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Obama announces Economic Recovery Advisory Board
The scene in the East Room as President Barack Obama announced members of his Economic Recovery Advisory Board.
The economy is bad, says the president, and getting worse.
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Mayors back stimulus package
Twenty-one U.S. mayors met today with top Obama administration officials to express their support for the economic stimulus package. After the meeting, the mayors discussed the challenges they face as their cities deal with the economic crisis.
Watch the above to see Miami Mayor Manny Diaz, Palatine (Ill.) Mayor Rita Mullins, Akron Mayor Donald Plusquellic and Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin.
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Obama and the CEOs
President Obama huddled at the White House today with corporate CEOs as he sought - and got - support for his economic stimulus package about to begin a potentially perilous path through Congress.
After the session, the president and the CEO’s went to the White House East Room to discuss their meeting. Watch the video to see comments by IBM’s Samuel Palmisano and Honeywell’s David Cote, both of whom support the Obama plan.
And you’ll see Obama promise Americans they’ll be able to keep an eye on how the money is spent.
Here’s the list of CEO’s who met with Obama:
Steve Appleton, Micron Technology; David Barger, JetBlue; Greg Brown, Motorola; John Bryson, Edison International; David Cote, Honeywell; Debra Lee, BET Holdings Inc.; Anne Mulcahy, Xerox; Samuel Palmisano, IBM; Antonio Perez, Eastman Kodak Company; Eric Schmidt, Google; Michael Splinter, Applied Materials; Wendell Weeks, Corning; Ron Williams, Aetna
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White House stakeout
The “stakeout” is a staple of White House coverage. Traditionally, folks who meet with the president - and want to talk to the press about it - head to the stakeout position just outside the West WIng.
Here’s a look at what a stakeout looks like from the participants’ point of view. Today’s involved appearances by GOP and Democratic leaders after they met with President Barack Obama.
They all met together in a bipartisan session inside the building. But at stakeout, it was Repubs first and Dems second. The stakeout is not a place for bipartisanship.
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A new president and his old BlackBerry
Here’s White House press secretary Robert Gibbs at his first daily briefing for the building’s press corps.
Topics du jour include why President Barack Obama did a replay of the oath of office and why the president is keeping his BlackBerry.
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Obama rescinds Bush order on presidential records
As expected, President Barack Obama moved quickly to rescind a George W. Bush executive order that gave presidential heirs the right to block release of White House records.
In a Wednesday executive order, Obama revoked a Nov. 1, 2001 Bush executive order that gave ex-presidents and their heirs unprecedented control over the release of White House records.
Obama’s order sets up a new process for handling ex-presidents’ executive privilege claims to block release of records. For living ex-presidents, the order says the nation’s archivist will consult with the attorney general and the counsel to the president. The order gives heirs of dead presidents no right to try to block release of White House records.
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Putting the Inauguration in the Rear-view Mirror
I’m back on the Greyhound bus, on our way out of Washington and back to New York.
The driver got everybody’s attention with a crack about how the bus was bound for West Virginia. New Yorkers on the bus, clutching or wearing their Obama beanies, pins and posters, started shouting, “Whoa! Whoa!”
Here’s a photo of the lines from Washington’s bus station, which was running smooth despite being very busy.
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The Bush rally
A wrap of the day’s events in Midland as George W. Bush came home.
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W: The End
Here’s what it looks like when the featured guest is gone, the crowds have left and a lone letter on the ground serves as a reminder of an administration and a welcome-home rally now in the past.
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Bush’s flight home: Who got kissed?
Here’s former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and former FEMA Director Joe Allbaugh discussing the flight from Washington to Midland with George W. Bush.
Watch the video to see which one of them got a kiss from Bush.
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