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From the President's Desk: Donate online to employee holiday fund
Thank you to our generous National Press Club members who have asked how to donate to the employee holiday fund if you can't come to the Press Club and do so in person. We've now got a link where you can easily and securely give a donation electronically so if you want to donate online, click here. And if you missed the blog in the Wire on Dec. 11, this is what I'm talking about... All year long, the National Press Club staff works hard to make the Press Club a great place for members, clients and other guests. Now's the time of year when we get to show our thanks to them for their dedication…
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Novelist describes America as complex country with aversion to history
This Week In National Press Club History: Dec. 10, 1986: James Baldwin, novelist, essayist, playwright, poet and social critic, addresses a Press Club Luncheon. Describing himself as the grandson of a slave and an American citizen with a sometimes stormy life, he argues America is a very complex country that has an aversion to history, and regrettably regards simplicity and immaturity as virtues. Dec. 12, 1912: The NPC holds its first burlesque debate: “That bow-legs are a greater menace to navigation than knock-knees.” The Club’s 50th anniversary history, Shrdlu, later describes the event…
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Past NPC President Klein remembers Nelson Mandela's visit to the Club
On Oct. 7, 1994, I was Club president when Nelson Mandela spoke here during his first visit to the United States as president of the Republic of South Africa. Two things stand out about that day: First, the speaker advertised for that day was Wall Street tycoon Peter Lynch, and I had 300 people in a financial writers conference expecting to hear him. Then I got a call from the South African embassy. Would you please have Nelson Mandela speak on Oct. 7 at lunch? With my suggestions for breakfast or dinner rejected, I knew I could not pass on Nelson Mandela. I said I would be pleased to have…
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Argus Media seeking editor for transportation publications
Argus Media is seeking an editor for one of its two commodity transportation publications produced from its Washington, D.C. office. The position would entail writing and editing news and policy affecting transportation and the companies, railroads and shippers that operate in those markets. The candidate would be responsible for one weekly publication, and would also identify rail and barge rates for different commodities. Most coverage is focused on the coal, agricultural, chemical and petroleum markets, as well as relevant transportation policy evolving in Washington. Argus will consider…
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National Press Club Statement On Nelson Mandela
The following statement on Nelson Mandela was issued by Angela Greiling Keane, President of the National Press Club. "The National Press Club expresses its deepest condolences to the family of Nelson Mandela and to the people of South Africa. Mr. Mandela spoke twice at the National Press Club, once at as the leader of the African National Congress shortly after his release in 1991, and then as President of South Africa in 1994. For many people in Washington these events were their first opportunities to see and hear Mandela speak and they say it is something they will never forget. His…
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Former Vice President Cheney, cardiologist describe health crisis journey at Book Rap
Former Vice President Richard Cheney and Dr. Jonathan Reiner presented their book on Cheney’s health, Heart: An American Medical Odyssey, to a packed audience at the National Press Club on Dec 3. Reiner described how “seemingly, every time (Cheney) had a medical event that … might stop his career or stop his life, medicine had an answer for it.” In each case, there was a medical answer and “the vice president used that medical event to not just survive the event but to thrive,” he emphasized. “The vice president didn't just survive these events, every time he had an event, he took a job of…
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Fourth Estate Italian feast to feature popular cookbook author Domenica Marchetti, Jan. 23
Popular Italian cookbook author Domenica Marchetti will sign her latest book and host a five-course dinner on Thursday, Jan. 23, at the Fourth Estate restaurant. The dinner will draw from her latest cookbook, The Glorious Vegetables of Italy, and will include Italian wines, such as Piemonte and Sardenga, specially paired with the dishes. The menu is listed below. National Press Club members can purchase tickets for $150 per couple and $80 per single. Non-member tickets are $170 per couple and $90 for per single. Tickets include tax, tip and one signed cookbook. To purchase tickets, click here…
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FBI agents discuss sequestration budget cuts, furlough impacts at Press Club Newsmaker
The National Executive Board of the FBI Agents Association (FBIAA) spoke on the impact of current budget cuts on the daily operations of the FBI, and other concerns associated with future cuts and furloughs at a Dec. 4 National Press Club Newsmaker event. The FBI “took some pretty big cuts” that affected active investigations in 2013 and is “going forward on 2014 looking down the barrel of a $700 million cut” to the Bureau’s budget, said Reynaldo Tariche, association president and an active agent in the New York Field Office. The sequestration budget cuts would affect some “mission-critical…
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Did You Know? National Press Club members test trivia knowledge with Pub Quiz
Did you know that the National Press Club hosts a monthly trivia night? Test your knowledge at the next edition of Pub Quiz at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Dec. 19 in the NPC's Reliable Source's Truman Lounge. No need to reserve. Bring your own team or show up and join one. Round prizes include complimentary appetizers. The grand prize of the evening is $50 off your tab. Pub Quiz is open only to Club members and their guests. For more information about your membership benefits please email [email protected].
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Colombian president describes FARC peace talks, economic agenda at Press Club event
Juan Manuel Santos, president of Colombia, laid out his agenda to advance his country's economic, political and social transformation during an appearance at the National Press Club on Dec. 3. Santos spoke in detail about his historic, and controversial, peace talks with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, also known as FARC, and other rebel groups that had been at war with the government for nearly a half century. Counterterrorism efforts supported by the United States' Plan Colombia program beginning in 2000 and years of military victories had weakened the rebels and removed key…
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