And another thing… Perhaps brevity is elusive for a man who once held the Theodore and Frances Geballe Professor of Physics and Applied Physics chair at Stanford University and is credited with producing one of the earliest atomic physics confirmations...
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Steven Chu at the Department of the Interior in Washington.
Energy’s Chu: Success Requires Failure
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Pope Benedict XVI meets with Defense Secretary Leon Panetta at the end of the General Audience at the Paul VI Hall on Jan. 16, 2013 in Vatican City.
Pope to Panetta: ‘Thank You’
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta is asking for a little divine intervention as he wraps up his service at the Pentagon. Panetta is spending this week on a trip to western Europe, with the official purpose of thanking NATO allies for...
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U.S, Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood Speaks at the Opening Ceremony of the North American International Auto Show on Jan. 14, 2013.
LaHood Skips Corvette at Auto Show, Avoids Questions About Own Future
If Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood is stepping down imminently, he has the best poker face at the table. LaHood today traveled to the North American International Auto Show in Detroit to speak at the show’s opening and meet with automakers...
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President Barack Obama speaks with Chief of Staff Jack Lew while waiting for Russian President Vladimir Putin to arrive for their bilateral meeting on June 18, 2012 in San Jose Del Cabo, Mexico.
Lew to Treasury: Word Tomorrow
President Barack Obama plans tomorrow to name White House Chief of Staff Jack Lew as his choice for Treasury secretary, replacing Timothy F. Geithner, a person familiar with the process said. Lew, 57, who also has served as director of...
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Senator Chuck Hagel speaking with then senator Joe Biden in this file photo.
Washington Daybook: Hagel, Brennan
President Barack Obama will announce his choice of Chuck Hagel for defense secretary today, setting up a showdown with an ad hoc coalition that opposes the former Republican senator, including members of his own party who advocate muscular defense policies,...
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President Barack Obama greets people as he visits Island Snow for shave ice in Kailua, Hawaii, during his holiday vacation, on Jan 3, 2013.
Obama Home from the Holidays: Hard New Year’s Nights Ahead
President Barack Obama returns to Washington today from his annual family vacation in Hawaii for a week expected to include Cabinet nominations, a meeting with Afghan President Hamid Karzai and preparations for a second-term inauguration. Obama is scheduled to return...
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U.S. President Barack Obama (L) nominated Senator John Kerry to be the next secretary of state, at the White House on Dec. 21, 2012 in Washington, D.C.
Kerry Can’t Do It All: Picking Someone to Preside
President Barack Obama joked about a procedural quirk that lies ahead when he chose Senator John Kerry as his nominee for secretary of state. “I guess you won’t be able to actually appear and preside at the same time,” Obama...
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Senator Chuck Hagel addresses the International Association of Fire Fighters in Washington in this file photo.
Hagel Leads Defense Candidates
Former Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel has emerged as the leading candidate to become Obama’s next Secretary of Defense and may be nominated as soon as this month, according to two people familiar with the matter. Hagel, who served as an...
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Senator Scott Brown, a Republican from Massachusetts, speaks during an interview at the Capitol building in Washington, in this July 15, 2010 file photo.
Scott Brown: `We May… Meet Again’
So was that a cheerful goodbye or something else? It’s going-away-speech day on the Senate floor, and so far the one most likely to generate buzz came from defeated Massachusetts Republican Scott Brown, who told his colleagues that “victory and...
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Stephen Schwarzman, chairman and chief executive officer of Blackstone Group LP.
Schwarzman Hopes to Hold James
Steve Schwarzman doesn’t want to lose his right-hand man. Asked whether his chief operating officer, Hamilton “Tony” James, could be the next Treasury secretary, the Blackstone Group CEO told CNBC this morning that such a prospect worries him — not...
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