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Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Obama and Bill Clinton Meet on North Korea

There won't be any media coverage.

It’s only the second time the two presidents, who are not particularly close, have spoken about Clinton’s efforts to bring home two American journalists who were sentenced to hard labor after being discovered in the country.

"This will be the first chance that the two presidents have had the chance to have a long conversation about this issue," Gibbs said, adding that Obama views this as a "crucial opportunity" to speak directly with Clinton about his effort.

There will be no media coverage of the meeting, which is scheduled at 4 p.m. in the Situation Room and is expected to last an hour.

Attending the meeting:

Bill Clinton’s advisers Doug Band and Justin Cooper will be with the former president. Both traveled to North Korea with him.

Also on the guest list from the White House: National Security Adviser Gen. Jim Jones, Denis McDonough, Tom Donilon, Jeff Bader, Danny Russell and arms proliferation adviser Gary Seymour. Politico

Thursday, September 11, 2008

Obama McCain Call Truce 9-11

Obama and McCain will together lay a wreath at Ground Zero. Also today, Obama is expected to meet today with Bill Clinton, who's going to hit the trail for Obama.

Politico: The two presidential candidates will call a truce in New York City on Thursday night for a conversation, on the seventh anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, about what their administrations would do to encourage public service.

Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) and Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) are expected to shake hands onstage in between separate conversations co-moderated by Richard Stengel, managing editor of Time magazine, and Judy Woodruff, senior corresondent of PBS' "The NewsHour."

Several cable networks plan to cover the Nation of Service forum (8 p.m. Eastern), the centerpiece of a two-day ServiceNation Summit 2008, named for a non-profit group that encourages voluntary service and civic engagement.

First Lady Laura Bush and Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) will appear on Friday, along with a long list of other political luminaries that includes New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg (I), California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) and Florida Gov. Charlie Crist (R). Some tickets to the forum have been given to Columbia University students who won a lottery, airing an unpredictable element to the event.