Barack Obama actually said...

I'm not going to anticipate problems. I'm going to go in there with a spirit of bipartisanship and a sense that both the president and vario...

I didn't want to get into a Nancy Reagan thing about, you know, doing any seances.

In his first news conference, the president-elect vowed to meet the economic crisis head-on.

But critics also say he might have made missteps, including a reference to Nancy Reagan that later required an apology.