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Bob Woodward accepts 4th Estate Award for lifetime achievement in journalism
Bob Woodward accepted the Fourth Estate Award for lifetime achievement in journalism Friday night, four decades after his investigative reporting on the Watergate scandal disrupted the first event honoring Walter Cronkite. Press Club President Theresa Werner described the scene at the Club’s first Fourth Estate Award honoring CBS Newsman Cronkite in 1973 when reporter after reporter left the celebration as news of the "Saturday night massacre" broke. President Richard Nixon had fired the Watergate special prosecutor and the attorney general and deputy attorney general resigned in protest.…
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Roberts protected Supreme Court perception in `Obamacare' decision, Toobin says
Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts sided with the four liberals in upholding the Obama health care law because he cares about how the court is perceived, Jeffrey Toobin told a National Press Club Book Rap on Sept. 19. Toobin is the senior CNN legal analyst, a staff writer for the New Yorker and author of ``The Oath: The Obama White House and the Supreme Court.'' During his presentation, Toobin poked fun at himself and his errant prediction that the Supreme Court would overturn the law, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. “Certain television pundits can be mislead by oral…
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Opposition to Eisenhower Memorial design voiced at NPC Newsmaker
Two architects voiced their opposition to the design of the proposed memorial to former President Dwight Eisenhower at a National Press Club Newsmaker Sept. 18. Milton W. Grenfell, principal of Grenfell Architecture and vice president of the National Civic Arts Society, and Robert K. Lewis, professor emeritus of architecture at the University of Maryland and architecture columnist for the Washington Post, said they object to the focus on Eisenhower’s youth in the memorial rather than his time as Allied Commander in World War II or a two-term president. The idea by architect Frank Gehry that…
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González, Torres say minorities feel marginalized by the news media
The two writers of a new book said at a National Press Club Book and Author event Sept. 17 that minorities including Hispanics and blacks feel marginalized and their accomplishments have been overlooked by the news media. Juan González and Joseph Torres said their book, "News For All the People: The Epic Story of Race and the American Media,'' arose from their own and other minority group's frustrations with inability of the press to give citizens the information they need. The book is recently published months ago and was on the New York Times Best Seller list. The book covers governmnt and…
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Teamsters President Hoffa says unions caught in 'cultural war'
The 2012 Presidential election represents a "cultural war" between union members and the conservative tea party movement, International Brotherhood of Teamsters President James Hoffa told the National Press Club on Sept. 13. "All of the sudden, there’s this tidal wave of attacks on organized labor," Hoffa said during a luncheon. He cited statewide efforts to introduce "right to work" legislation and limit public employees' ability to collectively bargain. "It's really something to see,'' Hoffa said. ``I’ve been around for a while and I’ve never seen it. We really are fighting back.” Hoffa…
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FRCs Perkins says we're accountable to higher authority than public opinion
Value issues will be salient at the polls in the November election, Family Research Council President Tony Perkins told a National Press Club audience Sept. 12. “The sanctity of life, the sacredness of marriage, the boundaries of sexual expression and the exercise of religious freedom” are issues that matter and “rank as fundamental,” Perkins said. He said he would advocate these values with civility and compassion. “We are more committed to advancing faith, family and freedom than ever before,” Perkins said. Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is doing a good job, he said, talking…
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Financial crisis costs more than $12.8 trillion, says Better Markets in report at NPC
Financial watchdog Better Markets Inc. announced the release of a report Sept. 12 at the National Press Club that estimated the cost of the 2008-2009 financial crisis to be over $12.8 trillion. “It is remarkable…that no one has looked at the damage caused comprehensively'' until now, Better Markets Chief Executive Officer Dennis Kelleher told reporters at the Newsmaker event. Formed as a non-profit organization in 2010 to push for regulation of Wall Street on Capitol Hill, Better Markets timed the release of its report on the financial crisis to coincide with the fourth anniversary of the…
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People with disabilities can be election 'difference-maker,' Obama representative says
President Obama is poised to ensure in a second term that people with disabilities have an even better and more secure future, Jonathan Young, chairman of the National Council on Disability Policy, said at a September 11 National Press Club Newsmaker. "I am here today because the voice and vote of people with disabilities matter in this election," Young said. "It is time for the disability community to flex its muscles and be the difference-maker it can be." Young spoke as a representative of Obama. The Romney campaign declined to send a representative to speak on the subject. Young, a…
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'You’re gonna love' RG III, Redskins’ GM Allen promises, as season kicks off
Forty-eight hours before the Washington Redskins' season kickoff in New Orleans on Sunday, general manager Bruce Allen declined to predict how many games the team would win this year at a National Press Club luncheon Sept. 7. But he was quick to promise that Redskin fans will be captivated by the team’s heralded new quarterback, Robert Griffin III. “This is a quarterback you’re gonna love,” Allen said, extolling the team’s No. 1 draft pick from Baylor University who last fall won the Heisman Trophy as the nation’s outstanding collegiate player. Fans will embrace him not only as a player, “…
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Actress-activist Kathleen Turner criticizes GOP on family-planning policy
If Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney is elected, it would spell disaster for Planned Parenthood, actress-activist Kathleen Turner told a predominantly female National Press Club luncheon audience Sept. 6. Turner, the still-sultry and throaty-voiced star of stage and screen and an impassioned advocate for women’s reproductive rights, took time from her current show at a local theater to articulate her election-year concerns about conservative and far-right politicians seeking to overturn and cut back hard-won choice rights. She noted that some 80 years after it was founded by…
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