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Muriel Bowser speaks at a press conference at the National Press Club after winning the Washington, D.C. mayoral democratic primary, Washington, D.C., Wednesday, April 2, 2014. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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Muriel Bowser speaks at a press conference at the National Press Club after winning the Washington, D.C. mayoral democratic primary, Washington, D.C., Wednesday, April 2, 2014. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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Muriel Bowser speaks at a press conference at the National Press Club after winning the Washington, D.C. mayoral democratic primary, Washington, D.C., Wednesday, April 2, 2014. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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Muriel Bowser, right, is introduced by Council Member Anita Bonds (D-At Large), center, before speaking at a press conference at the National Press Club after winning the Washington, D.C. mayoral democratic primary, Washington, D.C., Wednesday, April 2, 2014. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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Muriel Bowser, right, is introduced by Council Member Anita Bonds (D-At Large), second from left, before speaking at a press conference at the National Press Club after winning the Washington, D.C. mayoral democratic primary, Washington, D.C., Wednesday, April 2, 2014. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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Muriel Bowser, center, speaks with Council Member Anita Bonds (D-At Large) before speaking at a press conference at the National Press Club after winning the Washington, D.C. mayoral democratic primary, Washington, D.C., Wednesday, April 2, 2014. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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Muriel Bowser arrives to speak at a press conference at the National Press Club after winning the Washington, D.C. mayoral democratic primary, Washington, D.C., Wednesday, April 2, 2014. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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Muriel Bowser arrives to speak at a press conference at the National Press Club after winning the Washington, D.C. mayoral democratic primary, Washington, D.C., Wednesday, April 2, 2014. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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Associated Press CEO Gary Pruitt says at the National Press Club that the fallout from the Justice Department's seizure of AP phone records has "intimidated both official and nonofficial sources from speaking" to reporters.

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Associated Press CEO Gary Pruitt, a First Amendment lawyer, will "outline ways to protect newsgathering against government interference" when he speaks Wednesday at the National Press Club. (Associated Press)

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**FILE** Gen. David Petraeus makes his exit following a Sept. 12, 2007, press conference on the current conditions in Iraq, at the National Press Club in D.C. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)

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Louis Armstrong and wife Lucille are shown with National Press Club President Vernon Louviere and wife Jean, in Washington on Jan. 29, 1971. A recording of Armstrong playing his trumpet for one of the last times is being released to the public for the first time. (Associated Press)

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San Diego Mayor Jerry Sanders spoke at the National Press Club Monday about the progress his city has made over the past few years. (Photo courtesy of the mayor's office)

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Ted Leonsis, majority owner of the Washington Capitals, Wizards, Mystics and Verizon Center, spoke at the National Press Club on Wednesday. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)

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BARBARA L. SALISBURY/THE WASHINGTON TIMES NASA Administrator Charles F. Bolden downplayed fears that this week's final space shuttle launch marks the end of American dominance in space during a speech Friday at the National Press Club. "We are not ending human space flight," he said. "We are recommitting ourselves to it."

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Grover G. Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform is scheduled to join with NAACP officials and business and education leaders at National Press Club to discuss an alternative way of dealing with nonviolent felons, rather than just incarcerating them. (The Idaho Statesman via Associated Press)