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NPC Luncheon with Tom Vilsack, Secretary, U.S. Department of Agriculture
June 5, 2013
Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack described the effects of climate change on agriculture and detailed three new steps his department is taking to mitigate them at a National Press Club luncheon June 5, 2013.
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NPC Luncheon with President Sebastián Piñera of Chile
June 4, 2013
Once the poorest of Spain's colonies, Chile aims to be "the first Latin American developed country without poverty," declared Chilean President Sebastián Piñera at a June 4, 2013 National Press Club luncheon.
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NPC Luncheon - 2013 Gerald Ford Journalism Awards
June 3, 2013
Congressman Fred Upton, a Michigan Republican, and David Gergen, senior political analyst for CNN, were the featured speakers at the 26th annual Gerald R. Ford Presidential Foundation journalism awards luncheon hosted at the National Press Club on June 3, 2013. Honored at the awards were John Dickerson, chief political correspondent…
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NPC Luncheon with Patrick Donahoe
April 19, 2013
U.S. taxpayers may have to pay $58 billion through 2017 to bail out the U.S. Postal Service but the financially troubled agency would much prefer postal-reform legislation that gives it the ability to right its own ship, Postmaster General Patrick R. Donahoe said at an April 19, 2013 National Press…
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NPC Luncheon with Gil Kerlikowske
April 17, 2013
Gil Kerlikowske, director of National Drug Control Policy and President Obama's top advisor on drug policy, addressed drug policy reform and the Obama administration's response to substance use at a National Press Club luncheon on April 17, 2013.
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NPC Luncheon with Ólafur Grímsson
April 15, 2013
Icelandic President Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson announced at a National Press Club Luncheon April 15, 2013 the creation of an international assembly named "Arctic Circle" to alert the world to glacial melting and other climate threats and what can be done about them.
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NPC Luncheon with Ken Burns
April 12, 2013
Award-winning documentary filmmaker Ken Burns, whose films include The Civil War and Jazz, discussed his film, The Central Park Five, at a National Press Club luncheon on April 12, 2013. The movie tells the story of five Harlem teenagers wrongly convicted of raping a white woman in New York City's…
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NPC Luncheon with John H. Noseworthy, M.D.
April 9, 2013
Dr. John H. Noseworthy, president and chief executive officer of the Mayo Clinic, called for scrapping the current federal reimbursement system for Medicare and Medicaid patients and replacing it with one that rewards health care providers who use the most effective and cost-efficent treatments at a April 9, 2013 National…
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NPC Luncheon with Robert L. Johnson
March 26, 2013
Robert L. Johnson, Founder and Chairman of The RLJ Companies, addressed a March 26, 2013 National Press Club luncheon, sharing with attendees his findings from a recent Zogby poll, "Black Opinions in the Age of Obama."
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NPC Luncheon with Kathy Calvin
March 20, 2013
Investing in adolescent girls is the key to alleviating global poverty, United Nations Foundation President and chief executive Kathy Calvin told a National Press Club luncheon on March 20, 2013.
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