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Sinise calls helping veterans 'most rewarding mission'
Actor Gary Sinise reaffirmed his commitment to military families and veterans at a National Press Club Speakers breakfast event June 16 and called helping them "the most rewarding mission" he's ever had. Sinise - Oscar-nominated for his role as the Vietnam-era commanding officer, Lt. Dan, in 1995's Forrest Gump - is perhaps most familiar to audiences for his nine-year starring role on CSI: NY. He was in Washington to receive the America Leadership award from the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) Education Foundation. "We have become aware of the startling shortfalls in the care"…
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Documentary maker lauds women's role in the Arab Spring
Gini Reticker executive director of a documentary, “The Trials of Spring," told a National Press Club audience June 10 that the film shows three Egyptian women fighting for freedom and social justice during the Arab Spring. In a discussion following the film's trailer and five accompanying digital films of North African, Arabian Gulf and Egyptian women, Reticker explained, “Women in the region are at the forefront of progressive change. They are tortured and targeted by violent extremists, but they are not invited to the table to talk about violent extremism.” She cited a petition on her film…
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Actor tells Press Club event: Rohingya camps like 'Polish ghetto under the Nazis'
Oscar-nominated actor Matt Dillon described harrowing scenes in Myanmar's western Rakhine state at a NPC Speakers press conference at the National Press Club on June 12, telling the crowd that during his visit to the Rohingya refugee camps, he encountered no non-governmental organizations and, on one occasion, was told to turn off his camera and leave. Dillon, who is currently starring in the Fox series "Wayward Pines," traveled to Myanmar six weeks ago after hearing about the persecuted and stateless Muslim minority group from activist Thun Khin, who is himself a Rohingya. As a member of…
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Kalb Report: Obama White House hostile to news media -– but Lincoln was worse
The Obama administration has had a “chilling effect” on a free press and on the work of White House reporters, three senior White House correspondents told host Marvin Kalb on the latest edition of “The Kalb Report” June 1. “This administration has undertaken more criminal prosecutions because of press leaks than every other administration in the history of the country put together,” said USA Today Washington Bureau Chief Susan Page. But looking historically, if one wants to talk about the chilling effect an administration had on newspapers, the Lincoln administration was far more radical,…
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Greenspan says he was wrong to think rationality would prevail in the economy
Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan told a National Press Club Book Rap Nov 6 that his new book, "The Map and the Territory: Risk, Human Nature, and the Future of Forecasting," is a detective story. Greenspan said that he wanted to discover “step-by-step” how the crisis happened. He started out by believing human rationality would prevail. He began his examination by asking whether this was true. “I gradually proved to myself that it was wrong,” Greenspan said. “It is an interesting experience to look yourself in the mirror and say you are wrong.” Everyone knew that there was a…
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Reporters recollect shock, horror of covering Kennedy assassination
Where were you when John F. Kennedy was shot? Many are remembering because Nov. 22 will mark the 50th anniversary of JFK’s death. Reporters who covered the 1963 assassination in Texas shared their experiences at the Club Nov. 4. “[The Kennedy visit] was the biggest story of the year,” said CBS News senior correspondent Bob Schieffer, who was a cub reporter on the Fort Worth Star Telegram at the time. Presidential travel was rare, he said, indicating the Kennedys were there to raise money for the next election. “There was a big reception in Dallas,” noted PBS News Hour anchor Jim Lehrer, who…
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Actress-activist Goldie Hawn speaks up about 'MindUP'
Goldie Hawn came to the National Press Club to speak up about MindUP, a curriculum and teaching model for primary school children, at a Nov. 5 Club Luncheon. It’s a cause that’s important to her, and she wants to spread the word about it, she said. The Oscar, Emmy and Golden Globe-winning actress, fit, blond and still glamorous at 67, said she was “traumatized” by the events of 2001. “I just sat there, for days, watching it over and over on television, wondering how something so terrible could happen in our country. This was not the kind of world I grew up in. But I realized just how much…
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Interior Secretary Sally Jewell calls on Congress to pass budget, fund public lands
Congress must pass a budget that funds successful programs that protect public lands, Interior Secretary Sally Jewell told a National Press Club audience Thursday, Oct. 31. President Obama "believes we have a moral obligation to the next generation to leave the land better than we found it,” Jewell said. Congress should also pass "dozens of locally supported bills introduced by both Republicans and Democrats, to protect the places that Americans love the most.” The 16-day "absurd, wasteful" government shutdown earlier this month and a 5% budget cut earlier this year have taken a toll on the…
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Human rights advocate, ex-Army officer point to Iraqi government involvement in Ashraf massacre
A human rights advocate and former Army officer said they have evidence that the Iraqi government backed a raid that killed 52 unarmed refugees at Iraq's Camp Ashraf. The revelations came at a National Press Club Newsmaker on Wednesday, Oct. 30 in a report presented by Jared Genser, a human rights lawyer who heads Perseus Strategies, and former Col. Thomas Cantwell, as Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki visited Washington. The report concludes that Maliki “is responsible for crimes against humanity," Genser said. The massacre occurred on the morning of Sept. 1 when 120 men armed with AK-…
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Panel outlines photographers' First Amendment rights
Photo journalists are fully protected by the First Amendment, but their rights are not absolute, photographers, police and lawyers explained Oct. 23 at a National Press Club panel sponsored by the Club's Photography Committee and the National Press Photographers Association as party of Free Speech Week. "Photography is not a crime," moderator Mickey H. Osterreicher, general counsel for the National Press Photographers Association, said. "Photography is a First Amendment right" attorney Robert Corn-Revere, a partner with the law firm, Davis Wright Tremaine, said. Corn-Revere, who specializes…
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