Videos of president-elect Obama and Gov. Bill Richardson
Well, it looks like we got the video-thingy problem solved from our original Obama announcement post here.
So here, a day late but still free of charge, are the two videos involving the appointment of New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson to become president-elect Barack Obama's secretary of Commerce.
The first video here is a brief description of the news event in Chicago on Dec. 3. Click on the "Read more" line below to see WGN-TV's full 17-minute coverage of the announcement, including the beardless Richardson's remarks and a few questions from the media to Obama.
--Andrew Malcolm
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Andrew Malcolm's immigrant parents repeatedly stressed the importance of active participation in a democracy. Early lessons included learning the alphabetical list of states by watching televised roll calls of national political conventions. That childhood exposure led to a lifelong fascination with politics, including 40-plus years of covering them and a brief stint practicing them as press secretary to Laura Bush in 1999-2000. A veteran foreign and national correspondent, Malcolm served on the Times Editorial Board and was a Pulitzer finalist in 2004. He is the author of 10 nonfiction books and father of four.
Johanna Neuman is a veteran Washington correspondent for both The Los Angeles Times and USA Today, having covered presidents and politics as far back as Ronald Reagan. A former president of the White House Correspondents Assn., she authored a book on media and foreign policy, “Lights, Camera, Wars.” Most recently she was co-author of the 
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