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The financial markets, foreign leaders and even the Bush administration are looking to President-elect Barack Obama for signs of how he will manage the crisis. >
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President-elect Obama offered the key post of White
House chief of staff to Rep. Rahm Emanuel, the...
first step in building a team that is expected to take shape in coming days.
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Obama Turns to Building Leadership Team
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The Early Word: The President-Elect Meets the Press
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... that shows the economy shed 240,000 jobs in October. Moving swiftly on a key cabinet position, The Times’s Jeff Zeleny and Jackie Calmes report that the president-elect may be zeroing in on a Treasury secretary: In a long list of forthcoming appointments, aides said, Mr. Obama is acting with the greatest urgency toward choosing a Treasury secretary and is said to be considering Lawrence H. Summers, who held the post during the Clinton administration, and Timothy F. Geithner, president of the New York Federal Reserve Bank. Politicos’ Lisa Lerer and Victoria ...
As He Manages Transition, Obama Under Pressure To Act Quickly On Economy
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... Meanwhile, some of Obama's own economic advisers are already beginning to pressure Congress, laying the groundwork for action once Obama takes office. Governor Jennifer Granholm, a member of his economic transition team, sent a letter to Congressional leaders urging them to finance public infrastructure projects, extend unemployment and food stamp benefits and pony up aid for the ailing auto industry. ...
A Different Emanuel for One Church
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... exchange and barter with each other for food, clothes and services. “We’re trying to rewire the way we make connections to each other,” Mr. Ellick said. “We’re trying to help them make the best of a very difficult situation.” Mr. Emanuel, obviously preoccupied by matters of state, did not respond immediately to a request for how it felt to be put forth publicly as a spiritual guide. Mr. Emanuel has made many iterations of the quotation but apparently articulated it first during an interview with The New York Times shortly after Election Day.“You don’t ever want a crisis to ...
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Europe Is Obama’s First ‘Global Test’
brusselsjournal.com 11/14/2008 — President-elect Barack Obama is already facing his first global test . And it’s not coming from the usual suspects like Iran or North Korea, but from America’s “allies” in Europe.
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The New Team - Rahm Emanuel - Series
nytimes.com 11/5/2008 — As he prepares to take office, President-elect Barack Obama is relying on a small team of advisers who will lead his transition operation and help choose the members of a new Obama administration. Following is part of a series of profiles of potential ...
Obama eyes Bush orders, bipartisan team
swamppolitics.com 11/10/2008 — by Mark Silva
President-elect Barack Obama plans an "across-the board'' review of President Bush's executive orders, with an eye toward making his own quick imprint on important matters, and will swiftly put in place a "diverse,'' bipartisan ...
POLITICAL HOT TOPICS: Friday Nov. 7th, 2008 —
CNN Political Ticker 11/7/2008
CNN: Official: Obama could name more administration picks Friday
President-elect Barack Obama could name other members of his administration on Friday, a day after he named Rep. Rahm Emanuel as White House chief of staff, an Obama transition official ...
Economy the issue as Obama meets reporters —
CNN Political Ticker 11/7/2008
Obama will have to confront the nation's ailing economy.
CHICAGO, Illinois (CNN) — The nation's sagging economy is expected to be in the spotlight Friday as President-elect Barack Obama and Vice President-elect Joe Biden hold their first ...
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