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Who Are Obama's Economic Summit Stand-Ins?(Barack Obama sends Madeleine Albright and Jim Leach in global economic crisis summit)

Article from: U.S. News & World Report Article date: November 12, 2008

A bipartisan team: former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and former Rep. Jim Leach

President-elect Obama won't be attending this weekend's global economic crisis summit in Washington--saying again that there is only "one president at a time"--but he's sending a bipartisan team to talk with the visiting world leaders and report back to him.

The Obama transition team issued this statement:

"President-elect Obama (http://www.usnews.com/Topics/tag/People/O/barack_obama/index.html) and Vice President-elect Biden today announced that former Republican Congressman ...

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No. 44 Must Get to Work Nov. 5

Posted Oct 27, 08 9:40 AM CDT in Politics 

No. 44 Must Get to Work Nov. 5
Source: AP Photo/Jae C. Hong

(Newser) – America hasn’t been this eager for the new president to take over since FDR ousted Herbert Hoover, write John Brinsley and Edwin Chen for Bloomberg. Then, as now, an economic crisis heightened the urgency for a fast, smooth transition. And while Roosevelt rejected Hoover’s offers to work together on a rescue plan, there are signs that this year’s president-elect will work with Bush.

That will mean abandoning the president-elect’s traditional place on the sidelines for an administration’s waning days. Bush’s Treasury officials say they’ll invite the next president’s aides to work out of the Treasury office, and some expect a new Treasury secretary named as early as the victory speech. “There’s only one president at a time,” says one expert on transitions. “But maybe we’ve got to think about an exception here.”

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