Obama, McCain Set To Meet At Transition Office

Former Rivals To Focus On Ways To Cooperate On Needs Of The Country CHICAGO (CBS) ― President-elect Barack Obama is holding a closed-door meeting with former rival Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) Monday morning. As CBS 2's Joanie Lum reports, Obama and McCain will meet at Obama's transition office at the Kluczynski Federal Building downtown. Obama has been working mostly in his transition office since the election, and he has also hosted former Democratic primary rival Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) and Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) at either the transition office or his Hyde Park neighborhood home. The meeting with McCain will be part of talks that Obama's transition office said would focus on ways they can cooperate on an array of troublesome issues facing the country. The meeting will be the first since Obama, the Democratic... [read full story]