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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It was from there the president shifted to the president-elect.
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".
That's why the president-elect is in the process of finding the best technicians who can use his policy tools.
He says the president-elect would be the first to agree with him, not that he doesn't see Barack Obama's victory as progress.
He has a reputation for working with leaders of both parties and worked closely with Obama when the president-elect was in the Senate.
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.
For now, the president-elect is handling the situation graciously.
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.
Evans, the manager of Bush's presidential campaign, was tapped by the president-elect December 20 for the Commerce post, where, should he be confirmed, he will be charged with overseeing domestic commerce, international trade agreements, import and export levels, fisheries policy, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the Census Bureau and the National Weather Service.
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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.
The South Dakota Democrat is serving as Obama's chief adviser on health care policy during the president-elect's transition to the White House.
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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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 main opposition party, the Grand National Party, has vowed to oppose Mr. Kim's choice of prime minister, Kim Jong-pil, who belongs to the president-elect's electoral allies, the United Liberal Democrats.
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.
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