WASHINGTON (CNN) – President Barack Obama used his first prime-time news conference to push Congress to approve his administration's economic stimulus plan, saying only the federal government can break the "vicious cycle" now gripping the U.S. economy.
WASHINGTON (CNN) - When Robert Gibbs was getting ready to face the White House press corps for his first official briefing, his colleagues spent a couple of weeks during the presidential transition putting him through a boot camp of sorts.
Gibbs recalled that there were "at least eight" mock briefings where fellow Obama aides - as well as former Clinton White House press secretaries like Joe Lockhart - pretended to be reporters firing questions at him so he would be ready.
A sign of a White House that leaves little to chance, but Gibbs said Monday that President Obama actually did very little preparation to get ready for his first prime-time news conference in the East Room.
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