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Medicare and Medicaid
Dr. McClellan talked about the 40th anniversary of Medicare and Medicaid and President Lyndon Johnson's signing of the original legislation. Topics included Medicare drug benefits, prevention-oriented health care, rising health care costs, and modernization of medical care. After his presentation Dr. McClellan answered audience members' questions.
Type: Media
NPC Virtual Newsmaker: U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Thomas J. Vilsack
Thomas J. Vilsack, the 32nd U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, will speak at a National Press Club Virtual Headliners event at 2 p.m. Friday, March 26. Secretary Vilsack was confirmed on February 23, 2021 to lead the Department of Agriculture – a role in which he served for eight years under President Barack Obama. He is the second longest serving agriculture secretary. Vilsack is slated to speak about some of his priorities for the coming term including transforming America’s food system, creating fairer markets for producers, ensuring equity, developing new income opportunities with climate…
Type: Event
National Press Club looking for the best news photo of 2020 for journalism contest
The National Press Club wants to recognize superior news photography in its annual journalism contest. The contest recognizes excellence for an individual news photo and the contest is limited to photos taken during 2020. Only one news photo should be submitted per entry and people are limited to three separate entries at most. The winner will win one year’s free Club membership. Members may offer photo entries for free, while nonmembers pay $75 per entry. The deadline for entries is April 15. The photo awards are intended to honor professional photojournalists who have produced outstanding…
Type: News
Amie Parnes, Jonathan Allen say Democrats don’t realize how close their car was to being flipped by Trump train
Former NPC President Jeffrey Ballou, left, asks a question of authors Amie Parnes and Jonathan Allen at a National Press Club Headliners Virtual Book Rap on March 10, 2021. Parnes and Allen were promoting their new book, "Lucky: How Joe Biden Barely Won the Presidency." Photo by Alan Kotok President Joe Biden needed only 43,000 votes spread across Arizona, Georgia and Wisconsin to win the last presidential election, Amie Parnes and Jonathan Allen told a National Press Club Headliners Virtual Book Rap on Wednesday. Parnes, senior correspondent for The Hill, and Jonathan Allen, senior…
Type: News
Edward Segal featured at Virtual Book Talk on March 18
National Press Club member Edward Segal plans to discuss his latest book, Crisis Ahead — 101 Ways to Prepare For And Bounce Back from Disasters, Scandals, and Other Emergencies, during a virtual book talk sponsored by the Member Authors Book Group at 7 p.m. Thursday, March 18. To register and receive the link to join via Zoom, email Heather Forsgren Weaver at [email protected]. The advice in Crisis Ahead is based on Segal’s 30 years of experience as a crisis-management expert, public-relations consultant, journalist, CEO of two trade associations, and press secretary for…
Type: News
NPC Virtual Opening Day with Fred Frommer & Phil Hochberg
Welcome the start of the 2021 baseball season by tuning in to a virtual Headliners book event with author Fred Frommer and former Washington Senators announcer Phil Hochberg on April 1 at 2 p.m. Frommer, former AP reporter and author of “You Gotta Have Heart: Washington Baseball from Walter Johnson to the 2019 World Series Champion Nationals," and Hochberg, now a Washington lawyer who represents sports leagues, will discuss the relationship U.S. presidents have with baseball. Past NPC President Michael Freedman will moderate the event. President William Howard Taft was the first president to…
Type: Event
Today at 2 p.m.: Author John Woodrow Cox to discuss book on the impact of gun violence on children
John Woodrow Cox, whose series for The Washington Post on the impact of gun violence on children in America was named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, plans to discuss his new book, Children Under Fire: An American Crisis, at a National Press Club Headliners Virtual Book Rap at 2 p.m. Monday, April 12. Access the event on April 12 or download a calendar reminder here. According to a study published in the medical journal Pediatrics, firearm-related fatalities are one of the top three causes of death for children 17 and under in the United States, taking more young American lives annually…
Type: News
Celebrations planned for Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
Plant a rose, ring a bell, and observe a moment of silence this year to honor those who gave their lives in defense of the United States. That’s the request from a group representing current and former guards at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. The Tomb was established at Arlington National Cemetery a century ago. The Society of the Honor Guard, Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, asks Americans to mark the anniversary. The Society’s president, Retired Army Sergeant Major Gavin McIlvenna spoke Monday evening with the National Press Club’s American Legion Post 20 virtually outlining the history of…
Type: News
Lead impeachment manager believes Senate would have convicted Trump in secret vote
Rep. Jamie Raskin, lead House manager in former President Donald Trump’s second impeachment trial, said Monday that the trial showed how very close the nation came to becoming like a “Banana Style Republic” and that a secret Senate vote would have come close to 100-0 conviction. Rep. James Raskin, D-Maryland, the lead impeachment manager, gave his perspective of the recent trial of former President Donald Trump to NPC President Lisa Nicole Matthews at a National Press Club Virtual Headliners Newsmaker event on March 8, 2021. Photo image: Marshall H. Cohen Raskin spoke at a National Press…
Type: News
Spring forward with NPC’s Pub Quiz at 7 pm on Thursday
“Beware the Ides of March!” Who said it? If you know the answer, well, then you’re just the person your trivia team needs for a jovial night of trivia and merriment from the comfort of your own couch. The National Press Club Virtual Pub Quiz is on for Thursday, March 11, at 7 p.m. via Zoom! Registration is easy. Gather your friends, form a team, designate your team captain, and then register here. If you have a team, make sure everyone registers via the Eventbrite link and create an amusing and imaginative team name. Don’t have a team? Don’t worry. Just register yourself and the Club will…
Type: News