nytimes.com - 11/11/2008
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The visit was choreographed to show a smooth transition and a warm welcome for the new first family, but there was as much substance as style. >
voices.washingtonpost.com - 11/18/2008
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Sasha and Malia on their way to school
in Chicago last week. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak) By Amy...
Argetsinger and Roxanne Roberts After trips to two D.C. private schools, Malia and Sasha Obama are getting a special personal tour of the White House this ...
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Obama Girls Get a White House Tour
ap.google.com - 11/10/2008
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4 hours ago WASHINGTON (AP) President-elect Obama and
President Bush met in the Oval Office Monday, a...
visit that comes during a historic shifting of power to a new administration. Obama and his wife, Michelle, arrived at the South Portico 11 minutes ...
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The Associated Press: Obama arrives for White House ...
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Bush wants to play, 'Let's make a deal'?
Political Animal —
BUSH WANTS TO PLAY, 'LET'S MAKE A DEAL'?.... Barack Obama and George W. Bush met privately for 65 minutes yesterday, speaking in the Oval Office without staff. No notes were taken, and aides to both men were reluctant to share second-hand details with the media, preferring words like "friendly" and "productive." That said, we did get a sense of what was ...
The Early Word: A Party Asks, 'What Now?'
The Caucus —
... The Times’s Sheryl Gay Stolberg and Jeff Zeleny write about Mr. Obama’s one-on-one session with Mr. Bush: The visit was choreographed to provide images of a smooth transition and a warm and friendly welcome for the new first family, and the two couples obliged. But there was as much substance as style; the session came in the thick of a financial crisis that has Washington swirling with talk of a second stimulus package, an expanded bailout for the insurance giant A.I.G. and help for struggling automakers. For an hour and five minutes, Mr. Bush and Mr. Obama sat ...
The Bidens Meet the Cheneys
The Caucus —
The week of open houses in Washington continues. Following Monday’s meeting between President-elect Obama, his wife Michelle and President Bush and First Lady Laura Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney plans to roll out the red carpet for his successor on Thursday. Mr. Cheney and his wife, Lynne, have invited the future vice presidential couple to their residence at the Naval Observatory for an evening sit-down, according to a statement from the Obama-Biden transition team. It will be a private meeting that includes a tour of the vice presidential mansion. Tommy Vietor, a ...
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Transition: Bailing out the auto industry —
First Read 11/11/2008
Per Obama’s transition office, the president-elect will lay a wreath in Chicago this morning to honor the nation’s fallen veterans. In addition, in DC, John Podesta, co-chair of the Obama-Biden transition team, will hold a pen and pad ...
Obama asked Bush for help for auto industry —
Reuters: Politics 11/11/2008
CHICAGO (Reuters) - U.S. President-elect Barack Obama urged President George W. Bush to pass a second stimulus package to help the U.S. economy and asked him to use existing bailout measures to help the ailing auto industry, an aide said on Tuesday. ...
Obama Urges Bush to Help Auto Industry —
FOXNews.com 11/11/2008
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