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Members can sample specialty beers at the Club Nov. 21
Club members are invited to enjoy Goose Island Festivity, Hoegaarden Belgian White, Leffe Brune and Stella Cidre on Friday, Nov. 21, from 5:30-7:30 p.m. in the Reliable Source Games Room. Members will be given a complimentary glass and have the opportunity to explore the many facets beer has to offer. The Reliable Source bar will sell the beers that evening. Please be at least 21 to participate. For more information, please contact [email protected].
Type: News
Annual roast beef buffet to take place alongside book fair on Tuesday
Attend the Club's annual roast beef buffet on Tuesday before or after the annual book fair. Dinner is served beginning at 5:30 p.m. and costs $25 for members and $35 for non-members, plus tax and gratuity. Reservations are encouraged because this event has sold out in the past. Tickets can be purchased at http://www.press.org/events/reliable-source-book-authorroast-beef-buffet The menu is as follows: Soup:Beef and barley Salads:Frisée and spinach, sugar cured cranberries, fresh mozzarella and toasted pecansWedges of iceberg lettuce with blue cheese and baconSteakhouse chopped salad with…
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Bilateral Issues & Trade
Mr. Hawke discusses the Export Enhancement Program and other trade issues. He also discusses events in China and Australia's military alliances.
Type: Media
Adviser to Ukraine’s president touts Israel as a model
Ukraine would benefit from Israeli expertise when it comes to security and stability, a senior adviser to Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko told a National Press Club Newsmaker event Nov. 14. Oleg Mahnitskyi, Ukraine’s former prosecutor general, said his country “should learn from the experience of the surviving of a state in the conditions of war.” He said Poroshenko should “invite Israeli instructors just as we invite American instructors.” In the State of Israel, “the security systems have automatically adapted and any provocation is not left without response,” Mahnitskyi said, speaking…
Type: News
Biographies and histories among tomes for sale at 37th annual Book Fair Nov. 18
If there are biography and history buffs are on your holiday shopping list, be sure stop by the Club’s 37th Annual Book Fair & Authors’ Night on Tuesday, Nov. 18. These are 100 nationally known writers scheduled to sell and autograph their books at the event, which will run from 5:30-8:30 p.m. Admission is $5 for Club members and $10 for non-members. Tickets may be purchased here. No outside books permitted. A full list of participants is listed here. Rep. James Clyburn, D-S.C., will be in the memoir section with his new book, Blessed Experiences: Genuinely Southern, Proudly Black, along…
Type: News
Tickets still available for Silver Owl Fall Hoot, Saturday, Nov. 15, noon
There’s still time to reserve seats for the National Press Club's Silver Owls Fall Hoot at noon Saturday, Nov. 15. Tickets are $35 a person, which includes lunch and can be purchased here. A cash bar for early drinkers is expected to be available. And if, for some reason, you don’t make a reservation, the Press Club can accommodate a few walk-ins. The Hoot's planned program features a performance of the famed Whiffen Hoot song by the Owls’ own Dreadful Singers, as well as a talk on how a writer goes about producing a biography of a famous person. The speaker will be John Aloysius (Jack)…
Type: News
Did you know the National Press Club offers complimentary coffee in Truman Lounge?
Did you know the National Press Club has complimentary coffee service every weekday starting at 3 p.m. in the Truman Lounge in the NPC's Reliable Source? It is the perfect spot for a break to network with fellow members, for an afternoon meeting or to catch up on the daily news. For more information about your membership benefits please send an email to [email protected].
Type: News
NHL commissioner, Capitals owner plan Luncheon discussion of 2015 Winter Classic
National Hockey League (NHL) Commissioner Gary Bettman and Monumental Sports CEO Ted Leonsis plan to discuss the growth of the NHL and the 2015 Winter Classic at a National Press Club Luncheon Dec. 5. The Press Club luncheon will begin promptly at 12:30 p.m. Remarks will begin at 1 p.m., followed by a question-and-answer session, ending at 2 p.m. Luncheon admission costs $21 for National Press Club members (NPC members may purchase two tickets at this rate) and $35 non-members. Tickets may be purchased here. Tickets must be purchased at time of reservation. For questions, please…
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McCain raps about 13 soldiers from 13 wars at National Press Club
"At least you were president of something," Sen. John McCain, R-Arizona and 2008 Republican presidential nominee, joked with National Press Club President Myron Belkind at the start of a Veterans Day Book Rap Nov. 11 on Thirteen Soldiers: A Personal History of Americans at War, co-authored by McCain and longtime-literary collaborator Mark Salter. The Book Rap took the form of an interview, with Belkind leading the senator in a discussion of the new book, which tells the stories of 13 service members from 13 American wars, starting with the Revolution and continuing to the wars in Iraq and…
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National Press Club loans Rockwell painting to Rockwell Museum
The National Press Club's painting “Norman Rockwell Visits a Country Editor” will be on loan to the Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, for the next year. The museum houses the most significant collection of the artist’s work, as well as the Norman Rockwell Archives, a collection of more than 100,000 items, including working photographs, letters, personal calendars, fan mail, and business documents. The Press Club will be recognized in all promotional and descriptive materials while the painting is in their care. "Country Editor" appeared in the May 25, 1946, Saturday Evening…
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