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News Source: Daily News & Analysis
| 10 months ago
This is an extraordinary gathering," said Obama, who would be sworn-in as the 44th US president on January 20, inheriting a slumping economy with American forces waging a long-drawn wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Picking up on an idea from Obama, the...
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News Source: India Abroad
| 10 months ago
Obama met one-on-one with Bush for 30 minutes before they were joined for lunch by former presidents Jimmy Carter, George Herbert Walker Bush and Bill Clinton [ Images ] ...It was Obama who first conceived just such a meeting and proposed it to...
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News Source: B92
| 10 months ago
There was a historic gathering at the White House of past, present and future U.S. presidents on Wednesday...The president-elect said he has a lot to learn from the men who have preceded him. "This is an extraordinary gathering," he said. "All the...
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News Source: The Hartford Courant
| 10 months ago
Confronting a grim economy and a Middle East on fire, Barack Obama turned Wednesday to perhaps the only people on the planet who understand what he's in for: the four living members of the U.S. presidents' club. "This is an extraordinary gathering,"...
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News Source: Seattle Times
| 10 months ago
Donors to presidential libraries would have to be made public under legislation passed by the House. Legislation to make more presidential records public also was approved, overturning limits imposed in an executive order issued by President Bush in...
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News Source: Toronto Star
| 10 months ago
The world has watched daily as Barack Obama has pronounced on the state of the U.S. economy, likening it to a sick patient in need of a blood transfusion, warning things will get worse and using words like "dire" to describe the crisis he inherits.
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News Source: NewKerala
| 10 months ago
The meeting, which has been dubbed as an "extraordinary gathering" by Obama, saw George H W Bush, George W Bush, Bill Clinton, Jimmy Carter and the President-elect himself standing together in the Oval Office of the White House for a photo...
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News Source: The Globe and Mail
| 10 months ago
The five presidents held a brief Oval Office photo opportunity before eating in the private dining room just outside the office. "One message I have, and I think we all share, is that we want you to succeed," Mr. Bush told Mr. Obama. "Whether we're a...
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News Source: The Journal Gazette
| 10 months ago
Confronting a grim economy and a Mideast on fire, Barack Obama turned Wednesday to perhaps the only people on the planet who understand what he’s in for: the four living members of the U.S. presidents’ club. In an image bound to go down in...
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News Source: Denver Post
| 10 months ago
Three former presidents, the current one and the future one gathered Wednesday for a rare White House meeting of what may be the nation's most exclusive fraternity. No future meeting was set, but Robert Gibbs, a spokesman for President-elect Barack...