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News Source: The Boston Globe
| about 1 year ago
President-elect Barack Obama added three officials to his White House team on Sunday, making his top aide from the Senate a senior adviser and naming two deputies to chief of staff Rahm Emanuel. Obama's transition office said in a statement that Pete...
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News Source: Chicago Tribune
| about 1 year ago
Obama also said that despite congressional reluctance to move ahead with government help for the auto companies, he was urging management and labor to work with suppliers and lenders to come up with a plan that could provide a "bridge loan" for a "...
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News Source: Bradenton Herald
| about 1 year ago
Obama, who resigned his Senate seat Sunday, said in a letter published in Illinois newspapers that he was "ending one journey to begin another. ... But I will never forget and will be forever grateful to the men and women of this great state who made...
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News Source: International Herald Tribune
| about 1 year ago
During his presidential campaign, Barack Obama spoke of sitting down for talks with Iran, an idea that Hillary Rodham Clinton publicly criticized. So the idea that Obama might choose Clinton as secretary of state might seem incongruous...In reality,...
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News Source: The Journal Gazette
| about 1 year ago
President-elect Barack Obama has chosen a veteran Capitol Hill aide as his top White House representative to Congress, the Democrat’s transition team announced Saturday as he works to fill out the senior ranks of his team. Philip Schiliro has...
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News Source: Kuwait Times
| about 1 year ago
November 16, 2008 Barack Obama, who swept the US presidential election on a mantra of change, apparently believes it is Washington old-timers who are best equipped to steer the country in a promised new direction. Obama, drawing up lists of possible...
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News Source: Los Angeles Times
| about 1 year ago
The president-elect says he's determined to help people stay in their homes. He also calls for aid for the auto industry and names several White House staff members. November 16, 2008 "We've got to . . . set up a negotiation between banks and...
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News Source: Dallas Observer
| about 1 year ago
Texans in Washington will soon have a lot less to swagger about. The nation's political center has shifted to Illinois, and Texans won't have nearly as much clout. President-elect Barack Obama is surrounding himself with Chicago loyalists in much...
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News Source: AFP
| about 1 year ago
Signs coming out of Barack Obama's transition conclave in Chicago suggest he has no intention of lowering his sights for an activist, big ideas, presidency despite the deep economic crisis. Since Obama's historic election nearly two weeks ago, some...
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News Source: Chicago-Sun Times
| about 1 year ago
 Friday night, President-elect Barack Obama and wife Michelle headed toward ChicagoÂs Gold Coast to attend a birthday party for Valerie Jarrett hosted by another pal, Desiree Rogers. Earlier in the day, she got her gift: In ObamaÂs White...