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By 3:30 p.m. on Jan. 27, Lawrence H. Summers has already been working for about nine hours, having checked the markets, read the newspapers, met with senior White House staff, finished his daily briefing to President Obama, visited both houses of Congress to discuss the stimulus plan and pulled...
Sitting in a briefing room at the Old Executive Office Building - his office is still unfit for official visitors - Summers tells TIME that the strategic goal of all these moves is to render a massive fix for the economy but then muscle the federal budget back toward balance. "It is...
Power sharing negotiations between Robert Mugabe's regime and the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) ended in confusion Tuesday, when mediators announced a deal - only for the opposition to immediately deny one. "All the parties expressed confidence in the process and committed to implementing the agreement," South African President...
Then Gibbs took the stage for his first White House press briefing, and promptly disclosed the official's first name. "We had Greg help you guys understand a little bit of that," Gibbs said, in front of live television cameras. Later a reporter asked Gibbs if he realized he had...
Gibbs had to endure a few other sticky moments during his inaugural briefing with a White House press corps that seemed determined to shake the lap dog reputation reporters covering Obama during the campaign had acquired. He fended off repeated questions about the second swearing-in of the President, which...