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New Club President Edney vows to protect press freedoms in inaugural address
The National Press Club will continue to defend journalism from the dangers of a government that wants to dictate the news, Club President Andrea Edney told approximately 220 friends, family and colleagues at the Feb. 10 gala in the Club ballroom celebrating her inauguration. “We are going to keep fighting to protect press freedoms in this country and throughout the world, because at the National Press Club, that’s just what we do,” said Edney, a Bloomberg News editor. Edney officially took office Jan. 19. Less than two hours later, she was holding her first press conference to call for the…
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Admiral tells NPC American Legion Post 20 Coast Guard needs more money
Rear Admiral Peter Gautier, director of governmental and public affairs for the U.S. Coast Guard, told a meeting of National Press Club American Legion Post 20 on Jan. 30 that the move from the Department of Transportation to the Department of Homeland Security in 2003 gave his branch of the service a much-needed boost in funding but the Coast Guard still faces budgetary challenges. Gautier, a 1987 graduate of the Coast Guard Academy, said constraints imposed on all of the services by a sequestration due to the inability of Congress to adopt new defense budgets has been "disrupting progress"…
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Press Club celebrates Milne's birthday with special Kids Night, visit from Winnie the Pooh
National Press Club members and their children enjoyed food, cake and an appearance by Winnie the Pooh at the Reliable Source to celebrate author A. A. Milne’s birthday on Jan. 18. The restaurant hosted a Kids Night honoring Pooh Bear with a buffet fit for the Hundred Acre Wood. Memorable Pooh and friends cartoons were displayed on the Reliable Source's two plasma screens. Alan Alexander Milne was born Jan. 18, 1882, in London. He died Jan. 31, 1956, in Sussex, England.
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Lawyer, playwright sheds light on Native-American rights at Headliners Newsmaker
The first draft of Mary Kathryn Nagle’s new play “Sovereignty", premiering Jan. 24 at Arena Stage, was 190 pages. The play, which is part of the Women’s Voices Theater Festival, is so packed with facts and the history of Nagle’s prominent Cherokee family that audience members may leave looking dizzy, admitted the lawyer and playwright at a National Press Club Headliners Newsmaker on Jan. 23. In one of his questions as moderator, Thomas Burr, past Club president and Salt Lake Tribune D.C. bureau chief, noted that many have probably heard of the mid-19th century Trail of Tears but know little…
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NPC board votes to rescind Charlie Rose's Fourth Estate Lifetime Achievement Award
The National Press Club Board of Governors voted unanimously at its Dec. 18 meeting to rescind its Fourth Estate Lifetime Achievement Award presented to Charlie Rose in 2014 and the accompanying honorary Club membership. Allegations about Rose’s conduct, acknowledged in part by him, led three news organizations to sever ties with him. The board concluded such conduct does not represent the values of the Club nor the criteria for the award, which goes to a journalist who “has achieved distinction for a lifetime of contributions to American journalism.” The board reaffirmed the commitment of…
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Isaacson urges audience to adopt Leonardo da Vinci’s curiosity and observation
Walter Isaacson, biographer of Benjamin Franklin, Albert Einstein, Steve Jobs and Leonardo da Vinci, urged a National Press Club audience on Monday to cultivate curiosity and observation as da Vinci did, saying the example changed and enriched the author’s own life. Speaking at a Dec. 18 Headliners Breakfast book event about his biography of da Vinci, Isaacson pulled out his small, red notebook, the same size as some used by the painter, to encourage the audience to follow suit. “It’s good for an enriching life to just keep that little notebook...catch those things we see every day from the…
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Democratic strategist Brazile calls Trump 'vulgar,' takes her party politicians to task
Democratic strategist Donna Brazile told a National Press Club audience Tuesday that President Donald Trump was “vulgar” in his remark about a woman senator, and added she wouldn't object to re-litigating the sexual behavioral accusations against Bill Clinton and Clarence Thomas. The National Press Club Headliners Book Rap included a conversation with Club President Jeff Ballou, who quickly asked Brazile about Trump’s remark that, in the past, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) “would do anything” to get campaign contributions from him. Some interpreted Trump’s remark as sexually suggestive. “He’…
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Agriculture Secretary Perdue says he wants to make USDA the `Amazon of the federal government'
In his first visit to the National Press Club as Secretary of Agriculture, Sonny Perdue on Tuesday discussed the importance of encouraging American farmers and inspiring the next generation of agricultural leaders by boosting efficiency and customer focus. “Every single day, every single American, every single visitor is directly and tangibly affected by the work of our department,” Perdue said at a National Press Club Headliners Luncheon on Dec. 12. “The USDA matters.” Perdue, who was sworn in as the 31st Secretary of Agriculture earlier this year, gave his insights on a range of subjects,…
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Andrea Snyder Edney elected 111th National Press Club president
Andrea Snyder Edney, an editor at Bloomberg News, was elected the 111th president of the National Press Club on Dec. 8, promising that the Club would help “strengthen our journalism community” to respond to an “unprecedented time” in the profession. Edney, who ran unopposed for the office, won one of several Club officer and board positions that were decided in the Club election, which ran from Nov. 27 through Dec. 8. The races drew a total of 246 online and 36 in-person votes for positions open to journalist members and 180 online and 10 in-person votes for a communicator position. “This is…
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California AG: Republicans will have full responsibility for any government shutdown
California Attorney General Xavier Becerra (D) warned that congressional Republicans will have no one to blame but themselves if the federal government shuts down later this week. At a Wednesday Newsmaker press conference at the National Press Club, Becerra, who was appointed attorney general earlier this year, said it is up to Republicans to govern effectively given they have full control of Congress. President Donald Trump has previously suggested that Democrats would be at fault for a shutdown as they want to legislation to protect undocumented immigrants shielded under the Deferred Action…
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