This Week In National Press Club History

January 19, 2011

January 16, 1975: William Broom is sworn in as the Club’s sixtieth president by President Gerald Ford, the first time in six years that a U.S. president visits the Club.

January 21, 2004: Sheila Cherry is sworn in as the Club’s first African-American president.

This Week in National Press Club History is brought to you by the History and Heritage Committee, which preserves and revitalizes the Club’s history through displays, panel discussions, lectures and the oral history project.

For more information on History and Heritage Committee activities or to join the committee, contact Bill Hickman at [email protected].

-- Elizabeth Smith Brownstein, [email protected]