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		<title>Transition Lessons: Pre- and Post-Election</title>
		<link>http://transition2008.wordpress.com/2008/05/06/transition-lessons-pre-and-post-election/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2008 12:09:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Kamensky</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Martha Kumar]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Scholars have studied presidential transitions over the past 40 years, which I’ve reflected in several earlier blog posts. While it might seem to be an obscure niche of scholarship, their efforts have been vitally important every 4 to 8 years. What have they learned that could be helpful to the upcoming transition?
Dr. Martha Kumar and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>National Security During Transition</title>
		<link>http://transition2008.wordpress.com/2008/04/29/national-security-during-transition/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2008 18:30:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Kamensky</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Transition 2008]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[presidential transition]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[CRS]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Frances Townsend]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Homeland Security]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[John Rollins]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[national security]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Last week the Congressional Research Service released a report noting: “A presidential transition is a unique time in America and holds . . . a possible risk to the nation’s security interests.” It cites Frances Townsend, who used to be President Bush’s homeland security advisor, as saying that Al Qaeda targeted terror attacks around the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>GSA Role in Transition</title>
		<link>http://transition2008.wordpress.com/2008/04/22/gsa-role-in-transition/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Apr 2008 14:15:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Kamensky</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Transition 2008]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[presidential transition]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[David Bibb]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[GSA]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[NAPA]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[National Archives]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[OPM]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[“Who’s in charge of a transition?  Nobody.  There’s no government-wide standard on how to do it,” says David Bibb, deputy administrator of the General Services Administration (GSA), and the career senior executive designated to help organize the administrative support for the upcoming presidential transition effort.
 
Bibb, who spoke at a forum held at the National Academy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lesson on the Powers to Lead</title>
		<link>http://transition2008.wordpress.com/2008/04/14/lesson-on-the-powers-to-lead/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Apr 2008 21:32:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Kamensky</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Transition 2008]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[presidential transition]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Joseph Nye]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Michael Hais]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[millennial]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Morley Winograd]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Last week I had an opportunity to listen to an interesting presentation.  Dr. Joseph Nye,  the former dean of the JFK School at Harvard, spoke on his new book, “The Powers to Lead,“ at a breakfast seminar sponsored by the Council for Excellence in Government.  
He said he wrote his book based on a “distillation of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Think Tanks and Other Players - Transition 2008 (Part II)</title>
		<link>http://transition2008.wordpress.com/2008/04/08/think-tanks-and-other-players-transition-2008-part-ii/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Apr 2008 15:29:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Kamensky</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Transition 2008]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[Brookings]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Deloitte]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This blog continues the inventory started last week of what different groups are doing in preparation for the Presidential Transition and the next Administration. . . . I’ll provide updates periodically.
 
Think Tank Players (continued)
 
Brookings Institution.  Brookings provided an update.  In addition to the Patterson revision of his White House Staff book, it says it will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Think Tanks and Other Players: 2008 (Part I)</title>
		<link>http://transition2008.wordpress.com/2008/04/01/think-tanks-and-other-players-2008-part-i/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2008 17:19:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Kamensky</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Transition 2008]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[government]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[presidential transition]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This is a start of an inventory of who is doing what in terms of developing management advice and support to the incoming President.  Since a mix of efforts undertaken by various think tanks and other groups in 2000 helped create a useful bridge in that transition, hopefully similar efforts are underway in 2008. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Transition: Role of Think Tanks in 2000</title>
		<link>http://transition2008.wordpress.com/2008/03/24/transition-role-of-think-tanks-in-2000/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Mar 2008 20:43:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Kamensky</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[AEI]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Brad Patterson]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Brookings]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[CEG]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[GAO]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Heritage Foundation]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Martha Kumar]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[performance]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Pew]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Prune Book]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Here’s where this becomes a true blog.  I know only part of the story and hope that you can add what you know to what happened, or correct what I remember! . . . . the full story is more complex than what I know without doing a lot more research, so this is a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Transition 2000:  George W. Bush</title>
		<link>http://transition2008.wordpress.com/2008/03/17/transition-2000-george-w-bush/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Mar 2008 20:48:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Kamensky</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Transition 2008]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[presidential transition]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Clay Johnson]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[George Bush]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[John P. Burke]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[While president-elect George W. Bush’s transition was delayed almost a month because of the uncertainty of the election outcome, historian John P. Burke rates his transition as probably one of the most effective in modern times.  This was not only because of effective prior planning by the president-elect and the relative absence of infighting among [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Transition 1992:  Bill Clinton</title>
		<link>http://transition2008.wordpress.com/2008/03/11/transition-1992-bill-clinton/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Mar 2008 13:09:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Kamensky</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Transition 2008]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[presidential transition]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Al From]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Bill Clinton]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Ed Riley]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[John P. Burke]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Mickey Kantor]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Vernon Jordon]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Warren Christopher]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Planning efforts for Bill Clinton’s presidential transition started early, but most observers felt it went awry almost immediately and that this impeded his ability to effectively act on his agenda once in office.  It took almost six months after the Inauguration for things to come together.  Historian John Burke concluded: “. . . the transition [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Transition 1988:  George H.W. Bush</title>
		<link>http://transition2008.wordpress.com/2008/03/03/transition-1988-george-hw-bush/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Mar 2008 02:54:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Kamensky</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Transition 2008]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[presidential transition]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Boyden Gray]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Chase Untermeyer]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Craig Fuller]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[George H.W. Bush]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[John P. Burke]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[John Sunnunu]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Robert Teeter]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[White House]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Reagan to Bush transition has been characterized as a “friendly takeover.”  This may have been true at the very top levels, but people I knew who were “on the ground level” in agencies saw it as being more difficult than a changeover between political parties.
Pre-Election
Transition planning began almost a year in advance; Chase [...]]]></description>
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