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CVS quits tobacco sales, focuses on improving customers' health, care access
CVS Health CEO Larry J. Merlo touted the company’s decision to forgo $2 billion in annual revenue by ending the sale of tobacco products, a move he said that coincides with other CVS efforts to improve healthcare access and lower costs. “We’re officially tobacco free, one month ahead of schedule, and we’re proud to say we’re the first national pharmacy chain in the country to take this action to support the well-being of our patients and our customers,” Merlo said at a Sept. 19 National Press Club luncheon. The move was made after much consultation. “We weighed both the short term and the…
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New peace group launches at Club Newsmaker
Campaign Nonviolence, a newly formed movement aimed at promoting a culture of peace through the practice of nonviolence, officially launched at a Club Newsmaker Sept. 18. “We are gathered here today, with a profound expression of hope for the president of the future, that we can transform a culture which is so fear-based today, riveted in violence at every level , through direct action and people becoming visible,” said former U.S. Rep. Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio. The organization plans to offer a “different alternative” at a time when “Washington is enmeshed in violence as a singular solution…
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Veterans asked to tell their stories to Library of Congress
Club members who served in the armed forces were invited to record their memories of service as part of the Library of Congress' Veterans History Project. Robert Patrick, project director, extended the invitation Sept. 18 during a meeting of the NPC American Legion Post 20. "Everyone's story becomes part of this project," Patrick said, "those who served in the mess hall and motor pool as well as in combat." Established by Congress in 2000, the project has collected some 93,000 video and audio recordings of veterans' stories from World War I to the present. Veterans and their families also…
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Housing market lags behind recovery, Wells Fargo CEO says
The current economic recovery is the only one since World War II that has not been led by an improving housing market, Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf told a Club luncheon Sept. 17. Speaking just over six years to the day that Lehman Brothers closed its doors, triggering the Great Recession, Stumpf said that student debt and the limited availability of credit partly explain why housing has failed to lead the recovery. “Credit’s not available for every borrower who wants to buy a house, who can afford a house and who wants to make that decision a commitment,” he said. He said mortgage firms can…
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Former TV reporter Marvin Kalb opines on Ukraine at first Legends dinner
The direction the United States is going in supporting Ukraine as a democracy "frightens" Marvin Kalb, the former CBS and NBC diplomatic correspondent told Club members and their guests at the Broadcast Committee's first "Legends of Broadcasting" dinner. Kalb, a former Fourth Estate Award winner who has reported from the former Soviet Union, took a break from preparing a book on developments in Ukraine for the Brookings Institution to speak in the Winners' Room. The event was held on the same day 30 years after Kalb first hosted "Meet the Press." With a Nov. 1 deadline for producing the book…
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Ken Burns promotes new PBS series about the Roosevelts at Club Luncheon
Documentarian Ken Burns returned to the Club Sept. 15 to promote his new PBS series, “The Roosevelts: An Intimate History.” "The Roosevelts" is a seven-part look at Theodore, Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt that is running on PBS stations through Sept. 20. “We are dealing with a century -- 104 years -- an American century – in a place and a time where so much of the modern world was created and these three people are as responsible for that world as anybody that I know,” Burns said. “No other family has touched as many Americans as the Roosevelts.” An honorary Press Club member, Burns…
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Master interviewer Charlie Rose honored with Fourth Estate Award at National Press Club
Charlie Rose, the affable North Carolinian known for his thoughtful, low-key interview style, was awarded the National Press Club’s Fourth Estate Award for a lifetime of achievement. Rose, who accepted the award Saturday, Sept. 13, at a gala dinner, dedicated it to those journalists who “give their lives for the story,” and noted the dramatic courage and sacrifice of American journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff, murdered recently by the Islamic State group. Rose also acknowledged British aid worker David Cawthorne Haines,whose apparent death at the hands of the same group had been…
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More than 500 runners sweat through 5K to raise funds for NPC Journalism Institute
More than 500 people ran and walked through one of the hottest and stickiest mornings of the summer on Sept. 6 in the National Press Club Beat the Deadline 5K. Talessa Bayisa, 34, was the top male finisher, finishing the course in 14:50. The female winner, Barb Fallon-Wallace, finished in 17:15. The fastest Club female was Natalie DiBlasio with a time of 23:03, while former Club President Alan Bjerga was the top male Club runner, completing the race in 20:00. For the second year in a row, CNN fielded the largest media team, bringing 41 people to the race. The fastest media team was Media…
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Why are vaccine-preventable diseases rising? Panel offers reasons at media briefing
A panel of experts on vaccination issues and the producers of an upcoming PBS NOVA documentary on vaccines lent perspectives to the growing trend of opting their children out of immunizations and challenges of communicating with the public on vaccinations at a Sept. 4 National Press Club media briefing. The airing of the documentary, "Vaccines – Calling the Shots," slated for Wednesday, Sept. 10, at 9 p.m. on NOVA PBS, comes at a time when outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases are on the rise. Almost 600 confirmed cases of measles have been reported in the United States to date in 2014…
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Ideological foes Nader, Norquist spar, but sometimes agree at NPC luncheon
Two unlikely colleagues -- consumer advocate Ralph Nader and anti-tax crusader Grover Norquist -- said they agree on many things but continued to disagree over campaign finance and governmental regulation in a joint appearance at a National Press Club luncheon Sept. 4. “We can win on things we agree on,” Nader said. Nader also had sharp criticism of Hillary Rodham Clinton and the Clintons' relationship with Wall Street. “The two parties are one corporate party with two heads,” Nader said. “The Democrats are worse than the Republicans. "The Clintons are now Wall Street. They are corporatists…
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