Bill Novelli

BILL NOVELLI

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Bill Novelli serves as Executive Director and CEO of AARP. AARP has over 39 million members and is the leading nonprofit, nonpartisan membership organization for people aged 50 and over in the United States. Before joining AARP in 2000, Novelli was President of the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, and the Executive Vice President of CARE. Novelli comes from a background in public relations, and co-founded one of the world’s largest public relations agencies, Porter Novelli. Novelli was educated at the University of Pennsylvania and Penn’s Annenberg School for Communication. He has taught marketing management in the University of Maryland’s M.B.A program. He lives in Maryland with his wife.

Ideas recorded on: 9/27/07

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Re: Whom would you like to interview and what would you ask?

12/17/2007

Description: Why can't the President and Congress fight fair and square?

Transcript: Oh what a hard question. That’s a terrific question. I would like to interview three people. I’d like to put three people in the room at one . . . at one time: the Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi; Harry Reid, the majority leader in the Senate; and President Bush. And I’d like to . . . I’d like to say to them, you know, “When I was a kid I had a favorite aunt – Aunt Jay. And she’d come into the room, and the cousins would all be smacking each other around, and Aunt Jay would say, ‘Now fight nice.’” And I would like to say to Nancy, and Harry, and George, “Why can’t you fight nice?”

Recorded on: 9/27/07