The Note's Must-Reads

November 12, 2008— -- 2008: ABC NEWS VIDEOS:

"The Auto Industry Needs the White House" LINK

2008: PRESIDENT-ELECT OBAMA AND THE WHITE HOUSE TRANSITION:

Associated Press' Anne Gearan: "Obama Taps Veteran Dems for DoD, State Handovers" LINK

ABC News' George Stephanopoulos: "Obama Advisers Push $500 Billion Stimulus" LINK

ABC News' Rick Klein: "Obama White House to Marshal Online Army" LINK

USA Today's Fredreka Schouten: "Obama sets strict rules on lobbyists during transition" LINK

USA Today's Kathy Kiely and David Jackson: "World leaders reach out to Obama team" LINK

The Los Angeles Times' Carla Hall and Marjorie Miller: "Obama's election: a turning point in the perception of blacks?" LINK

The Los Angeles Times' Janet Hook and Peter Nicholas: "Barack Obama is looking more like a realist" LINK

The Los Angeles Times' Alana Semuels: "Americans clamoring for all things Obama" LINK

The Los Angeles Times' Howard Witt: "Gun sales up since election" LINK

The New York Times' Steven Erlanger: "After Breakthrough, Europe Looks in Mirror - As Europeans ask if there could be a French, British, German or Italian Obama, everyone knows the answer is no, not anytime soon." LINK

The New York Times' Helene Cooper and Jeff Zeleny: "Obama's Transition Team Restricts Help of Lobbyists" LINK

The New York Times' Peter Baker: "World Leaders at Nation's Doorstep, but Next President Isn't Taking Meetings" LINK

The Washington Post's Peter Finn: "Guantanamo Closure Called Obama Priority" LINK

The Washington Post's Michael D. Shear: "Obama Team Moves to Keep Its Distance From Lobbyists" LINK

The Washington Post's Walter Pincus and Karen DeYoung: "Top Two Officials In U.S. Intelligence Expect to Lose Jobs - Obama Silent Amid Conflicting Advice" LINK

The Washington Post's N.C. Aizenman: "Immigrant Advocates Reach Out To Obama - Coalition Appears in D.C. To Press Agenda, Events" LINK

The Washington Post's Al Kamen: "Latinos and the Obama Cabinet" LINK

The Washington Post's Robin Shulman: "B-Rock Is in the House - Hip-Hop Artists Lay Down Their Love for the President-Elect" LINK

The Politico's Jonathan Martin: "Obama faces less pressure for diverse Cabinet" LINK

The Politico's Carrie Budoff Brown: "Podesta promises 'strictest' ethics rules - Lobbyists will not be able to do transition work in their area of expertise if they lobbied in the past 12 months." LINK

The Politico's Jen Dimascio: "Anti-war camp wants Gates out" LINK

The Politico's Kenneth P. Vogel: "Obama likely to escape campaign audit" LINK

The Wall Street Journal's Christopher Cooper: "Obama To Fill Transition Team Using New Ethics Code" LINK

The Boston Herald's Dave Wedge: "Barack Obama's Car Could Fuel More Problems" LINK

Bloomberg's Jonathan D. Salant: "Obama's Ethics Rules Won't Ban Big Fundraisers from Transition" LINK