thecable.foreignpolicy.com - 1/16/2009
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At a quiet dinner meeting late last week in Washington's Ronald Reagan Building, President-elect Obama reached out to outside foreign-policy experts, trying to resist the presidential bubble that is rapidly closing around him. Late afternoon last Thursday Jan.8, scholars and staff at the ...
news.yahoo.com - 1/14/2009
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news.yahoo.com —
This could ruin their reputation: President-elect Barack Obama
Tuesday evening attending a dinner party at the home...
of conservative columnist George Will , attended by fellow conservatives William Kristol and David Brooks . The press pool following ...
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politico.com - 1/14/2009
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politico.com —
The president-elect tonight is having dinner with some
ideological adversaries: four of the most widely-read conservative columnists....
He's dining at the Chevy Chase home of Washington Post columnist George Will with the Post's Charles Krauthammer ...
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Pepsi chief guest at foreign policy dinner with Obama
Ben Smith's Blog —
Indian-born and educated Pepsi CEO Indra Nooyi was a guest at a small dinner last Thursday with Barack Obama and a handful of foreign policy experts and top aides, a source said.
Laura Rozen reported last night on another Obama dinner with experts specializing in Iran and South Asia.
It's an interesting group, with other guests perhaps slightly to the left of the Clintonite names that have surfaced as likely State Department appointees. The guests at the dinner, convened by former Rep. Lee Hamilton at his Wilson Center, include Samantha Power, ...
On The Sly
Matthew Yglesias —
... Laura Rozen has an interesting item about a secret dinner Barack Obama had with some foreign policy experts outside his circle of official advisers: ...
Bursting the bubble
The Reaction —
... *, but, just as much, one of the more intriguing meetings Obama has had recently was with Lee Hamilton and a group of foreign policy experts, mostly on the Middle East and South Asia, who work outside "the presidential bubble that is rapidly closing around him," as Laura Rozen put it. ...
Bursting Obama’s Bubble
The Moderate Voice —
... *, but, just as much, one of the more intriguing meetings Obama has had recently was with Lee Hamilton and a group of foreign policy experts, mostly on the Middle East and South Asia, who work outside “the presidential bubble that is rapidly closing around him,” as Laura Rozen put it. ...
The achitect of Obama's Middle East policy
Israel Matzav —
... , but most of those discussions centered around the flamboyant James Baker and gave short shrift to Hamilton. If anything, Hamilton may even be more dangerous. Hamilton, a smooth Washington operator, has been successful at placing his protégés in positions of power in the foreign policy apparatus of the Obama administration. Laura Rozen of Foreign Policy.com wrote about a secret dinner hosted by Hamilton before the inaugural that was populated by Hamilton's protégés and that sought to influence the President-elect's views. A source close to Hamilton explained that he had a ...
Lee Hamilton Has Some Doubts About Afghanistan
Matthew Yglesias —
... Obama at a critical period in the primaries. Just before Obama’s inauguration, Hamilton hosted a dinner for him with a number of foreign-policy luminaries. Michael Cohen is ...
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