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Latvian president covers transatlantic waterfront at Luncheon
President Raimonds Vejonis of Latvia, noting Russian actions, told an Oct. 2 Luncheon audience that Latvia is thankful for the U.S.role in the Baltic states. Vejonis said the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) “has been at the heart of our transatlantic bond since the end of the Second World War” and “has served well in ensuring peace and security.” But he noted that “Russia’s readiness to change borders by force and increasing its military presence on our borders has undermined European security.” The key element in NATO’S success is deterrence, and Latvia is thankful for “the U.S.…
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States should do more, Washington less, Utah Gov. Herbert says at Oct. 2 Club luncheon
States and the federal government need to reset the balance of power by allowing states to do more and Washington to do less, Gov. Gary Herbert, chair of the National Governors Association, told a National Press Club luncheon audience on Oct. 2. The federal government does too much because the American people are demanding it, Herbert said. “I think in many cases, particularly here in this city in Washington, it is because we the people are asking them to do more than the Constitution ever understood them to do,” he said. “We are asking for Washington to do too many things for too many people…
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Author researches first ladies’ importance to White House
First ladies are an important asset to modern White House communications strategies, Lauren Wright told a National Press Club Book Rap May 12, as she promoted her new book, "Presidential Spouses and White House Communications Strategy Today." “There is no doubt that presidential spouses are media superstars,” Wright said, noting that Michelle Obama’s 2012 convention speech had more views than any of the speeches at the Republican National Convention. The book is an academic, political-science study so Wright only went back as far 1992, when all of the speeches made by the first ladies started…
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Rights advocates raise alarm at over voter suppression
The nation faces an unprecedented threat to voter turnout in this fall’s elections, according to civil rights advocates speaking at a Newsmaker on Friday. “This is the first presidential election cycle to be conducted without the full protection of the Voting Rights Act of 1965,” said Kristen Clarke, president of the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. “The heart of it is pre-clearance for voting rights changes in states with a long history of voter suppression.” She and others allege that the Supreme Court’s 2013 5-4 decision in Shelby County v. Holder that voided the law has made…
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Panel: Journalists must make an effort to include female sources in coverage
Before moderating the “Women as Sources, Women in Journalism” panel at the National Press Club Thursday evening, Bloomberg News White House correspondent Angela Greiling Keane made a point to include a female source in a story she filed. If she hadn’t, “I couldn’t live with myself,” the former NPC President said with a laugh. While making sure to feature a woman’s voice in an article is a simple act, it’s one that the panelists said traditional media often don’t consider. Kate McCarthy, director of the Women's Media Center's SheSource, noted that even in stories about issues mostly…
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Muslim scholar touts Marrakesh Declaration on rights of religious minorities in bid to win war of ideas against ISIS
The Marrakesh Declaration on the Rights of Religious Minorities in Predominantly Muslim Majority Communities will help the liberal interpretation of Islam prevail in the “market of ideas” amid increasing violence in the Middle East led by the Islamic State, Cardinal Theodore McCarrick and Muslim scholar Aziza al Hibri said Tueday at the National Press Club. McCarrick, the former Archbishop of Washington, and al-Hibri, the first female Muslim professor to achieve tenure at a U.S. law school and a former University of Richmond law professor, are among the more than 250 Muslim and non-Muslim…
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Lawmakers: Members of Congress must change the campaign finance culture
Two lawmakers -- a Republican and a Democrat -- said Monday that Congress should pass of a bill that would prohibit members of Congress or candidates from personally soliciting money for their campaigns. The so-called Stop Act would leave fund-raising to a candidate's campaign financial apparatus. Both Rep. David Jolly, R-Fla., and Rep. Rick Nolan, D-Minn., acknowledged at a National Press Club Newsmaker on Monday that they face a tough road ahead in winning passage. “We all know it takes money to run for office,” said Club President Thomas Burr, who presided. As of now, the proposal has…
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Historian David McCullough says Trump's rise baffles him
Looking through the lens of his long view of American history, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David McCullough told host Marvin Kalb Thursday that Donald Trump’s rise to be the presumptive Republican nominee baffles him. “How does the party of Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt and Dwight Eisenhower even consider nominating a man who has risen to his prominence and wealth by television shows and owning gambling casinos?” he replied to Kalb’s question asking how the American political experiment could produce Trump. Trump, McCullough said, has never served his country in any way – ever…
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Owls hear Mark Russell's scathing take on this year's election
The National Press Club's Silver Owls crowded into the ballroom May 3 to hear political satirist Mark’s Russell’s scathing take on this year’s presidential election. With the crowd made up mostly of Owls, who have been members for more than 25 years, Russell called the gathering “The post-White House Correspondents Dinner for those who were in bed by 10 p.m. last Saturday night.” Russell, who has been a mainstay of political satire in Washington since the early 1960s, was presented with an honorary Club membership as a thank you for all he has done to entertain members at presidential…
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Model law enforcement program offers ways to work with mentally ill suspected offenders
Law enforcement personnel in Fairfax County, Va., are receiving specialized training giving them tools to defuse potentially violent situations involving mentally ill citizens, before force becomes necessary, county law enforcement leaders told a Newsmaker at the National Press Club on Thursday. The “Diversion First” program, which county officials see as a national model, is designed to change the way that officers on the street and deputies in the jail interact with suspected offenders who have mental health and emotional issues. “We call it de-escalation through tactical procedures,” said…
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