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Who's At The Top Of Obama's Schedule?

NPR | By Madeleine Brand,

David Greene

Published November 6, 2008 at 1:00 PM EST

President-elect Barack Obama is appointing his transition team and beginning to form his cabinet. Madeleine Brand talks to David Greene, who is traveling with Obama. He tells us who Obama is meeting with and where he's traveling to over the next several days.

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Madeleine Brand is the host of NPRs newest and fastest-growing daily show, Day to Day. She conducts interviews with newsmakers (Iraqi politicians, US senators), entertainment figures (Bernardo Bertolluci, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Ricky Gervais), and the everyday people affected by the news (an autoworker laid off at GM, a mother whose son was killed in Iraq).

David Greene

David Greene is an award-winning journalist and New York Times best-selling author. He is a host of NPR's Morning Edition, the most listened-to radio news program in the United States, and also of NPR's popular morning news podcast, Up First.

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