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Obama's inauguration: 'Coming together'
The Swampby Mark Silva Inauguration Day has dawned for President-elect Barack Obama, with hundreds of thousands of onlookers filling the National Mall for the noon swearing-in of the 44th president. Obama and wife Michelle stopped for a church service and then.......Tags: Bill Clinton, Game, Sports, U.S. Electoral College, John F. Kennedy
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Obama's early national security agenda
The Swampby Julian E. Barnes President Obama will discuss U.S. military involvement in Iraq with his senior national security team this afternoon, a critical first meeting as the new administration reshapes the Pentagon's war strategy. "Running up to the...Tags: Ehud Olmert, White House, Mahmoud Abbas, Defense, Heads of State
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Obama's busy first full day as president
The Swampby Frank James With the pomp and ceremony of his inauguration as the nation's first African American commander-in-chief largely behind him, President Barack Obama was expected on his first full day in the Oval Office to take up the three......Tags: Heads of State, Health, Barack Obama, David Petraeus, Eric Holder
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Obama marks 'new era' at State Dept
The Swampby Frank James Trying to make good on the promise of his campaign and inauguration speech to raise diplomacy's role in U.S. foreign policy, President Obama visited the State Department on his second full day in office where he proclaimed......Tags: Diplomacy, Hillary Clinton, Heads of State, International Relations, United Nations
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Hillary Clinton: 'It's going to be hard'
The Swampby Mark Silva Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrived at the State Department this morning, and President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden will follow at Foggy Bottom this afternoon -- as a sign of the importance the new......Tags: Diplomacy, Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, Defense, Heads of State
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Bush: Edwards, Milken pardons denied
The Swampby Josh Meyer President George W. Bush, on his last full day in office, formally struck down the petitions for clemency of some high-profile politicians and businessmen, including convicted lawmakers Randall "Duke'' Cunningham, Edwin Edwards and Mario...Tags: Bill Clinton, George Ryan, Central Intelligence Agency, Louisiana, Court Preliminary
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Obama's Afghan surge: Spring cleaning
The Swampby Mark Silva With President Barack Obama insisting that the war in Afghanistan is "winnable'' - an assertion similar to that which former President George W. Bush made of the war in Iraq - the new president's own surge of......Tags: Wars and Interventions, White House, North Carolina, National Government, George W. Bush
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Afghanistan fight worthwhile: U.S. poll
The Swampby Mark Silva It's worth taking note of the fact, months before the Marines send another Expeditionary Force into Afghanistan and the Army deploys a new Stryker brigade, that American public opinion offers some support for an increasing U.S. military........Tags: Terrorism, Wars and Interventions, International Military Interventions, United States, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Stimulus: Like the surge?
Spin CycleOur Bill Murphy, digesting a new report from the NY Association of Counties, is reminded of another recent crisis response, and wonders if the stimulus is a long-term answer, or a short-term patch: "Is the federal stimulus package going......Tags: Wars and Interventions, Defense, Heads of State, Politics, International Military Interventions
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Nancy Pelosi, Afghanistan and the U.S.
The Swamp(House Speaker Nancy Pelosi with Afghan President Hamid Karzai at the presidential palace in Kabul. Photo by Zabiullah Tamanna / AP) by Mark Silva and updated House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, arriving in Afghanistan on the heels of the Obama administration's.....Tags: Harry Reid, Reconstruction, Defense, Heads of State, National Security
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Obama: How the war in Iraq will end
The Swampby Julian E. Barnes President Barack Obama announced today that he will pull the majority of U.S. military forces from Iraq by August 2010, fulfilling his campaign pledge to wind down the Iraq war -- but leaving a substantial residual......Tags: Harry Reid, John McCain, White House, Defense, Barack Obama
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Obama's Iraq drawdown: Marine stage
The Swampby Julian E. Barnes President Barack Obama is set to announce today that he will pull the majority of U.S. military forces from Iraq by August 2010, fulfilling his campaign pledge to wind down the Iraq war. But the plan......Tags: Harry Reid, John McCain, White House, Government, United States
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