President-Elect Obama Meets With The Transition Economic Advisory Boar(Paul Volcker)

President-elect Barack Obama (4th-R) sits next to Vice President-elect Joe Biden (4th-L) as they meet with members of the Transition Economic Advisory Board including Chairman of the Board of Time Warner Richard D. Parsons (2nd-R), Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm (3rd-L), former Chairman of the Federal Reserve Paul Volcker (3rd-R) and Obama's newly appointed White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel (2nd-L-front) on November 7, 2008 at the Chicago Hilton in Chicago, Illinois. Obama will hold his first news conference after being elected President following the meeting. President-elect Obama has spent most of his week in meetings while assembling staff for his new administration.

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