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SEATTLE — Barack Obama promises to change the way business is done in Washington.
KAILUA, Hawaii — President-elect Barack Obama on Thursday bid his native Hawaii “aloha” after a 12-day vacation.
WASHINGTON — President-elect Barack Obama’s swearing-in could be a boon for Said Rangbar, among hundreds of people hoping to cash in on Inauguration Day.
WASHINGTON — President-elect Barack Obama’s Cabinet choices have sent a ripple through state politics, fostering behind-the-scenes jockeying to fill key vacancies in the shadow of the Chicago scandal over filling Obama’s Senate seat.
The clergy chosen by President-elect Barack Obama to pray at his inauguration fill separate symbolic roles: One is a nod to the civil rights activists who made Obama’s election possible. The other is an overture to conservative Christians who rankles some Obama supporters.
WASHINGTON — President-elect Barack Obama’s choice to be labor secretary, Democratic Rep. Hilda Solis of California, is expected to advocate greater union influence in the workplace and more “green” jobs.
WASHINGTON — President-elect Barack Obama plans to name Democratic Sen. Ken Salazar of Colorado to run the Interior Department, rounding out an environmental and energy team charged with quickly tackling global warming and developing alternative forms of energy.
WASHINGTON — Of all the things President-elect Barack Obama needs right now, one of them surely isn’t a new set of lofty expectations on his well-burdened shoulders.
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) _ Gov. Bill Richardson has landed a job in President-elect Barack Obama's Cabinet, setting the stage for a rare and historic midterm transition of power in New Mexico.
CHICAGO — Barack Obama announced a national security team Monday headed by Hillary Rodham Clinton, who fought him long and bitterly for the presidency, and Robert Gates, the man who has been running two wars for George W. Bush — striking choices by a president-elect who declared he wanted “strong personalities and strong opinions.”
President-elect Barack Obama’s announcement Monday that he would nominate former rival Sen. Hillary Clinton to be his secretary of state is being met favorably, though with some surprise, by area Clinton supporters.
CHICAGO (AP) _ President-elect Barack Obama picked a national security team headed by former campaign rival Hillary Rodham Clinton and Bush administration holdover Robert Gates on Monday.
WASHINGTON — President-elect Barack Obama plans to announce longtime advisers and political foes alike as his picks for top administration jobs at a news conference today, nominating one-time political nemesis Hillary Rodham Clinton as secretary of state.
President-elect Barack Obama plans to nominate Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton as his secretary of state on Monday, transforming a once-bitter political rivalry into a high-level strategic and diplomatic partnership.
SAN JOSE, Calif. — John Quincy Adams sought relief from the pressures of the presidency by sneaking away from the White House for nude dips in the Potomac. Warren G. Harding, who presided over one of the most inept administrations in history, was such a lousy poker player he once gambled away the White House china. And after a tough day in the Oval Office, Andrew Jackson liked to unwind behind the executive mansion watching cockfights.
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