Presidential Lecture Series

2008 Series • The American Presidency: Past, Present & Future

7:30 p.m. at the Institute ~ Free and Open to the Public

Straight from the Trail – Part 1
Tuesday February 26, 2008 • 7:30 p.m.
Political Journalists Panel
Steve Kraske, Kansas City Star political columnist
Jill Zuckman, Chicago Tribune congressional correspondent
Joel Mathis, RedBlueAmerica.com blue moderator/blogger
Reagan's Disciple
Thursday, February 28, 2008 • 7:30 p.m.
Lou Cannon, former award-winning Washington Post White House correspondent; foremost Reagan biographer
Carl Cannon, National Journal White House correspondent
The Cannons are co-authors of Reagan’s Disciple: George W. Bush’s Troubled Quest for a Presidential Legacy.
A book signing will follow lecture.
Straight from the Trail – Part 2
Thursday, March 6, 2008 • 7:30 p.m.
Political Journalists Panel
Geoff Earle, New York Post political reporter (Clinton trail)
Lynn Sweet, Chicago Sun-Times, Washington Bureau (Obama trail)
Tom Beaumont, Des Moines Register, chief political reporter
Ike's Final Battle
Tuesday March 11, 2008 • 7:30 p.m.
Kasey Pipes, political historian, former speech writer for the Bush White House, author of Ike’s Final Battle: The Road to Little Rock and the Challenge of Equality
A book signing will follow.

About the Presidential Lecture Series

Each February, the Institute creates a series of lectures that focus exclusively on the U.S. Presidency of yesterday, today and tomorrow, to include presidential campaigns.

Nationally known individuals – office holders, historians, top strategists, award-winning journalists and political operatives – have contributed to the success of this recognized series.

2007 Series • Running for President in 2008
with tribute to the late President Ford

Remembering President Gerald R. Ford
Richard Norton Smith, former Dole Institute Director and former Director of the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library
Blog to the Chief: The Impact of Political Blogs on the 2008 Elections
Blogger Panelists:
Jerome Armstrong, Erick-Woods Erickson, Patrick Hynes, Scott Johnson, Joan McCarter
Moderated by KU Prof. David D. Perlmutter
America’s Foremost Political Prognosticator
Charlie Cook, publisher of The Cook Political Report
Winning the Nomination
Panelists:
David Yepsen, Des Moines Register
Tom Rath, Republican political strategist
Jonathan Epstein, Democratic political strategist

2006 Series • The First Woman President

Carol Moseley-Braun, Former U.S. Senator, Ambassador, 2004 presidential candidate
Eleanor Clift, Newsweek and the McLaughlin Group
Pollsters
Kellyanne Conway
Celinda Lake
Campaign managers
Mary Beth Cahill, John Kerry’s 2004 presidential campaign
Tom Daffron, Elizabeth Dole’s 2000 presidential campaign
Jeanne Shaheen, fmr. Gov. (R – NH)
Jane Swift, fmr. Gov. (R-MA)
Barbara Lee, political activist

2005 Series • The Reagan Presidency

Lou Cannon, Reagan biographer
Jack Matlock, former U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union
Fmr. White House Advance Men
Jim Hooley
Andrew Littlefair
Gary Foster

2004 • Abraham Lincoln Series

2003 • Presidential Historians/Authors

2002 • Inaugural Series

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