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Tonight I’ll be joining MSNBC Countdown host Keith Olbermann near the top of the hour, around 8:05 pm EST, for a discussion of President Obama’s Nuclear Posture Review. There is a lot of news today.

This morning, I spent a couple of hours watching Richard Holbrooke interact with his interagency team before, during and after an all hands SRAP (Office of the Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan) meeting at the State Department. Holbrooke is good to his people — affirming, serious but on their side.

(Photo Credit: Maxually’s Photostream) This is a guest note by Anya Landau French, director of the New America Foundation/U.S.-Cuba Policy Initiative. This post originally appeared at The Havana Note. You have to hand it to Amb. Roger Noriega, former U.S.

Despite living outside of the Beltway Bubble, Talking Points Memo creator/editor/blogger extraordinaire Josh Marshall has had a profound impact on the DC political scene for the last 10 years.

The White House has announced that it will delay a Treasury Department report reviewing whether China is manipulating its currency. This delay is likely tied to three goals of the US. First, the US wants to stop the slide in US-China relations.

Happy Easter everyone. I’ve been enjoying the day reading Charles Kupchan‘s excellent new book titled How Enemies Become Friends: The Sources of Stable Peace. As far as I’m concerned, this is one of the real must reads of this season.

I am catching up on some work today that is keeping me from the blog, but I wanted to share this photo of a striking mural painted by Stevan Dohanos in the Alvaro de Lugo Post Office in Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas. Happy Easter to those into resurrection, coconut cake, rabbits and eggs.

Today, the Huffington Post sent out a clip of an interesting essay by former IMF Chief Economist Simon Johnson challenging Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner’s take on financial reform. The essay also appeared at Johnson’s must read personal blog, Baseline Scenario.

The communications team at the White House has an extremely difficult job — and I admire how hard Ben Rhodes, Bill Burton, Tommy Vietor, and of course Robert Gibbs and others work to connect the President’s policy direction with a communications effort that furthers the Obama agenda.