Shirley Sherrod declined to accept a new job in the United States Department of Agriculture. Source
Day578/Aug25th/Wednesday: The President conducted a conference call on the state of the economy with United States Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, Council of Economic Advisors (CEA) Chair Christy Romer and National Economic Council (NEC) Director Larry Summers. The discussion focused on recent data reports, global markets and economic growth. The economic team provided an update on the next steps to keep the economy growing including assistance to small businesses and the extension of tax cuts to the middle class. Source
The President telephoned British Prime Minister David Cameron to offer his congratulations to the Prime Minister and Mrs. Cameron on the birth of their daughter. The President and Prime Minister also took the opportunity to compare notes on the Middle East. Source
The President continued to vacation at Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts.
Vice President Joe Biden held a Middle Class Working Families Task Force roundtable discussion with workers and small business owners at Pete's New Haven Style Apizza, a local restaurant in Washington, D.C. that benefited from the small business provisions in the Recovery Act. Source.
The United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) voted 3-2 to approve new rules that gave shareholders the power to nominate directors to corporate boards. "Shareholders should have a means of nominating candidates to the boards of the companies that they own," SEC Chairman Mary Schapiro said. "These rules reflect compromise and weighing competing interests." Source
United States Deputy Secretary of Defense William J. Lynn III, in an article published by Foreign Affairs, revealed that, in 2008, the U.S. Department of Defense suffered a significant compromise of its classified military computer networks that began when an infected flash drive was inserted into a U.S. military laptop at a base in the Middle East. The flash drive's malicious computer code, placed there by a foreign intelligence agency, uploaded itself onto a network run by the U.S. Central Command. That code spread undetected on both classified and unclassified systems, creating what amounted to a digital beachhead from which data could be transferred to servers under foreign control.
Day579/Aug26th/Thursday: The President proclaimed August 26, 2010, Women's Equality Day and called upon the people of the United States to celebrate the achievements of women and recommit to the goal of true gender equality. Source
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