Today's Highlights

Presidential Transition

Announces New Security Team

Announces New Security Team

Today

Pres.-Elect Barack Obama held a press conference this morning and announced members of his national security team. Speaking from the Chicago Hilton, Mr. Obama appointed Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) as Sec. of State and kept Robert Gates as Sec. of Defense.

Fiscal Policy

From Washington

States Facing Budget Shortfalls

States Facing Budget Shortfalls

Today

The nation's governors are looking to Washington for an economic recovery program as they face shortfalls in their state budgets. The National Governors Association met in Washington, D.C., today.
Advice For President-Elect Obama

Advice For President-Elect Obama

Today

A group of former White House press secretaries who served Presidents George W. Bush, Jimmy Carter and Gerald Ford offered their advice on media relations for the incoming Obama administration. George Washington University hosted the event and GW Research Professor Stephen Hess moderated the discussion.

Recent Programs

Director Ron Howard & Screenwriter Peter Morgan In his new movie Frost/Nixon, Director Ron Howard & Screenwriter Peter Morgan look at the 1977 televised interview between David Frost and Pres. Richard Nixon. The movie gives us a glimpse into the mind of the former Commander in Chief surrounding the Watergate scandal, which led to his resignation.
Washington, DC : 24 min.
watch Dir. Ron Howard Interview
Abraham Lincoln: Great American Historians on Our Sixteenth President

This Week on C-SPAN


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