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Space exec to discuss what comes after the shuttle at Sept. 29 luncheon
Elon Musk, chief executive of Space Exploration Technologies Corp., will discuss the future of space flight at a National Press Club luncheon on Thursday, Sept. 29. The company, widely known as SpaceX, develops rockets and space exploration vehicles and has a contract with NASA to replace the cargo-transport function of the space shuttle. Lunch will be served at 12:30 p.m., with the speech beginning at 1 p.m. and ending at 2 p.m. Tickets cost $18 for Club members, $29 for their guests and $36 for general admission. To reserve tickets, please email [email protected] or call 202-662-7501.…
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Richard Hottelet, member of vaunted Murrow Boys, to be honored at Club awards dinner, Aug. 10
On a night when the National Press Club is honoring some of the best journalism being done today, it will also pay tribute to one of the pioneers of broadcast journalism. Richard Hottelet, now 93, was hired by Edward R. Murrow of CBS News as preparations for D-Day got under way in 1944. At 26 years old, he became a member of the vaunted Murrow Boys, the group of journalists credited with helping invent broadcast news. On June 6, 1944, Hottelet provided the first broadcast report that Americans heard of the Allied landings at Normandy. He went on to cover the Battle of the Bulge and other…
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Juan Williams recounts NPR dismissal, introduces new book
Former NPR political analyst Juan Williams was devastated when the public radio network fired him earlier this year over comments he made on a Fox News program about feeling uncomfortable when he sees Muslims on a plane. "I was totally knocked out, stunned," he told a National Press Club audience on Aug. 3. "NPR was a big institution against one individual, and I wasn't sure how they were going to spin it." Williams, who also is a Fox News political analyst and worked at the Washington Post for more than two decades as a columnist and correspondent, spoke at a Club book rap event that…
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GOP presidential candidate Ron Paul to address Oct. 5 luncheon
Texas Rep. Ron Paul, who is campaigning for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination, will address a National Press Club luncheon on Wednesday, Oct. 5. Paul is often referred to as the "intellectual godfather" of the Tea Party movement. Lunch will be served at 12:30 p.m., with the speech beginning at 1 p.m. and ending at 2 p.m. The event is limited to National Press Club members and their guests. Tickets cost $18 for Club members and $29 for their guests. To reserve tickets, please e-mail [email protected] or call 202-662-7501. Tickets must be paid for at time of reservation. To…
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Graham's book casts Saudi Arabia as central 9/11 character
Former Sen. Bob Graham asserts in his new thriller, "Keys to the Kingdom," that Saudi Arabia had more to do with the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorists attacks than has been revealed. “I’m upset that these facts have been withheld from the American people,” Graham said on Aug. 1, as he discussed his latest novel at a National Press Club event. “Osama bin Laden saw the (Saudi) king and said he would lead a revolution in Saudi if the king didn’t agree.” Graham believes the king capitulated. That meeting took place in the wake of the Mujahedeen victory in Afghanistan, when there were more than 600…
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Lehrer on 'citizen journalism'; Fourth Estate dinner Oct. 28
Jim Lehrer, longtime host of the PBS NewsHour, will receive the 2011 Fourth Estate Award at a dinner at the National Press Club on Oct. 28. Tickets are $125 for Club members. Every member can buy one guest ticket at the member price. Reserve at [email protected] or (202) 662-7501. Tickets for non-members, at $195 each, will not be sold until later. Lehrer has set a standard for broadcast excellence for more than 35 years and is also well known for moderating 11 debates over the course of the past six presidential elections. In the weeks leading up to the Fourth Estate dinner, the Wire…
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College president found herself in middle of Tahrir Square uprising
Uniformed snipers broke into the American University in Cairo building and positioned themselves on the roof during the Egyptian uprising earlier this year, the school's chief administrator told a Newsmaker audience on July 25. Protesters then forced their way in the building and tried to oust the snipers, according to Lisa Anderson, AUC president. Security personnel eventually took control of the situation, she said, adding that the university had never given government officers permission to enter the building. Anderson's office overlooks Tahrir Square, the rallying point for the…
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Bachmann won’t support debt-limit plan that fails to revamp federal spending
With the hours quickly dwindling before the U.S. House of Representatives was scheduled to vote on raising the national debt limit, Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann told a National Press Club audience on July 28 that she would oppose any effort to raise the debt ceiling that did not revamp U.S. spending policies. “I cannot support any plan that begins with the assumption that we have to raise the debt limit and yet doesn’t offer a fundamental restructuring of governmental spending habits. I won’t do it,” said the Minnesota congresswoman, invoking the fiscal legacy of…
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Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani to address luncheon, Sept. 6
Former two-term New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who received international recognition for his leadership after the September 11 terrorist attacks, will address a National Press Club luncheon on Tuesday, Sept. 6. Giuliani will assess where U.S. security stands as the 10-year anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon approaches. Lunch will be served at 12:30 p.m., with the speech beginning at 1 p.m. and ending at 2 p.m. Tickets cost $18 for Club members, $29 for guests of members, and $36 for general admission. To reserve tickets, please e-mail [email protected]…
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Port Authority prepares memorial plaza for 9/11 anniversary
Ten years after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey is preparing to open the 9/11 memorial plaza at Ground Zero, said Chris Ward, executive director of the Port Authority, at a Newsmakers event at the National Press Club July 26. President Barack Obama will join New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie at the 10th anniversary event opening the plaza, which contains trees, reflecting pools and waterfalls in the footprint of the two towers. It also displays the names of those who died. The next day, Sept. 12, the plaza will…
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