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Margaret Talev covers the White House. She joined the McClatchy Washington Bureau in 2005, covering Congress and national politics. Before that, she covered California politics, including the 2003 recall election and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's first year in office, for The Sacramento Bee. She previously reported for the Los Angeles Times, where she was part of a team named as Pulitzer finalists in 2001 for breaking news coverage of the crash of Alaska Airlines Flight 261. She has also covered Florida politics for The Tampa Tribune. In 2008, she, along with Greg Gordon and Marisa Taylor, won a McClatchy ``Presidents Award and Scripps Howards Raymond Clapper Memorial Award for Washington reporting for exposing the Bush administrations politicization of the Justice Department.
The tightly scheduled trip yielded few concrete accomplishments for Obama. No global warming deal. No movement on a South Korea free trade package. No progress with China on disputes over its currency valuation. Obama and his advisers are calling the trip a success anyway, because of their higher-altitude goals. » read more
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