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Bush, Obama to Meet Before Inauguration
President Bush and President-elect Barack Obama have scheduled a luncheon meeting for Jan. 7, according to White House spokeswoman Dana Perino, and they hope to be joined by the other living presidents. The purpose of the meeting will be to "give advice and share stories" before Obama is sworn in Jan. 20, an aide said.
Bush and Obama met Nov. 10, just days after the election, and discussed a future meeting at that time. It is unclear, however, whether the three ex-presidents -- Bill Clinton, George H.W. Bush and Jimmy Carter -- have signed off on the get-together.
Obama has been holding a steady stream of private meetings in Chicago in recent days, in addition to his public Cabinet selection announcements and news conferences. On Tuesday, he convened his economic advisers to discuss the handling of a stimulus package; earlier in the week, he saw his national security team. Obama leaves for a Christmas vacation in Hawaii this weekend and is expected to arrive in Washington around Jan. 5.
-- Anne E. Kornblut
PERSON OF THE YEAR
Surprising Nobody, Time Picks Obama
Long shot steamrolls into the White House, erasing racial barriers, rejuvenating America's image and bringing campaign organizing into the Internet age.
Is there any surprise that President-elect Barack Obama was chosen as Time magazine's Person of the Year? As the magazine says in its main essay on the incoming commander in chief, "He hit the American scene like a thunderclap, upended our politics, shattered decades of conventional wisdom and overcame centuries of the social pecking order."
The runners-up may have offered good sport. As Obama overhauled American politics, Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson Jr. rewrote the rules of American capitalism. And just as Obama broke through a once unassailable barrier, the Republican vice presidential candidate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, played her own historic role in the 2008 election.
