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NPC Luncheon with Gloria Steinem
Gloria Steinem, the feminist activist and founder of Ms. Magazine, spoke at a National Press Club luncheon on Nov. 18. Steinem is one of 16 people President Barack Obama honored this year with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor. In her more than 40 years advocating for women’s equality, Steinem helped found the Women’s Action Alliance, the National Women’s Political Caucus and the Women’s Media Center.
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NPC Luncheon with Walter W. Bettinger
Walter W. Bettinger, CEO of The Charles Schwab Corporation, one of the world's largest investment companies, tackled issues facing future retirees at a National Press Club luncheon on Nov. 11, 2013. Bettinger, 52, presides over more than $2 trillion in client assets and 1.6 million retirement plan participants. As CEO since October 2008, Schwab leads a workforce of 14,000 full-time employees in 300 offices in United States, London and Hong Kong, and sets strategies that guide the investment and savings of millions of people worldwide.
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NPC Luncheon with Judd Gregg
Former New Hampshire Sen. Judd Gregg, the CEO of the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association, unveiled new protections for investors endorsed by the banking group at a National Press Club luncheon on Nov. 7. Gregg was accompanied by leaders of several banks who are SIFMA members.
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Alan Greenspan: The Map and the Territory
Dr. Alan Greenspan discusses his latest book, "The Map and the Territory: Risk, Human Nature, and the Future of Forecasting," at a Nov. 6, 2013 National Press Club Book & Author event.
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NPC Luncheon with Goldie Hawn
Oscar-winning actress and children's advocate Goldie Hawn speaks about a science-based education program to address emotional stress among children at a National Press Club luncheon on November 5, 2013. Hawn, disturbed by increases in school violence, youth depression and suicide, founded The Hawn Foundation in 2003 to help children develop the social and emotional skills they need to lead smarter, healthier and happier lives. The foundation, working with neuroscientists, educators and psychologists, developed MindUP, a curriculum and teaching model for primary school children aimed at…
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Where Were You When Kennedy Was Shot?
Four journalists who went on to prominent careers share their experiences in Dallas on Nov. 22 1963 when Lee Harvey Oswald's shots changed their lives -- and the life of the nation -- forever. CBS News Senior Correspondent Bob Schieffer was a cub reporter on the Fort Worth Star Telegram when he answered a phone call from Lee Harvey Oswald's mother, asking for a ride to Dallas to see her son. PBS NewsHour anchor Jim Lehrer covered the arrival of Air Force One for the Dallas Times Herald before being plunged into the day's events that took him to Parkland Hospital and the Dallas police…
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NPC Luncheon with Sally Jewell
Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell, in the aftermath of the federal government shutdown, discusses the economic value of our nation's national parks and other public lands at a National Press Club luncheon on October 31, 2013.
Type: Media
The Saturday Night Massacre - A 40-year Retrospective
The 'Saturday Night Massacre' that shook the national and started President Nixon's slide to resignation pitted power against rule of law, several of the key players said Oct. 17, 2013 at a National Press Club panel commemorating the 40th anniversary of the event. Panelists included: Bob Woodward William Ruckelshaus Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer Philip Heymann Jill Wine-Banks Jim Doyle
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George Takei speaks at NPC Luncheon - Oct. 18, 2013
Actor and gay rights advocate George Takei spoke about LGBT issues at a National Press Club luncheon on October 18th, 2013. Takei, who became famous playing Lieutenant Hikaru Sulu on the Star Trek TV series and in the franchise's films, has become and outspoken advocate for the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered people and has also been an advocate for the rights of Japanese-Americans.
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NPC Panel - Double Exposure
An October 10, 2013 National Press Club panel discusses how a mid-size city newspaper was able to unearth the extraordinary story of how an iconic photographer of the civil rights movement led a double life as an FBI informant. The panel brought to light how the Commercial Appeal newspaper in Memphis used a precedent-setting Freedom of Information Act lawsuit--and years of reporting--to piece together the facts about Ernest Withers. Withers was a photographer to whom Martin Luther King Jr. and other civil rights leaders had given close access. But, it turned out, he was at the same time…
Type: Media