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Panelists talked about White House transitions. Participants included officials who have helped to plan the past few White House and federal agency transitions, including former White House…

Students from the Washington Center, George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, and Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, participated by broadband feed in a distance learning class. Students from…

President Obama gave his second State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress. C-SPAN coverage of the event included interviews with journalists, members of Congress, and others prior…

Participants in a conference on the upcoming presidential transition spoke about past administration efforts during transition periods, promises made by both 2008 presidential candidates to “change the way Washington…

Former White House press secretaries for Gerald Ford and Bill Clinton talked about what the job was like and speculated on whether it would be harder in today’s digital age of 24/7 news coverage and…

Martha Joynt Kumar talked about her book Managing the President’s Message: The White House Communications Operation, published by Johns Hopkins University Press. Martha Kumar spent nearly…

The White House Historical Association held a Symposium about the West Wing to celebrate it’s 100th Anniversary. Panelists talked about the history of the West Wing of the White House,…

Professor Kumar moderated a panel of White House correspondents and White House press secretaries discussing the dependent relationship between the press corps and presidents. They…

At a symposium by the White House Historical Association the speakers talked about the West Wing of the White House, focusing on the Oval Office. There was a lecture by White House…

In a forum marking the 200th anniversary of the White House, Mr. Brinkley talked about Theodore Roosevelt’s conservationism and Ms. Brasco talked about political cartoons portraying various…

Journalists and former officials spoke about the changing relationship between the press corps and the White House, particularly as a result of a 24-hour news cycle and the introduction of…

Participants discussed the administrative role of the White House staff and how to effectively run the White House and implement a president’s agenda. After formal presentations they held a…

Press Secretary Michael McCurry and several journalists examined the tensions between the press and the White House. After their presentations, they took questions from the audience.