First, tomorrow I will be joined here in the briefing room by Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius and FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg for an important announcement regarding tobacco use and public health.
Ushered into the living room by the secretary after a quarter of an hour, Husna gazed around her, as petitioners do, more tense than curious, taking in the worn gold brocade on the sofa, a large Chinese painting of horsemen over the rosewood mantel.
In a personal statement, Foreign Secretary William Hague has admitted sharing a hotel room with a young male special adviser during the election but has vehemently denied improper behaviour.
Early prisoner releases under the Good Friday Agreement could be affected if it is proven that the IRA was behind a bar-room killing, the Northern Ireland Secretary has said.
When his counterpart, James Baker, appears in the briefing room they share, the former Secretary of State brings aides, files and a bank of supplementary flags to solemnify his surroundings.
For those interested in America's early financial history, there is a room dedicated to Alexander Hamilton, the first treasury secretary.
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William caught the secretary, who had known Bridey since she was a child, watching them across the room.
But the foreign secretary William Hague -who was in Brussels during the negotiations, though not in the room with David Cameron - saw the British demands as the 'minimum' the UK would settle for.
In an interview in August Maude outlined one example where he said a permanent secretary's behaviour was "designed to give a signal to all the officials in the room that they needn't bother about what Francis Maude wanted".
Rice, however, told reporters she couldn't imagine how the Syrian ambassador, who wasn't in the room when Annan was speaking, could characterize accurately what the former U.N. secretary-general said.
During my last tour as secretary of defense, I found it not uncommon to walk into meetings in the White House Situation Room and see more than a dozen people packed in.
Following a briefing from FBI Director Mueller, Attorney General Holder, Secretary Napolitano, and homeland security advisor Lisa Monaco, President Obama went to the Brady Press Briefing Room to update Americans on developments in Boston, following two explosions at the finish line of the Boston Marathon on Monday afternoon.
Economic Affairs Secretary Arvind Mayaram said the government believes the economic slowdown is bottoming out and that easing wholesale inflation does provide room for the central bank to cut interest rates.
While his choices for secretary of state, defence secretary and CIA director will have separate hearings, it would actually be more instructive to put them all in one room since, in today's world, national security is the ultimate team sport.
At one of the most critical negotiating sessions, involving key leaders, U.S. President Obama sat next to British Prime Minister Brown, with UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon a few seats down, and a number of other heads of government gathered in the room.
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