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...final days in office. The Administration's terrorism policies and legal actions are also being examined with skeptical eyes in federal courts, on Capitol Hill and in ethics offices of the Justice Department itself. Many civil rights activists are hoping that more challenges will follow once President-elect Barack Obama takes office in January. (See pictures of how Obama's election energized the heart of the civil rights movement...
...Fifteen years later, major health-care reform still hasn't happened, but Daschle is now well positioned to change that as President-elect Barack Obama's reported pick for Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS). The former Senate Democratic leader has an understanding of the nation's health-care problem that comes not just from Senate hearing rooms or staff briefings. Daschle has seen, as few in Washington have, the particular toll that the broken system has taken on rural America. When I went to South Dakota 15 years ago to do a story on the problem, Daschle drove...
...Clinton. When Senator Edward Kennedy decided to endorse the freshman Senator, he called Daschle, not Obama, to deliver the news. Much of Daschle's political organization joined the Obama effort - among them, Steve Hildebrand, who engineered Obama's field operation, and Anita Dunn, a top strategist. (See pictures of Barack Obama's campaign behind the scenes...
...that health care is one area in which Obama's mantra of change has always been a hard sell. Shortly after the 2006 election, Daschle met with Obama at Tosca, Daschle's favorite Italian restaurant in downtown D.C., and urged him to consider running for President. "My message to Barack was, 'Don't always think you will have another shot.' " In his own pursuit of health-care reform, however, another shot is exactly what Daschle has been given...
...supporters at Chicago's Grant Park, there was one man watching the event on television 10,000km away who was thrilled to hear the news. In a Tokyo apartment, his wife congratulated him in a flood of tears, and he also wept over the victory. Thanks to Barack Obama, Japanese comedian Nozomu Sato is having the most successful moment in his 20-year career. Sato, 43, widely known as Notchi, is now Japan's own full-time Barack Obama impersonator...