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1913-era signs, hors’ d’oeuvres, commentary abound as Club celebrates suffrage march centennial
It was 1913 again in the National Press Club Ballroom Feb. 28. At a gala Club reception commemorating the 1913 march in Washington that led to voting rights for women, arriving guests were greeted at the door by female “suffragists” dressed in period costumes, sporting banners and carrying signs with messages such as “Democracy Should Begin At Home.” The women did not smile when posing for photos, clearly paying homage to their forebears, for whom the quest for the vote was a solemn pursuit. Once inside, the overflow crowd munched on hors d’oeuvres introduced during the era of the suffrage…
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U.S. GDP will grow If trade deficit drops, says economist Dean Baker
Washington economist Dean Baker told a National Press Club Newsmaker press conference audience Feb. 28 that U.S. trade deficit reductions deserve far more attention as a strategy for domestic economic growth. Baker, co-director and co-founder of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, said the U.S. economy has lost $8 trillion in wealth from the economic downturn beginning at the end of the Bush administration. "The idea that job creators are going to create jobs if we make them happy is not going to happen," Baker said. Employers are going to hire, he continued, only if they have…
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Bill Moyers and family describe how drug addiction ravaged their lives
“Stunning shock,” “exhausted” and “no more.” Those were some of the words noted broadcast journalist Bill Moyers and his wife Judith used to describe the ravaging effects of drug addiction on a family In an informative and emotional discussion before a large National Press Club audience in the Club Ballroom Feb. 27. Also speaking was their formerly addicted son, William C. Moyers, author of a new book on his addiction, “Now What?” He that his addiction to cocaine “filled a hole in his soul,” and was an escape from living with the fact he was not perfect. Although had been through rehab and…
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Two former Israeli, Palestinian enemies tell how they became 'brothers' for peace
Two men who fought on opposite sides of the Israel-Palestinian conflict described at a Feb. 25 National Press Club Newsmaker press conference how, after each lost a daughter in the fighting, they decided to put down their arms and work for peace. Bassam Aramin, the former Palestinian combatant, and Rami Elhanan, a former Israeli soldier, criticized what they said is the failure by the American press to cover Israeli-Palestinian news -- particularly positive news such as their transformation from warriors to peacemakers. Arami spent seven years in Israeli prisons for tossing stones and hand…
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Former AIG CEO sues U.S. for 'nationalizing' company
Maurice R. Greenberg, chief executive officer of American International Group (AIG) from 1967 to 2005, told a Feb. 21 National Press Club Newsmaker audience that the company had been nationalized three times -- by Iran, Pakistan and the United States -- but only compensated by Iran and Pakistan. "That's the reason we're suing," Greenberg said, referring to the terms of the AIG bailout during the 2008 financial crisis and his suit of the U.S. government for damages. He now leads C.V. Starr & Co., the largest shareholder of AIG stock. According to Greenberg, former Treasury Secretary Henry…
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Motion Picture executive stops short of endorsing regulating violence at NPC Luncheon
Regulating content is not the response to violence in films, said Christopher Dodd, chairman and chief executive officer of the Motion Picture Association of America in a Feb. 15 National Press Club Luncheon speech. Dodd stopped short of agreeing to limit gun violence in movies even as he recalled driving through Newtown, Conn., the night before the shooting tragedy. “I care deeply about the subject and will be working with the [Obama] administration to provide assistance,” he said. But “when you try to regulate content it’s a very slippery choice.” Focusing on mental health problems with “…
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Israeli envoy declares 2013 'year of reckoning' to stop nuclear Iran
Salman Shoval, Israeli special envoy to the United States and Europe, told a Feb. 13 National Press Club Newsmaker event that 2013 will be "the year of reckoning" when Iran's nuclear ambitions must be stopped. Iran will be the most important topic between Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu and President Barack Obama during Obama's forthcoming visit to Israel, followed by the Israeli-Palestinian peace process and the economy, Shoval said. The issue is not when Iran will build a bomb, but when they will have enough enriched fissionable material to quickly prepare a bomb, he said. "And they are…
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House Budget leaders offer sequester, fiscal cliff strategies
House Budget Committee Ranking Member Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., and Vice Chairman Tom Price, R-Ga., agreed that the recurring fiscal cliffs and sequestration are bad for the nation but disagreed on ways to stop them. Price opened a unique bipartisan leaders' Feb. National Press Club Newsmakers event decrying the "magnitude" of the $16 trillion deficit -- "too many zeros." An orthopedic surgeon, Price said that "if you didn't make the right diagnosis, the patient only got better by dumb luck." "We have a spending debt crisis, not a revenue crisis," Price said. Price wants Congress to address…
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Business can succeed and help communities, Whole Foods CEO John Mackey says
Businesses can be successful while also benefiting customers, employees and their community by consciously looking for ways to serve, John Mackey, co-founder and CEO of Whole Foods told a National Press Club audience Tuesday. Mackey and co-author Raj Sisodia, said they are hoping to persuade other business leaders of the value of conscious capitalism in their book, “Conscious Capitalism: Liberating the Heroic Spirit of Business." Past NPC president Alan Bjerga, who introduced the program, noted that that Mackey has devoted his entire life to selling organic and natural foods and is credited…
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Obama must save the nation's public lands from excessive energy demands, former Interior Secretary Babbitt says
Former Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt called for the federal government to give equal attention to protecting America's public lands when it considers the oil and gas industry's requests to develop energy resources. President Obama should "embrace a simple, powerful, and practical principle that will, once again, place the conservation of America's lands on equal ground with energy development," Babbitt said at a Feb. 5 Newsmaker press conference at the National Press Club. While Babbitt praised some of Obama's energy and environmental policies on vehicle fuel efficiency standards,…
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