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[31 Dec 2009 | No Comment | 210 views]

From US News:
President Obama had just received his morning briefings on national security and the economy and was about to confer with NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen about the war in Afghanistan. In between, he sat down with U.S. News Chief White House Correspondent Kenneth T. Walsh to discuss one of the most important and fascinating aspects of his presidency—how he makes decisions in a crisis. He was, as usual, methodical, cerebral, and dispassionate. Excerpts:

You have faced an extraordinary array of urgent problems. Is decision making under …

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[14 Dec 2009 | No Comment | 244 views]

“In a nondescript conference room tucked inside the library at the University of Delaware, a graduate student found a historian’s equivalent to a needle in a haystack.” read more in story from CNN