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Fall general membership meeting at 9 a.m. breakfast, Friday, Oct. 2
The National Press Club will hold its next general membership meeting, Friday, Oct. 2 starting at 9 a.m. with a light breakfast. The business portion of the meeting will include reports by NPC officers. Members planning to attend are requested to RSVP to [email protected]. Andrea Edney, Secretary
Type: News
Member Maj. John Mark, Jr. Dies
Maj. John Mark Jr., 36, who joined the National Press Club in April, 2014, died suddenly of natural causes on Sept. 4. Maj. Mark, who enjoyed attending NPC luncheons, was serving his third year as a JAG officer at the Pentagon after having served a year in Kuwait. He lived in Arlington. A native of the Woodside section of Queens, N.Y., Maj. Mark was a graduate of Manhattan College and St. John's University School of Law. His father said his son was promoted posthumously from captain to major and that the exact medical cause of his death was not known.
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German Unification
Mr. Lambsdorff, former economics minister, spoke on the reunification of Germany and its effect on economics and NATO membership.
Type: Media
Pick Your Poison - Special Drinks Tonight for GOP Debate Watch
Watch the next Republican presidential nomination debate on the Truman Lounge's plasma screen directly from Reagan Library in California, starting at 6:00 p.m. Here are special food and drinks that will be available. Dinner specials Grilled Shrimp with Baby Spinach salad and Mascarpone Vinaigrette $20 Grilled BBQ Angus flat iron Steak with Bi-Color Potato Gratin and Sauté Tarragon Green Beans $25 Lemon Grilled Swordfish with Warm Orzo Salad and Bell Pepper Tapenade $20 Drink specials to complement your dinner: Rusty Nails…
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Country Singer Carmel Helene at Fourth Estate Thursday, Sept. 17
Singer, songwriter Carmel Helene brings her unique brand of country music to the National Press Club in the Fourth Estate restaurant on Thursday, Sept. 17. This is a ticketed event. Click here for reservations where members receive a discount. For $25 members can get a burger, a beer and a great show. If members want different food they may receive a $17 food credit to apply toward any menu items. The event begins at 7 p.m. and Carmel will begin playing about 8 p.m. She will play for about 45 minutes and will perform her new single “One Foot Out the Door.” This is a great opportunity to…
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Club Trip to Fredericksburg Battlefields
Some 30 NPC members and their guests enjoyed a fascinating tour Saturday, Sept. 12, of the Civil War battleground in and around Fredericksburg, Va., as part of the Club's decades-long partnership with the Civil War Trust and National Park Service (NPS). NPS historian Frank O'Reilly brought to life the bloody three-day struggle in December, 1862, that destroyed the small railroad town on the Rappahannock River 50 miles south of Washington, a battle that broke new ground in military tactics, cost the Union army staggering loses, prevented a quick northern victory and gave the Confederacy an…
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Build Your Speaking Skills With Toastmasters at the National Press Club
Would you like to enhance your communication effectiveness and take your journalistic skills to greater heights? Get rid of those “uhms” and “ahs”? Tame your nerves when you speak in front of people? If so, consider joining the National Press Toastmasters Club. For less than the cost of three weekly cups of coffee, the Toastmasters program can help you enhance your public speaking presence and prepare you for any occasion you find yourself in front of an audience of any size. Toastmasters has been at the National Press Club for 31 years. We meet on the 13th floor at 7 p.m. on the second and…
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How To Get On TV and Radio Thursday, Sept 17
Television and radio appearances can broaden the reach of a print story, and advance the careers of the reporters who wrote them. But if your publication doesn't have a bevy of publicists to line up such appearances, it falls to you. It can be difficult to navigate such terrain. On Thursday, Sept 17, from 6-8 p.m. in the Murrow Room, The National Press Club Journalism Institute's Professional Development Committee is offering a primer designed to explain how to get the attention of bookers as a subject matter expert, and stay on their list. The committee is also working on a follow-up panel…
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Catholic Charities USA President to address Pope Francis’ US trip and raising awareness of American poverty Thursday Sept. 17
CEO of Catholic Charities USA (CCUSA) Sister Donna Markham, OP, Ph.D., will deliver remarks at a Newsmaker news conference on Thursday, Sept. 17 at 10 a.m. in the Zenger Room -- discussing Pope Francis’ first trip to the U.S. and how it aligns with CCUSA’s commitment to shine a light on poverty in America. Bringing greater attention to helping the nation’s poor is part of CCUSA’s long standing mission to support all people in need. One in seven Americans today lives in poverty -- about 45 million people in the country. Often one misfortune or one missed paycheck can change an individual or…
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Jindal on Trump: "He may be Hillary Clinton's only hope"
In calculated stinging remarks, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal Thursday characterized fellow GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump as "dangerous ... a narcissist ... an egomaniac madman" though at his core he is "insecure and weak." "Donald Trump is for Donald Trump," Jindal told a news conference at the National Press Club. It was almost certainly the harshest criticism of Trump yet made by members of the vast array of Republican presidential candidates. "If we nominate him, he will self-destruct in a massive way in a general election,"Jindal said. "He may be Hillary Clinton's only hope." "He…
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