News Conferences

At the Christian Science Monitor,  Ruth Walker explains how RN helped popularize the term “news conference” as an alternative to “press conference.” Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke held the Fed’s first-ever official press conference...

Henry Kissinger Speaks On China And The Mideast

This month, Dr. Henry Kissinger, Secretary of State during the Nixon and Ford Administrations and co-winner of the 1973 Nobel Peace Prize, published his first new book in eight years, On China. (Its publisher, Simon & Schuster, has simultaneously reissued Dr....

Obama Puts The War Powers Resolution To The Test

Today marks a significant milestone in a contest between the executive and legislative branches of this nation’s government that began nearly four decades ago, for it looks as if President Obama will not be asking Congress to permission to continue...