician, said. Expanding that awareness is the theme of Chopra's latest book, Spiritual Solutions. Expansion of awareness is spirituality, Chopra said. But a baby does not exist by itself, and dialogues – religious, social and historical -…
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