With a flurry of action on health care, taxes and the border wall to show just how much he has done in the first 100 days — amplified by a White House program of first-100-days briefings, first-100-days receptions, a first-100-days website and a first-100-days rally.
The president-elect has also reportedly taken the unprecedented step of requesting security clearance for Kushner to attend top-secret presidential briefings, the first one of which was on Tuesday.
He insisted the event is a "benchmark of safety", with safety briefings, marshals, first aid points and support vehicles".
Fleischer's televised briefings, from his first Q.
Some reports have suggested that the first briefings to Congress took place in late 2001, before the law took effect.
Meanwhile, Bush yesterday continued a series of highly visible briefings and meetings, first with military commanders and later with Iraqi Vice President Tariq al-Hashemi.
A Pentagon spokesman said the decision to halt the briefings, which was first reported on Friday by Stars and Stripes, was made by Robert Hastings, principal deputy assistant secretary of defense for public affairs.
"What made you think, even when you took over and got these first briefings, given the history of Al Qaeda and its successful attacks on Americans, that we had the luxury even of seven months before we could make any kind of response, much less three years?" Slade Gorton, a Republican member of the commission and a former senator from Washington, asked Mr. Rumsfeld.
He said he would be receiving his first briefings from public servants on Sunday, in order to begin implementing policy changes.
To date, NPR's other voice apps have included news briefings, like Up First, News Now and Story of the Day (plus its variations like World Story of the Day; Business Story of the Day).
