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DeMint Says "Private Ryan" Inspired "Saving Freedom"
Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., said he was inspired to write a book about saving free enterprise after he saw "Saving Private Ryan." Just as the American Army worked together to save Private Ryan from the Nazis, DeMint said at an NPC book event July 8, “all generations of a free and prosperous American people” need to join together to save freedom from socialism. His book, "Saving Freedom: We Can Stop America’s Slide Into Socialism," was recently published. “Republicans betrayed the trust of the American people” when the Bush administration increased government spending, DeMint said, calling for…
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Longtime Club Member Austin Kiplinger Honored by SPJ
Longtime NPC member Austin Kiplinger has been named a Fellow of the Society by the Society of Professional Journalists. It is the highest honor SPJ bestows on a journalist for extraordinary contributions to the profession. He and two other recipients (the late Stanley Hubbard, founder of Hubbard Broadcasting, and Nelson Poynter, founder of Congressional Quarterly) will be recognized Aug. 29 at the SPJ convention in Indianapolis. SPJ described Kiplinger as "an enthusiastic entrepreneur and journalist who, at age 90, serves as chairman of his family’s booming business, Kiplinger Washington…
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Author Describes Dramatic Struggle over Supreme Court
“Not being a lawyer helped in writing this book,” said Burt Solomon in discussing his book, “FDR vs. the Constitution: The Court-Packing Fight and the Triumph of Democracy” at the Club July 9. It enabled Solomon to do extensive research on both the political and legal aspects of what he described as a “titanic battle over Roosevelt’s attempt to pack the Supreme Court” with six more justices. In the mid-1930’s, the high court, dominated by a 5-4 conservative majority, had struck down a dozen New Deal laws and state legislative attempts to end the Depression and protect the poor. Average age…
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Morris Dees: Congress, Nation Must Guard Against Domestic Terrorism
Key congressional committees should review Pentagon policies on extremist groups to determine if they prevent the U.S. military from “inadvertently training future domestic terrorists,” the chief trial counsel for a civil rights watchdog group told a National Press Club audience July 10. Morris Dees, cofounder of the Southern Poverty Law Center, released a letter he sent to the House and Senate Armed Services and homeland security committees. He called for an investigation into Pentagon rules designed to keep racial extremists from joining and serving in the military where they have access to…
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Club Honors Journalism Excellence in Annual Contest
Small journalism outlets captured prestigious honors alongside some of the biggest names in the industry in the 2009 National Press Club Awards. Reporters Todd Bensman and Guillermo Contreras of the San Antonio Express-News won the Edwin M. Hood Award for Diplomatic Correspondence for a three-part series tracing the trail of high-powered guns smuggled from the United States into Mexico and the mounting body count in Mexico’s drug cartel war. Meanwhile, Juliet Macur of The New York Times won the Ann Cottrell Free Animal Reporting Award, print and online category, for following up on the fate…
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Poll Indicates Ambivalence Toward Health Insurance Reform
As Congress works to meet a summer deadline for producing House and Senate health care reform legislation, Americans are expressing ambivalence, according to a new poll released at a July 15 Newsmaker. The online survey of 3,862 conducted by the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston and Zogby International Inc. shows that 46 percent support a “public option” government-sponsored insurance plan and 44 percent back an expanded government role in health care. The public option, which has been called Medicare for people younger than 65, is a key component of the House health care…
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Envoys Discuss Priorities of Swedish EU Presidency
The Swedish and European Union ambassadors to the U.S., Jonas Hafstrom and former Irish Prime Minister John Bruton, took turns at a July 16 Newsmaker in discussing and answering questions about Sweden's EU presidency, which runs through the end of the year. Hafstrom quoted Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt in saying that the two main priorities which "will dominate our presidency" are managing the global financial crisis and unemployment and climate change. He said other themes and priorities include preparing the 27 EU nations for the December UN Climate Conference in Copenhagen;…
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"He Will Be Missed," NPC President Says of Cronkite
NPC President Donna Leinwand issued this statement Friday upon the death of legendary newsman Walter Cronkite: "Walter Cronkite, who joined the National Press Club in 1948, will be held up as the standard for great journalists for generations to come," NPC President Donna Leinwand said. "In 1973, the National Press Club recognized Cronkite's enduring legacy when it awarded him its first Fourth Estate Award for extraordinary service to journalism. From his coverage of the Battle of the Bulge to his long tenure in the CBS News anchor chair, Walter Cronkite represented the best of American…
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Please Welcome 32 New NPC Members
The Board of Governors approved 32 membership applications Monday, bringingto 265 the total so far this year, compared to 243 for the same period lastyear. The new members are: Active:Keiichi Homma - Yomiuri Shimbun, Journalist; Carrie Lynn Mitchell -Federal News Service, Vice President of Operations; Kelly Nuxoll -Freelance, Contributing Writer; Reiko Kamata Robertson - Freelance,Journalist; Martin Sieff - Middle East Times, Columnist & EditorialBoard Member; Tejinder Singh - Freelance, Journalist; Emily Walker -MedPage Today, Washington Correspondent; Jinglu Xu - New Tang…
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"Slow Down, Mr. President, " GOP Chairman Advises Obama on Health Care
President Obama’s effort to overhaul the U.S. health-care system and his hurry-up push to get legislation through Congress by Aug. 7 is “too much, too fast, too soon,” Michael Steele, chairman of the Republican National Committee, said at the Club July 20. Because health care accounts for one-sixth of the nation’s economy, the effect of rushed, ill-conceived legislation “could last for generations,” Steele warned. Obama’s ambitious timetable, he said, “should scare the living daylights out of us. “So slow down, Mr. President. We can’t afford to get health care wrong.” Calling Obama’s plan “…
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