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Communicator & Journalist Roundtable Dinner
National Press Club members are invited to another lively discussion with fellow communications leaders and journalists on current topics that we all face in our function and profession. By sharing our concerns, ideas, approaches and strategies, we help each other be more effective in our roles. A three-course dinner with wine will be served, at a special price of $62 per person for NPC members. Note: Members must be logged into their NPC membership account in order to access tickets for this event. Cash bar at 6:30 p.m., followed by dinner at 7 p.m. Business attire. This event is open to NPC…
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New Member Welcome Reception
Did you recently join the Club? Or maybe you joined during the pandemic and haven't had a chance to get acquainted? This gathering is a great way to meet other new members, club leaders, and the team of professionals who will help support you in your first years at the club. It's a great opportunity to learn about what we have to offer and ways we can support you in your life and your career. At the event, we will: Assist you in setting up mobile security access to the club Offer guided tours to help you get acquainted with the many spaces that are available to you (like our members-only…
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Game on for June Pub Quiz tonight in the Truman Lounge
The month has flown by quickly since the Club’s May Pub Quiz. For those of you who are anxious to play, good news: The June Pub Quiz is set for Thursday, June 8 at 6:30 p.m. Bring your friends and meet your fellow Club members in the Truman Lounge for an evening of food, drinks, trivia…and prizes! Since 2004, Pub Quiz has been a monthly staple at the National Press Club and Brainstormer Trivia, which has been supplying those fun and challenging questions, is back with the latest and greatest questions, from current events, sports, entertainment and everything else in between. And yes, we’ll…
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Welcome to Didier Toast
Join us at Taco Night on Friday, June 16 for a special welcome toast to the National Press Club's new Executive Director, Didier Saugy. Saugy joins us from the Foreign Correspondents' Club (FCC) of Hong Kong where he served as General Manager. Taco Night runs from 5:30 - 7:30 p.m. and we'll offer a toast at 6:30 p.m. Reservations for Taco Night at the Reliable Source can be made online, by emailing [email protected], or by phone at 202-662-7443. Let's give Didier a warm National Press Club welcome!
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The panel emphasized the Church Committee's bipartisanship. Hart noted that although Democrats had won big in the 1974 midterms and had 60 Senators, then Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield set up the Church Committee with six Democrats and five Republicans, giving his own party a one-vote majority. He asked Sen. Philip Hart to chair the committee, but he declined because he had just been diagnosed with cancer.
James Risen explained that the Church Committee was triggered by a report Seymour Hersh wrote for The New York Times about domestic spying conducted by the CIA. The intelligence community, he said, was the only part of the government that lacked oversight. Risen said he considers the Church Committee to be the most important committee in the history of the nation. The committee's leaders, Sen. Frank Church, D-Idaho, the chairman, and Sen. John Tower, R-Texas, the ranking member, agreed they would take an aggressive approach, Risen said. Several panel members said the committee followed the…
Asked what their takeaways from the Church Committee that would be applicable today would be the panel replied: Inderfurth: Oversight is more important today than ever with new technology, such as artificial intelligence and drones. Baron: To be effective, the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government led by Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, must be bipartisan. Johnson: We need to have the right people in the right places. Elect good people to high office.
Fenn: As Sen. Church said, “If you adopt the techniques of your opponent, you will become like them." We see attacks on democracy all over the world. We need to be a country others look up to. Hart: Bipartisanship is more important than ever. James Risen: When things work right, things get accomplished. National Press Club President Eileen O'Reilly moderated the event.
Panel: Church Committee did what was right for the country, not the party
The 1975 Church Committee, established to investigate the intelligence community, succeeded because the members of the committee and the staff that supported it put the national interest above party interest, author and journalist James Risen and former Sen. Gary Hart, the last surviving member of the Church Committee, told a National Press Club audience Monday. Risen, author of “The Last Honest Man: The CIA, the FBI, the Mafia, and the Kennedys―and One Senator's Fight to Save Democracy,” and his son and co-author, Tom Risen, were also joined by members of the Church Committee's staff Peter…
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Platinum Owl, ABC Network exec George Watson died June 1
George Watson, who was a National Press Club member for more than 60 years while he pursued his career as a national and international correspondent and ABC News executive, died June 1. He was 86. A graduate of Harvard University, where he was managing editor of The Harvard Crimson, and of Columbia University’s graduate journalism program, Watson began his broadcast journalism career in 1962 with ABC News in Washington after working for the Detroit News and The Washington Post. Watson joined the Club in 1961, according to Club records. He maintained his membership continuously, even while…
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