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President Obama holds his first White House news conference in eight months on Wednesday. He's expected to speak about his re-election, the impending "fiscal cliff" and negotiations with Congress, as well as the resignation of CIA Director David Petraeus and questions surrounding General John Allen, commander of NATO forces in Afghanistan. We'll carry live NPR coverage of the president's remarks and questions from the White House press corps.

Scott McClellan was the White House Press Secretary from July 2003 to April 2006, the longest serving press secretary under George W. Bush. He left that post, disillusioned and frustrated, and went on to write a book about his experience. It’s called “What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception.”