huffingtonpost.com - 1/8/2009
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WASHINGTON — President-elect Barack Obama says coming together with all the U.S. presidents is an "extraordinary gathering." Obama stood in the Oval Office on Wednesday with President George W. Bush and three former presidents: Bill Clinton, George H.W. Bush and Jimmy Carter. The ...
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6 hours ago WASHINGTON (AP) An entire generation
has gone by since the nation last saw this...
tableau of American history: every living U.S. president together at the White House. Consider it time for a reunion among the members of one of the world's ...
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The Associated Press: A rare gathering: Bush, Obama and ...
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Former Presidents George H.W. Bush, left, and Jimmy
Carter can smile now about their performance in polls....
(CNN) – A new national poll appears to validate the adage that time heals all wounds, at least when it comes to two former presidents ...
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Time kind to former presidents, CNN poll finds
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... All posed for a group picture in the Oval Office of the White House Wednesday. (White House photo by Eric Draper). It was a very momentous occasion, requested by President-elect Obama and hosted by our current president (OCP). First there was a private meeting at which reportedly, the old heads advised our new president-to-be on how he could avoid being caught in a White House bubble of group-think, and how a President Obama could make it more possible for his people to bring him bad news. At the end there was a dynamite photo-op for everyone, during which these ...
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Let's analyze the photograph of the presidents.
althouse.blogspot.com 1/9/2009 — 1. It's nice that they're all smiling naturally. A good picture. 2. The oddest thing is the way Bush2 is leaning over into Obama's space. It's as if he were saying "I'm with these guys." By contrast, no one seems to want to be anywhere near Jimmy ...
A Luncheon for Five Presidents
nytimes.com 12/18/2008 — President Bush is planning a lunch on Jan. 7 with President-elect Barack Obama and all the former presidents, the White House said. >
Bush to Host Lunch for Obama, Previous Presidents
blogs.wsj.com 12/18/2008 — John D. McKinnon reports on the White House.
President George W. Bush will hold a lunch for President-elect Barack Obama that also will be attended by the living former presidents Jimmy Carter , Bill Clinton and George H.W. Bush ...
Obama, Bush to lunch with 3 ex-presidents
msnbc.msn.com 1/7/2009 — An entire generation has gone by since the nation last saw this tableau of American history: every living U.S. president together at the White House.
Presidents Day
julescrittenden.com 2/16/2009 — Waking up on Presidents Day, 2009, quick check out the window, still looks like America out there. Obama gets a free throw today. No mockery, despite his chief of staff's revelation last week that mockery is the new statesmanship ... at least until ...
The Black Presidents Before Obama
americasfuture.org 3/1/2009 — Barack Obama was not the first African-American elected to the presidency. By my count, he was the seventh. It was just that he was the first nonfiction one. While pundits marveled over the fact that Americans could elect a man one generation removed ...
Obama has more threats than other presidents-elect - Yahoo! News
news.yahoo.com 11/15/2008 — WASHINGTON Threats against a new president historically spike right after an election, but from Maine to Idaho law enforcement officials are seeing more against Barack Obama than ever before. The Secret Service would not comment or provide the number ...
Recent presidents
pollingreport.com 1/19/2009 — Rating Clinton, G. H. W. Bush, and Carter
Obama Friend Takes Over Jewish Conference of Presidents
tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com 12/22/2008 — The Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish Organizations is one of the most reactionary power centers in the American Jewish community. Nominally representative of all American Jews, it has been run for decades by its executive director Malcolm ...
Extraordinary Revision
weeklystandard.com 1/6/2009 — The New York Times runs a story about Muhammad Saad Iqbal, who claims he was tortured by the Egyptian government at the behest of the Bush administration:
But the full stories of individual detainees like Mr. Iqbal are only now emerging after ...
Dean to be absent from Obama's DNC visit —
CNN Political Ticker 1/8/2009
WASHINGTON (CNN) — When President-elect Barack Obama heads to the Democratic National Committee today to formally unveil the new party chair there will be a notable absence, which is prompting some rare Democratic grumblings during these high ...
Podcast: Blair House mystery guest revealed —
CNN Political Ticker 1/8/2009
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Podcast: Blair House mystery guest revealed
The mystery is solved. In the latest installment of CNN=Politics Daily: A visitor staying at the Blair House prevented the ...
Obama backs extending digital TV cutoff date —
Reuters: Politics 1/8/2009
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President-elect Barack Obama backs a move to delay a mandatory switch to digital television signals, on fears that viewers are unprepared and as the government has run out of coupons to help pay for converter boxes.
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