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Trump Signs VA Firing Reforms Into Law
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Beyond Buyouts and RIFs for Workforce Management
Agency Jobs Watch: An Update on Buyout Offers
Enabling the Workplace of the Future
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George E. Condon Jr.
George E. Condon Jr. is White House correspondent for National Journal. He joined National Journal at the beginning of the Obama administration, covering the White House for CongressDaily. Prior to that, he covered the White House and national politics as Washington bureau chief for Copley News Service and the San Diego Union-Tribune. Condon has interviewed eight presidents and reported from 88 countries. He led the team that won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting for coverage of the corruption of Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham. Condon is a past president of the White House Correspondents Association and the Gridiron Club and past chairman of the National Press Foundation.
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Kushner’s Curious Plan for a Back Channel
June 5, 2017 Diplomatic back channels, far from being invented by Donald Trump or his son-in-law Jared Kushner, have been an accepted fixture in almost every presidency since George Washington, most famously at the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962 when President Kennedy’s brother, Robert F. Kennedy, was more engaged than...
How to Make Donald Trump’s Phone Safe
December 16, 2016 Eight years after he was the man trying to grant Barack Obama’s plea to keep his BlackBerry, Richard “Dickie” George is watching with more than casual interest while another president-elect fights to keep his smartphone as a lifeline out of the bubble that is the modern presidency. Obama won that...
How to Make Donald Trump’s Phone Safe
December 16, 2016
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Eight years after he was the man trying to grant Barack Obama’s plea to keep his BlackBerry, Richard “Dickie” George is watching with more than casual interest while another president-elect fights to keep his smartphone as a lifeline out of the bubble that is the modern presidency. Obama won that...
How to Make Donald Trump’s Phone Safe
December 16, 2016 Eight years after he was the man trying to grant Barack Obama’s plea to keep his BlackBerry, Richard “Dickie” George is watching with more than casual interest while another president-elect fights to keep his smartphone as a lifeline out of the bubble that is the modern presidency. Obama won that...
The Rocky Obama-Sanders Relationship
June 9, 2016 Don’t expect a lot of warmth when President Obama sits down Thursday at the White House with Sen. Bernie Sanders. This is not a reunion of political allies or personal friends or fellow senators who bonded when they served together. Instead, the agenda will be all business as the president...
How Obama Will Give His Final State of the Union
January 9, 2016 As President Obama prepares to deliver his final State of the Union address Tuesday, he can only hope for better treatment than the last two-term president received. The White House back in 2008 was less than thrilled when President George W. Bush’s appearance before a joint session of Congress was...
The White House Thinks Obama Had a Very Good Year. The Public Isn’t so Sure.
December 21, 2015 By almost all traditional metrics, the White House should be celebrating his 2015 instead of offering the subdued and measured defense seen from President Obama at his end-of-the-year press conference. After all, the usual numbers are good—unemployment rate down, job creation up, inflation low, GDP up, gas prices declining. Only...
The President Again Tries to Right the Ship
November 25, 2015 With the country shaken by the bloodshed in Paris, nervous about attacks at home, and concerned about an influx of refugees from the Middle East, many presidents would take to the airwaves for a prime-time address to reassure an anxious nation. But that is not President Obama’s preferred way to...
Yes, President Obama Is Going to Watch the Debate
October 13, 2015 The White House wants you to know that President Obama is not watching every step taken by those who want his job. “He feels like he’s got better things to do,” explained press secretary Josh Earnest when asked why the president didn’t watch the early GOP candidate debates. While Earnest...
Obama Vows Another Try on Gun Regulation
October 2, 2015 Americans saw an angry and frustrated president Thursday evening, a president who has reached his breaking point as yet more innocent victims of gun violence are counted and yet more funerals are planned. For the 15th time in his tenure, President Obama had to face the cameras to somehow lead...
