U.S. Presidential Transition (2009)

by Frank James If you're President-elect Barack Obama and you're looking for a good excuse not to appoint Sen. Hillary Clinton to your cabinet, former President Bill Clinton is a godsend. The Obama campaign has reportedly been spending time vetting......

Obama's transition office ships a global warming video to a Schwarzenegger climate change conference:......

Here's a video distributed by Obama's transition, which in theory is designed to engage and involve voters, and comes with an invitation for feedback. A couple of thoughts: 1. It's really just a dull press release. But somehow dull press......

by Frank James Former President Bill Clinton is reportedly willing to accept limits on his charitable and money-making activities if that will clear the way for President-elect Sen. Barack Obama to nominate Hillary Clinton as secretary of state. As the......

by Christi Parsons and Peter Nicholas The roster shaping up for the Barack Obama administration is starting to look a little familiar, with an ironic pattern emerging as one name after another is added to it. A striking number of......

by Christi Parsons Ellen Moran, executive director of EMILY's List, will join Barack Obama's White House as director of communications. And Dan Pfeiffer, a key Obama communications strategist and sopkesman, will serve as deputy director of communications....

by John McCormick There is some irony that it took winning the presidency for Barack Obama to settle into a schedule that borders on humdrum. For now, he wakes up in his own bed, works out in the same fitness......

by John McCormick President-elect Barack Obama's transition staff released a video message this morning that he recorded to boost Chicago's efforts to win the 2016 Olympics. The message is for the European Olympic Committee (EOC) XXXVII General Assembly...

Obama just announced, as expected, NY Fed official Tim Geithner (left) as Treasury Secretary and Larry Summers (right), former Treasury secretary and Harvard president, as the chief White House economic advisor. Their relative status? He described...

by John McCormick Chicago businesswoman Desiree Rogers will be named to the position of White House social secretary, a source in President-elect Barack Obama's transition office said Sunday evening. Rogers, 49, is a close friend of the Obama family and.....

by Mark Silva Candidate Barack Obama went to Philadelphia to talk about race in America, seeking "a more perfect union," at a time when it appeared that the issue could dominate a presidential campaign. Now President-elect Obama will go to......

Obama's transition office issues a statement on the attacks in Mumbai: "President-Elect Obama strongly condemns today's terrorist attacks in Mumbai, and his thoughts and prayers are with the victims, their families, and the people of India. These...