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NPC Headliners Book Event: Joanna Breyer on what to do "When Your Child is Sick"
Author and psychosocial counselor Joanna Breyer used her decades of experience working with sick children and their families to create the comprehensive field guide we all hope we will never need: “When Your Child is Sick: A Guide to Navigating the Practical and Emotional Challenges of Caring for a Child Who is Very Ill.” Breyer will lead an intimate conversation on how parents can take back some control and cope with the impossible at a National Press Club Headliners Book Event on Tuesday, November 13. This event will take place at 6:30 p.m. in the Club’s Lisagor Room, and will feature a…
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NPC Headliners Luncheon: Sen. Ben Sasse (R-NE)
Livestream will begin 10/31 at 1:00pm ET. Sen. Ben Sasse (R-NE) will discuss his latest book, “THEM: Why We Hate Each Other – and How to Heal,” at a National Press Club Headliners Luncheon and Book Signing Event on Wednesday, October 31 at 12:30 p.m. in the Club’s Holeman Lounge. In “THEM,” Sasse argues that the deepening divide within our nation is not the product of any one political party, person or event, but rather the gradual erosion of our sense of community and belonging, and our subsequent efforts to fill that void with what Sasse calls “Anti-tribes” on social media and cable…
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NPC Headliners Luncheon: Doris Kearns Goodwin: "Leadership in Turbulent Times"
Livestream will begin 11/5 at 1:00pm ET. On the eve of the 2018 Midterms, world-renowned presidential historian and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Doris Kearns Goodwin will share her seventh and latest book, “Leadership in Turbulent Times,” at a National Press Club Headliners Luncheon, Monday, November 5. In “Leadership in Turbulent Times,” Goodwin revisits the four presidents she has studied most closely – Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Lyndon B. Johnson – to explore the shared traits, values, and abilities that afforded each of these men the opportunity…
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Future of the U.S. Military
General Shalikashvili, who recently resigned as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, spoke about the future of the U.S. military. He lauded the men and women of the armed forces whose work has made the U.S. secure. He discussed post-Cold War reductions in military personnel and the consequent budget reductions. He also talked about the ethnic and religious conflicts around the world in the past four years which resulted in 40 separate operations for U.S. armed forces. Bosnia is the most prominent of these. He encouraged taking stock of the relationship between the military and U.S. citizens…
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NPC Communicators Team
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NPC Membership Team
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NPC House Team
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NPC Headliners Book Event: Dr. Paul Offit & "Bad Advice"
Dr. Paul Offit, an award-winning expert on vaccines, immunology and virology and co-inventor of a rotavirus vaccine credited with saving hundreds of lives every day, will appear at a National Press Club Headliners Book Rap on Monday, October 29, to discuss his latest book: “Bad Advice: Or Why Celebrities, Politicians and Activists Aren’t Your Best Source of Health Information.” In “Bad Advice,” Dr. Offit uses harrowing and often humorous stories from his own experiences as one of the countries’ top pediatricians and leading vaccine advocates to illustrate why scientists must hone their…
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National Press Club to host briefing on effort to #KeepEmilioFree
Eduardo Beckett, the lead attorney for Emilio Gutiérrez-Soto, the National Press Club's 2017 Press Freedom award winner, will brief reporters on continuing legal threats to the Mexican reporter on Friday, October 12 at 9:30 a.m. in the Club's Zenger Room. Read Gutiérrez's account, "A reporter detained: On life inside ICE camps," here. Freed from eight months of detention by Immigration and Customs Enforcement following a lengthy legal challenge by U.S. and international press organizations, Gutiérrez and his son, Oscar, are now living in Ann Arbor, Michigan, where the veteran reporter has…
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Oktoberfest Buffet & Music Night
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