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From NBC/NJ’s Athena Jones CHICAGO -- In a roughly 20-minute news conference that began with a statement about the new jobs numbers (240,000 jobs lost in October), President-elect Obama says Washington must work quickly to deal with economic crisis. He emphasized, as he had throughout the campaign, that there is one president at a time, and he also stressed the need for bipartisanship in dealing with the crisis. He laid out some of the same points he had been making on the trail, a need ...
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whitehouse.gov — For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary November 4, 2004 President Holds Press Conference 11:17 A.M.... EST THE PRESIDENT: Thank you all. Please be seated. Yesterday I pledged to reach out to the whole nation, and today I'm proving that ... (more) President Holds Press Conference
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