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Reliable Source introduces new menu items, drinks at lunch, dinner
There's more reason than ever to make the Club's popular Reliable Source restaurant the place to be when you eat out: Much of the menu at both lunch and dinner is new. The most popular items, prepared daily fresh daily by Executive Chef Susan Delbert and her staff, remain the hot buffet and healthy-choice salad bar – and both will include new choices. If you order off the menu, you can choose from such new items as Parmesan chicken w/ all the trimmings, Sautéed Shrimp entrée salad, Crab Cakes Platter, Steak salad, Spaghetti and Meatballs, Philly Cheese Steak Sandwich, and World's Best Reuben…
Type: News
Find answers to your freelance questions at May 16 workshop
The National Press Club's Freelance Committee, in conjunction with the Washington chapter of the Society for Professional Journalists, will host its Spring Freelance Workshop this Friday, May 16, from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. in the Zenger Room. The workshop will be the place for freelancers to find some answers to questions ranging from “How can I plan for retirement down the road?” to “How do I get an assignment this week?” In the workshop’s first session Bob Guldin, who has more than a dozen years of freelance experience, will talk about how to craft a good query letter. Guldin specializes in…
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South Africa's criminal justice system is topic of May 21 Newsmaker
With global attention focused on the Oscar Pistorius trial in South Africa, criminal justice advocates in the country are concerned that the plight of hundreds of thousands of people locked up for long periods in the South Africn prisons while they await trial is being overlooked. Nooshin Erfani-Ghadimi, project coordinator of the Wits Justice Project, will speak about problems in the South African criminal and prison systems at a Newsmakers news conference at 11 a.m. on Wednesday, May 21, in the Bloomberg Room. The Wits Justice Project, a program of the journalism department of the…
Type: News
Ex-Senate leader George Mitchell to speak at Newsmaker May 20
Former Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell, who also served as U.S. special envoy for both Northern Ireland and the Middle East, will address ongoing negotiations in world hot spots and the current state of politics and policy in Congress at a Newsmakers news conference on Tuesday, May 20, at 10 a.m. in the Zenger Room. In his role as special envoy for Northern Ireland after leaving the Senate, Mitchell, a Maine Democrat, brokered the Good Friday Agreement that led to peace between the province and the Republic of Ireland. He earned the Presidential Medal of Freedom for the accomplishment…
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Expert to discuss Battle of Midway at Legion Post meeting May 15
r. Thomas C. Hone, an award-winning book and article author on naval affairs, will provide a presentation on the Battle of Midway at a luncheon meeting of the National Press Club's American Legion Post 20 at noon on Thursday, May 15, in the McClendon Room. Speaker portions of Post meetings are open to all NPC members. Hone is a former executive in the office of the Secretary of Defense and has taught at the Naval War College and the National Defense University. The Battle of Midway was fought only six months after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor and marked a turning point in the war in the…
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Membership meeting May 9 focuses on committees, Member-Get-a Member Program
National Press Club President Myron Belkind gave a shout-out to the Club's committees and committee chairs at the Club's general membership meeting May 9, calling them the ``backbone'' of making the Club a place where members want to be. For example, he said, Jerry Zremski, chair of the Speakers Committee has lined up speakers for the next three weeks including Florida Senator Marco Rubio and Donald Trump; Fay Ludicello, who runs the Travel Committee, oversaw a trip to Vietnam and Myanmar, with members or their guests accounting for almost all of the participants; and the Awards Committee,…
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Club members invited to Rumi Forum luncheon tomorrow
Club member Mehmet Saracoglu invites National Press Club members to Rumi Forum`s upcoming Ambassadors Speaking Series luncheon featuring Spain`s ambassador-at-large for the Alliance of Civilizations of the United Nations, Belen Alfaro, at noon on Tuesday, May 13, at Rumi Forum. Alfaro will discuss historical and cultural contributions of Spain to intercultural and interfaith dialogue. She assumed her post in July 2011 after serving five years as minister counselor at Spain's mission to the United Nations in New York. Prior to that, she was senior counselor at Spain's directorate general for…
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GATT Negotiations
Type: Media
Golden Owl Charles D. Brown, founder of 'Transportation Table,' dies at 102
The Club lost one of its oldest, longtime members when Charles D. Brown, of Fairfax, Va., died March 22 at the age of 102. Brown, a Golden Owl, had been a Club member for 61 years. He was noted for founding and hosting the “Transportation Table,” a weekly forum for discussion of transportation issues that for many years was a Club institution. He launched the event while he was a spokesman for the Regular Common Carriers Conference, a Washington-based trade association of the trucking industry. Earlier he had been an aide to the assistant postmaster general for transportation. Born in…
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Stay tuned for upcoming Reliable Source events
Two scheduled events upcoming events in the Truman Lounge of the Club's Reliable Source restaurant -- the NPC Flicks movie this Thursday and Pub Quiz on Thurday, May 22 -- have been postponed. But no worries. The Reliable Source will continue to offer a full slate of activities, along with the best in food and drink. Watch for announcements.
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