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The progress of Barack Obama's transition was monitored by an NBC News opinion poll: "Obama may have a very long honeymoon not the normal hundred days," political director Chuck Todd opined, as the President-elect registered high approval ratings and his predecessor record low ones. "The country gets that the problems are big and that everybody is in this together." NBC's Savannah Guthrie offered some name-mentioning about Obama's green team. Steven Chu, a Nobel Prize winning physicist, is in line for Secretary of Energy. CBS' White House correspondent Jim Axelrod looked forward to the inauguration of a son of Africa. He visited the National Archives to check the accounting books for the workers who built the White House 200 years ago. They were identified by their first name and the initial "N" for negro. "The slave owners were paid for the services of their slaves just as they were paid for the services of their horses or their wagons," archivist Reginald Washington told him.
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