But the president elect knows Christopher as a cautious lawyer bred for quiet argumentation and persuasion, not an infighter who could go toe-to-toe with that lobby.
But if the US is expecting Mr Uribe to bend over backwards to accommodate American priorities, it will most likely be disappointed, as the president elect is fiercely patriotic and independent.
Sam Nunn would be a shrewd selection for secretary of state is partly rooted in Nunn's prestige, high enough to protect the president elect from domestic lobbies in foreign policy battles soon to engulf his administration .
The president-elect of the American Psychiatric Association, Dr. Jeffrey Lieberman, said the lawsuit's claims are "ridiculous" and without merit.
He is also the president-elect of the American Historical Association.
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For "parents with seemingly unlimited resources, the court is going to look at what we would call the 'New York City package, '" said Manhattan matrimonial lawyer Alton Abramowitz, who is the president-elect of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers.
The General Coordinator for the Transition Government, Videgaray Luis Caso, Vice Coordinator for International Affairs, Emilio Lozoya Austin, Ambassador of Mexico to France and Permanent Delegate to UNESCO, Carlos de Icaza and the Social Communication Coordinator, David Lopez Gutierrez accompanied the President-elect during the visit.
The president-elect of the Police Superintendents' Association of England and Wales, Irene Curtis, has told me that while "outsourcing of policing services has been done by the private sector for years", she's concerned as to "where the line is drawn with core police services and where those services are provided by a company that is not under the complete control of the chief constable".
Hillary Clinton, if she should be selected by the president-elect to be the nominee for secretary of state, Democratic Party officials said Wednesday.
The president-elect said over the weekend that he supports an economic stimulus plan that includes an overhaul of the nation's roads and bridges.
Those arguments may have weighed heavily with both Barack Obama, the president-elect, and the Democrats in Congress, who are moving towards sanctioning a bail-out package.
The president-elect said Sunday that the suffering on both sides of Gaza's borders has led him to ramp up his commitment to working for a peace deal in the Middle East.
Javier Diez Canseco, a congressman-elect, said that one of the economists who drew up the president-elect's campaign platform, a leftist document, should have been named to run the Central Bank.
The president-elect is expected to address the jobless report later Friday, after meeting with economic advisers on his transition team.
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Tom Daschle is Obama's choice to be secretary of Health and Human Services, but the president-elect has not yet made the formal announcement.
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In addition, the President-elect said he fully supported the Merida Initiative (please see below) and that his administration "is going to be ready on day one" to work to build stronger relations with Mexico.
Wall Street has evolved greatly in recent years with financial firms increasingly getting into each other's lines of business, and the president-elect has talked about consolidating the SEC and the CFTC, two of the most important regulatory bodies.
Jim Jones has emerged as the president-elect's leading choice for the position, two sources close to the Obama transition team say.
The president-elect is said to be monitoring the situation closely.
The president-elect suggested he'll start with the country's vast natural wealth.
Although it had no legal standing, the event was the symbolic equivalent of laying down the gauntlet to the president-elect, Felipe Calderon, who won the July 2nd vote by less than 1 percent.
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Obama also has proposed repealing the Bush tax cuts on the wealthy, but now it's more likely that the president-elect will delay any tax increases on the wealthy until 2011, when the tax cuts expire.
Aides to the president-elect said "a clear favorite" for the post was Socialist lawmaker Jean-Marc Ayrault.
The president-elect is slated to make an appearance at the event about 9 p.m.
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Aides to the president-elect said "a clear favorite" for the premier post was Socialist lawmaker Jean-Marc Ayrault.
Spokesman Jay Carney said President Barack Obama had called Mr Hollande to congratulate him on the victory, adding that the US leader was looking forward to welcoming the president-elect to a Nato and G8 summit in the US later this month.
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But with a long string of crises and scandals on Wall Street over the past year, the president-elect said he wanted to waste no time filling the job.
We were not blogging in this fashion during the last election in 2008, so the president-elect may well have missed out on our advice the last time around.
The Interfaith Alliance held a news conference Monday in Washington where representatives from the Hindu, Muslim, Sikh, Jewish and Christian communities said they neither opposed nor supported the President-elect George W. Bush's selection of the former Missouri senator as attorney general.
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