Wednesday, November 5, 2008 4:00 AM
Top Transition Stories - 11/5
A roundup of today's top stories from across the Web:
•
Barack Obama "will take office in 76 days, but the moves he begins making tomorrow
will immediately begin to define his presidency," the
Washington Post reports. "He is expected to name a
White House chief of staff in the next day or two, and the clear front-runner is
Rep.
Rahm Emanuel, his longtime friend and ally from Chicago."
• Obama "has a transition operation well under way to enable him to unveil
selections for positions such as Treasury Secretary and Secretary of State
soon,"
Reuters reports.
• "Whoever" Obama "names to replace Treasury Secretary
Henry Paulson will be particularly important since the federal
government has already taken unprecedented steps to intervene in the financial
markets,"
CNNMoney.com reports.
• "No president since before" Obama "was
born has ascended to the Oval Office confronted by the accumulation of seismic
challenges awaiting him," the
New York Times reports. "Historians grasping for
parallels point to
Abraham Lincoln taking office as the nation
was collapsing into Civil War, or
Franklin D. Roosevelt
arriving in Washington in the throes of the Great Depression."
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