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Treasury transition team has strong connections

The two men tapped to lead President-elect Barack Obama’s review of the Treasury Department bring wide-ranging political connections along with significant experience in economic and financial matters. Josh Gotbaum, in...

Obama's Road to Damascus

History will record that Barack Obama’s first act of diplomacy as America’s president-elect took place two days after his election victory, when he dispatched his senior foreign-policy adviser, Robert Malley, to meet with...

Interview With Steve Scully of C-SPAN

QUESTION: Secretary of State Rice, how does the world view America? SECRETARY RICE: Well, the world views America still, I think, as a place where you can be anybody and do anything, where it doesn’t matter where you came from;...

The Plum Book: Washington's Hottest Read

Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, November 7, 2008; 7:02 AM The hottest read in town next week will not be another kiss-and-tell about the departing Bush administration or one more yawn about subprime lending. Instead,...

OBAMA: A SMILING PILE OF GUILE

OBAMA: A SMILING PILE OF GUILE © COMING OF AGE IN THE WHITE HOUSE? by Norman Liebmann It is apparent that the job of being President isn’t attracting the caliber of people it used to. Having Obama and Biden in the White House...

Democratic think tank on standby

WASHINGTON - In a 10th-floor office a few blocks from the White House is a self-described government-in-waiting, ready to push detailed proposals for the economy, Iraq and scores of other issues if Senator Barack Obama becomes...

Progressive think tank offers new plan for America

In this June 27, 2007 file photo, John Podesta speaks at the National Press Club in Washington. Should Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., win the 2008 presidential election, one of the first people he...

Progressive think tank offers new plan for America

By CHARLES BABINGTON Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - The Center for American Progress, formed five years ago by top aides to former President Clinton, could become Washington's most influential think tank overnight....

Progressive think tank offers new plan for America

In a 10th-floor office a few blocks from the White House is a self-described government in waiting, ready to push detailed proposals for the economy, Iraq and scores of other issues if Barack Obama becomes president.

Progressive think tank offers new plan for America

In a 10th-floor office a few blocks from the White House is a self-described government in waiting, ready to push detailed proposals for the economy, Iraq and scores of other issues if Barack Obama becomes president.