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Presidential Transition

Paul Volcker Nominated

Paul Volcker Nominated

Today

In his third press conference this week, President-Elect Barack Obama nominated fmr. Fed. Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker to head a newly created Economic Recovery Advisory Board. Pres.-Elect Obama also mentioned that he will be naming additional nominees to his economic team at a later date.

Social Policy

From Washington

Town Hall on Race Relations

Town Hall on Race Relations

Today

The Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Cmsn. recently held a National Town Hall meeting at Gettysburg College. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr.
(D-IL) and fmr. HUD Sec. Jack Kemp joined civic leaders and historians in a discussion of the Lincoln legacy's impact on contemporary race relations.
A Look Back at Campaign 2008

A Look Back at Campaign 2008

Today

Last Friday, The University of Virginia’s Center for Politics hosted the American Democracy Conference. A group of journalists and House members look back at the Congressional races and the presidential campaign that became one of the longest and most expensive in U.S. history.

Recent Programs

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice Press Briefing Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice spoke to reporters at the State Department to discuss her upcoming trip to Brussels for a NATO Foreign Ministers meeting. Sec. Rice also discussed an upcoming meeting of the 6 Parties Heads of Delegation being attended by Asst. Sec. of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs Christopher Hill in Beijing.
Washington, DC : 39 min.
watch Sec. Rice Press Briefing
Abraham Lincoln: Great American Historians on Our Sixteenth President

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