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Still time to reserve for dinner with Newshour's Jim Lehrer, tomorrow, 6 p.m.
A few seats still remain for the next "Legends of Broadcasting" dinner tomorrow evening, March 29, featuring National Press Club Fourth Estate winner Jim Lehrer, the former executive editor and anchor of the "PBS Newshour." The event, sponsored by the Club's Broadcast Committee in the Winner's Room, is strictly limited to 30 people. Price is $55 and includes a steak or fish dinner. A cash bar will be available at 6 p.m., with introductions and dinner at 6:45 p.m. To register, click here. Lehrer will take Q&A in an intimate setting. The evening is scheduled to conclude at 8:30 p.m..
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International reporting changed has changed; current, past AP correspondents to tell how tomorrow, 6:30 p.m.
The foreign reporting environment has changed remarkably in recent years. A panel of current and former Associated Press correspendents will describe how at an event sponsored by the National Press Club's International Correspondents Committee tomorrow, March 29, from 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. in the Holeman Lounge. Tickets for the event are free for Club members and $10 for the general public. For tickets, click here. Headlining the panel will be Giovanna Dell'Orto, a former AP newswoman and current associate professor of journalism at the University of Minnesota, who has written a new book, "AP…
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Ex-ambassador to address Club's American Legion Post 20, April 21
Veteran U.S. diplomat Joseph DeTrani will discuss national security and foreign policy challenges facing President Obama's successor at a luncheon address on Thursday, April 21, to National Press Club's American Legion Post 20. All Club members are welcome to attend the speaker portions of Post 20 meetings beginning at noon in the McClendon Room. DeTrani is president of the newly established Daniel Morgan Academy, a D.C. graduate school serving the national security community. He is a former president of the Intelligence and National Security Alliance and a former director of the National…
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Jazz Night, April 21, headlines April events at Reliable Source
It almost April! And, as usual, the new month will bring a fun round of events at the Club's Reliable Source restaurant. Topping the calendar will be a return, by popular demand, of New Orleans Jazz and dinner night on Thursday, April 21. National Press Club members and guests are invited to hear the acclaimed U Street Collective Jazz group that evening, with the music starting at 6:30 p.m. in the Truman Lounge. Want to get an early start on dinner? Servings of a special, New Orleans-themed menu will start at 5:30 p.m. (Stay tuned for a listing of menu items.) A special drink menu also will…
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The Occupation of Kuwait
Shaikh Ali Khalifa Al-Sabah is one of the exiled leaders of Kuwait, a country which is currently occupied by Iraq. He spoke on the occupation and his continuing management of Kuwait's world financial affairs.
Type: Media
Latin America journalists tell how governments, cartels block their investigative stories
A mayor’s chauffer who was also a straw man for illicit arms deals . . . A corrupt government investigating itself . . . A military that also traffics in weapons with a drug cartel . . . All great subjects for stories that could serve to hold officials accountable and inform a public struggling toward more democratic societies. But first they’d have to see the light of day. And that’s the monumental problem facing three Latin American journalists who, at a March 23 event at the National Press Club, described the daunting task they face in finding outlets – even their own – that will air or…
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IRS Commissioner Koskinen emphasizes agency’s dedication to taxpayers at luncheon
It’s no secret that most Americans despise the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), its commissioner, John Koskinen, acknowledged in a National Press Club luncheon speech March 24 within days of the nation's April 18 income tax filing deadline. But taxes are the prices citizens pay for a civilized society, Koskinen reminded, quoting legendary former Supreme Court justice Oliver Wendell Holmes. “A recent poll said that 12 percent of people like Vladimir Putin better than they like the IRS,” he said. “But don’t look for me on CNN riding a horse without a shirt on,” he joked, in a reference to a…
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At tonight's Taco Night, and weekday nights, Reliable Source offers a specialty cocktail
Just in time for the Club's weekly Friday night Taco Night, the Reliable Source restaurant has begun mixing and shaking up some new specialty cocktails. Tonight and every weekday the bar will feature one signature cocktail along with other classics like the Manhattan, Moscow Mule and Old Fashioned. With tonight's specialty, you can celebrate the cherry blossoms, now in peak bloom, by sipping on a Cherry Blossom Margarita while noshing on spicy beef tacos with your friends and colleagues.
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A few tickets left for Tuesday's dinner with Newshour's Jim Lehrer
Only a few seats remain for the "Legends of Broadcasting" dinner next Tuesday, March 29, with National Press Club Fourth Estate winner Jim Lehrer, the former executive editor and anchor of the PBS Newshour. Price of the event, strictly limited to 30 people, is $55 and includes a steak or fish dinner. A cash bar will be available at 6 p.m. with introductions and dinner at 6:45. To register, click here. Lehrer will take Q&A in an intimate setting and the evening is scheduled to conclude at 8:30.
Type: News
CNN's Peter Bergen introduces new book on homegrown terrorists, 6:30 p.m., April 1
CNN security analyst and New America Vice President Peter Bergen plans to discuss his new book," United States of Jihad: Investigating America's Homegrown Terrorists," at a National Press Club Book Rap at 6:30 p.m. on Friday, April 1. Tickets are $5 for Club members; $10 public. This event is a fundraiser for the nonprofit NPC Journalism Institute. Tickets can be purchased online by clicking here. Books can be purchased online at the same time as tickets or at the event. No outside books or memorabilia are permitted. In his previous books, including "Manhunt, Holy War, Inc.," and "The Longest…
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