“Liberty, Property and Eminent Domain: The Impact of Kelo”

Timothy Sandefur

Sandefur is a senior staff attorney at Pacific Legal Foundation, where he is a lead attorney in the Economic Liberty Project. The project works to prevent further government regulation of business. He has filed briefs in many eminent domain cases, including the landmark Kelo v. City of New London Supreme Court case.

Sandefur is author of the book “Cornerstone of Liberty: Property Rights in 21st Century America” (Cato Institute 2006). He is a contributing editor to Liberty magazine and has written articles for National Review Online, the Humanist, the San Francisco Chronicle, Regulation and the Washington Times. His published work covers many topics including eminent domain, economic liberty, evolution and creationism, and the legal issues of slavery and the Civil War.
Sandefur is a graduate of Chapman University School of Law and Hillsdale College. He is also a contributing editor of Liberty magazine, and has written for many
magazines and newspapers, including National Review Online, The Humanist, The San Francisco Chronicle, Regulation, and The Washington Times. In February, 2006, he became one of the youngest attorneys ever featured on the cover of California Lawyer magazine. He is a frequent guest on radio and television programs, including the Jim Lehrer News Hour, CNBC’s Street Signs, Now with David Brancaccio and CPSAN’s Book TV, and elsewhere.
Kelo v. City of New London was decided by the Supreme Court in 2005. The 5-4 decision ruled in favor of using eminent domain to transfer land from a private owner to further economic development in New London, Conn. This use of eminent domain was deemed appropriate by the court using the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment.

Colonel Billy Don Farris

Colonel Billy Don Farris was born on 15 July 1961 in Dallas, Texas. After graduation from the United States Military Academy on 25 May 1983, he was commissioned a Second Lieutenant of Infantry.

Col. Farris just returned from a 15-month deployment where he commanded the first brigade inserted into Baghdad under the surge initiative.

Farris was responsible for Sadr City until March 2008. Sadr City has been the site of a significant escalation of violence in recent months, with direct fire attacks on the green zone and the ever complicated political evolution of local leadership.

He recently served as the G3 Director of Plans for XVIII Airborne Corps and has held a variety of command and staff positions in the 82nd Airborne Division to include Company Commander, A/2-504 PIR; Battalion Commander, 1-505 PIR; and Division G3.

He holds a Master of Military Arts and Sciences from the United States Army Command and General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas and served as an Army Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

He has served in Operation Just Cause, Operation Desert Shield/Storm, and two tours in Operation Iraqi Freedom.
His awards and decorations include the Bronze Star (with 2 oak leaf clusters), Combat Infantryman Badge, Master Parachutist Badge (with bronze star), Ranger Tab and Air Assault Badge.

His previous assignments include the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), Fort Campbell, Kentucky, 1984-1987; 2nd Infantry Division, Camp Casey, Korea, 1987-1988; 82nd Airborne Division, Fort Bragg, North Carolina, 1988-1992; Joint Readiness Training Center, Fort Polk, Louisiana, 1992-1994; Southern European Task Force (SETAF), Vicenza, Italy, 1995-1998; XVIII Airborne Corps and 82nd Airborne Division, Fort Bragg, North Carolina, 1998-2001; Joint Readiness Training Center, Fort Polk, Louisiana, 2001-2002; 82nd Airborne Division and XVIII Airborne Corps, Fort Bragg, North Carolina, 2003-until present.

Tom Brokaw

Tom Brokaw was anchor and managing editor of the NBC Nightly News for 21 years before stepping down in December, 2004. He continues to report as a special correspondent, produce long-form documentaries and provide expertise during breaking news events for NBC News.

Brokaw has received numerous honors, including the Edward R. Murrow Lifetime Achievement award, the Emmy award for Lifetime Achievement and he was inducted as a fellow into the prestigious American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In addition, he has received the Records of Achievement award from The Foundation for the National Archives; the Association of the U.S. Army honored him with their highest award, the George Catlett Marshall Medal, first ever to a journalist; and he was the recipient of the West Point Sylvanus Thayer award, in recognition of devoted service to bringing exclusive interviews and stories to public attention.

Brokaw’s long-form documentaries for NBC News, “Tom Brokaw Reports,” have tackled such diverse topics as literacy, affirmative action, drunk driving, corporate scandals, immigration policies, and race. In addition to these reports, he has collaborated with NBC News’ Peacock Productions for Discovery’s Emmy-winning documentary Global Warming: What You Need to Know with Tom Brokaw, and History Channel’s two-hour documentary, 1968 with Tom Brokaw, in December 2007.

He has an impressive series of additional “firsts,” including the first exclusive U.S. one-on-one interview with Russian President Mikhail Gorbachev, earning an Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award. Brokaw was the first and only anchor to report from the scene the night the Berlin Wall fell, and was the first American anchor to travel to Tibet to report on human-rights abuses and to conduct an interview with the Dalai Lama.

Brokaw’s insight, ability and integrity have earned him other numerous awards for his journalistic achievements, including several Emmy, Overseas Press Club and National Headliner awards in addition to his two Peabody and duPont awards. In 2003, NBC Nightly News was honored with the prestigious Edward R. Murrow Award for Best Newscast, representing the program’s fourth consecutive win in this category.

Brokaw with John Chancellor on an NBC News set in 1981 The NBC News anchor also has a distinguished record as a political reporter. He has covered every presidential election since 1968 and was NBC’s White House correspondent during the national trauma of Watergate. From 1984 to 2004, Brokaw anchored all of NBC’s political coverage, including primaries, national conventions and election nights, and moderated nine primary and/or general election debates. Complementing his distinguished broadcast journalism career, Brokaw has written articles, essays and commentary for several publications including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, Newsweek, Time, The New Yorker, Men’s Journal, Sports Illustrated, Life, National Geographic, Outside and Interview.

In 1998 Brokaw became a best selling author with the publication of The Greatest Generation. Inspired by the mountain of mail he received from his first book, Brokaw wrote The Greatest Generation Speaks in 1999. His third book, An Album of Memories, was published in 2001.

In November 2002, Brokaw’s fourth best-selling book, A Long Way from Home, a reflective look about growing up in the American Heartland, was published. In his fifth best-selling book, BOOM! Voices of the Sixties, Brokaw shares a series of remembrances and reflections of the time based on his experiences and over 50 interviews with a wide variety of well known artists, politicians, activists, business leaders, and journalists, as well as lesser known figures, including a daughter of a former Mississippi segregationist governor, Vietnam veterans, civil rights activists, health care pioneers, environmentalists, and war protesters. Brokaw began his journalism career in 1962 at KMTV in Omaha, Nebraska. He anchored the late evening news on Atlanta’s WSB-TV in 1965 before joining KNBC-TV in Los Angeles. He was hired by NBC News in 1966 and from 1976-1981 he anchored NBC News’ Today program.

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South Carolina First Lady Jenny Sanford

First Lady Jenny Sanford was born and raised in Winnetka, Illinois and has a bachelor’s degree in finance from Georgetown University. After college, she worked for the investment banking firm Lazard Freres & Co in New York from 1984 through 1990, including serving as vice president in mergers and acquisitions.

The Sanfords then moved from New York to the Charleston area where Mrs. Sanford balanced raising a family, managing her husband Mark’s political campaigns and being active in the non-profit community. In 1994, Mrs. Sanford managed her husband Mark’s successful campaign for Congress, the couple’s first foray into the political arena. Mrs. Sanford also managed his winning gubernatorial campaign in 2002, assisted him daily at the Statehouse during his first term as governor, and co-managed his successful reelection in 2006.

At the Governor’s Mansion, Mrs. Sanford has completely reorganized operations, resulting in significant savings to the taxpayers. With the help of the Mansion Commission and Foundation, Mrs. Sanford also oversaw the Lace House interior refurbishment project in 2003 and the home has now been successfully reopened for rental and public use –generating more than $150,000 in funds to support the historical properties on the Mansion Complex grounds.

Mrs. Sanford is passionate about the role that good nutrition and regular physical activity play in helping to prevent cancer and other chronic diseases. In 2005, the First Lady launched the Healthy SC Challenge – a results –based initiative designed to help South Carolinians quit smoking, eat healthier and start exercising.

Mrs. Sanford currently serves on the Hollings Cancer Center Advisory Committee at MUSC as well as the Site Advisory Council for Drayton Hall historical property in Charleston. She has served as a board member on other non-profit organizations including the Coastal Community Foundation and the MUSC Children’s Hospital Advisory Fund.

During her husband’s second term as governor, Mrs. Sanford plans to spend more time in her most important role as mother of their four sons – Marshall, Landon, Bolton and Blake.

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Bill Lacy has served as the Director of the Robert J. Dole Institute of Politics since 2004 and is now back at the Institute after taking a short break to work as the Presidential Campaign Manager of Former Senator Fred Thompson.

Before coming to the Dole Institute, Lacy had a twenty year career in Washington, D.C. as a campaign strategist. He served as White House Political Director and Deputy Assistant to President Reagan. He also served in senior roles in Bob Dole’s 1988 and 1996 presidential campaign and as a consultant to his 1992 Senate race.

Lacy was involved in every GOP presidential campaign from 1980-1996. Bill served as Political Director of the Republican Party in 1984, in charge of the Reagan re-elect voter registration and turnout programs. He ran California for George Bush in 1988, the last successful Republican presidential campaign there. Lacy consulted on a number of other successful campaigns, including former Senator Fred Thompson’s record win in Tennessee in 1994 and re-election in 1996.

Lacy has also served as Vice-chairman and CEO of the Sophie Mae Candy Company and saw first hand how legislation affects business. Lacy served on the Advisory Board of the 1988 Presidential Oral History project of the Lyndon Baines Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas. In 1989, he was selected to travel to Japan to study their political system and in 1990 traveled to Czechoslovakia to advise political parties on their first democratic elections in 50 years. Lacy was appointed a Fellow at the Institute of Politics at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard in 1991.

Lacy has done numerous interviews and appeared on the three major television networks and done cable shows like Crossfire and Tim Russert. He was selected as a Campaigns & Elections Magazine “mover and shaker” and was featured in the late John Kennedy Jr.’s inaugural issue of George magazine.

Winona LaDuke

Winona LaDuke is an internationally renowned activist working on issues of sustainable development renewable energy and food systems. She lives and works on the White Earth reservation in northern Minnesota, and is a two time vice presidential candidate with Ralph Nader for the Green Party.

As Program Director of the Honor the Earth, she works nationally and internationally on the issues of climate change, renewable energy, and environmental justice with Indigenous communities. And in her own community, she is the founder of the White Earth Land Recovery Project, one of the largest reservation based non profit organizations in the country, and a leader in the issues of culturally based sustainable development strategies, renewable energy and food systems.

In this work, she also continues national and international work to protect Indigenous plants and heritage foods from patenting and genetic engineering. In 2007, LaDuke was inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame, recognizing her leadership and community commitment. In 1994, LaDuke was nominated by Time magazine as one of America’s fifty most promising leaders under forty years of age. She has been awarded the Thomas Merton Award in 1996, Ms. Woman of the Year (with the Indigo Girls in l997) , and the Reebok Human Rights Award, with which in part she began the White Earth Land Recovery Project. The White Earth Land Recovery Project has won many awards-including the prestigious 2003 International Slow Food Award for Biodiversity, recognizing the organization’s work to protect wild rice from patenting and genetic engineering.

A graduate of Harvard and Antioch Universities, she has written extensively on Native American and environmental issues. She is a former board member of Greenpeace USA and is presently an advisory board member for the Trust for Public Lands Native Lands Program as well as a board member of the Christensen Fund. The author of five books, including Recovering the Sacred, All our Relations and a novel - Last Standing Woman, she is widely recognized for her work on environmental and human rights issues.

Adam Clymer

Adam Clymer has been keeping Americans informed about their government for more than four decades as one of the nation’s premiere political reporters. Having spent the last 26 years of his career as chief Washington correspondent for The New York Times covering Congress, the White House and presidential campaigns, Clymer established himself as one of the great political journalists of his generation.

Recipient of the American Political Science Association’s 2003 Carey McWilliams Award for distinguished political reporting and the 1993 Everett McKinley Dirksen Award for distinguished reporting on Congress, Clymer has authored books on Ronald Reagan and Edward Kennedy. The late Lars-Erik Nelson, former New York Daily News Washington correspondent and nationally-renowned journalist, called Clymer “one of a dying generation of absolutely straight shooters. There are others on the campaign trail that will put their own attitudes into a story. Clymer plays it straight.”

Born in New York City on April 27, 1937, Clymer earned his bachelor’s degree from Harvard in 1958 and did post-graduate work at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, on a Frank Knox Fellowship in 1959. He began his journalistic career in 1960, working as a reporter for the Virginian-Pilot in Norfolk, Virginia. After stints at the Baltimore Sun and the New York Daily News, Clymer joined the staff of The New York Times as a reporter and editor in 1977. He would rise to the posts of Washington editor, then chief Washington correspondent.

Clymer’s book, Edward M. Kennedy: A Biography, was based on years of interviews with Kennedy. In 1981, Clymer co-authored Reagan: The Man, the President with fellow New York Times journalists Hedrick Smith, Leonard Silk, Robert Lindsey, and Richard Burt.

Kasey S. Pipes

Ike’s Final Battle: The Road to Little Rock
and the Challenge of Equality

Kasey S. Pipes is an author and biographer. His first book, Ike’s Final Battle: The Road to Little Rock and the Challenge of Equality, was released in February 2007 and became an Amazon.com national bestseller. Kasey’s political writings have appeared in Politico, Realclearpolitics.com and World Magazine. He is also a special contributor to The Dallas Morning News. Previously, Kasey spent ten years in politics as a communications and policy advisor. In 2006, he served as chief campaign speechwriter to California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. Prior to that, he served President George W. Bush for five years. In 1999, he began writing speeches for the Bush for President Campaign. From 2001 to 2003 he wrote speeches in the Bush White House. In 2004, he was the chief author of the National Republican Party Platform.
Before joining President Bush’s staff, Kasey served as senior legislative assistant and director of communications for Congresswoman Kay Granger. He began his career as a college intern in the California office of former President Ronald Reagan.

Throughout his career, Kasey has written speeches and provided policy advice for other public figures including New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, Senator Bob Dole, Commerce Secretary Don Evans and Republican National Committee Chairman Ken Mehlman. On July 22, 2002, Navy Secretary Gordon England swore in Kasey as a commissioned officer in the United States Navy Reserve. He currently serves with the Navy’s NAVCO unit.
Pipes also serves on the AddRan College Board of Visitors at Texas Christian University and the Communities in Schools Board in Fort Worth. He is a senior research fellow at the Center for Building Community. A native of Fort Worth, Kasey now lives in his hometown with his wife, Lacie, and their son, Lincoln.

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Leon F. Litwack

To honor the forthcoming retirement of KU History Professor Bill Tuttle the Dole Institute of Politics hosted the first annual Tuttle Lecture.

Retired University of California—Berkeley Professor Leon Litwack, a specialist in the history of race in America, delivered the lecture "Fight the Power,"

Leon F. Litwack taught at the University of California at Berkeley from 1964 until his retirement in May 2007. He is the Alexander F. and May T. Morrison Professor of History Emeritus. He has also taught at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and as a visitor at the University of Mississippi (the Ford Foundation Professor of Southern Studies), the University of South Carolina, Louisiana State University, Moscow State University (Fulbright professor of American history)), Beijing University, the University of Helsinki, and the University of Sydney). He received his B.A (1951), M.A. (1952), and Ph.D. (1958) from the University of California, Berkeley, and served in the U.S. Army from 1953 to 1955. Among his books are The American Labor Movement (ed., 1962); North of Slavery: The Negro in the Free States, 1790-1860 (1961); Black Leaders of the Nineteenth Century (ed. with August Meier, 1988); Been in the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery (1980), which won the Pulitzer Prize and the American Book Award; and Trouble in Mind: Black Southerners in the Age of Jim Crow (1998). He contributed an essay to The Antislavery Vanguard (1965); Anonymous Americans (1971); Ethnic Notions: Black Images in the White Mind (1980); Advancing Art: Painting, Politics, and Cultural Confrontation at Mid-Century (1989); Past Perfect: History According to the Movies (1995); Ken Burns's Civil War (1995); Historians and Race: Autobiography and the Writing of History (1996); Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America (2000); a new edition of Jean Toomer's Cane (2000); and Camera Man's Journey: Julian Dimock's South (2002), among other works, and is a General Editor of The Harvard Guide to African American History (2001). He has produced a film, To Look for America: From Hiroshima to Woodstock (1971), and collaborated in producing a record, "Jailhouse Blues: Women's A Cappella Songs from the Parchman Penitentiary" (Rosetta Records, 1987). He has been the recipient of three Distinguished Teaching Awards at Berkeley. In 1986-87 he was President of the Organization of American Historians, in 1987 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and in 2008 he is president of the Southern Historical Association. He has consulted on numerous historical films, including "Berkeley in the Sixties," "Ethnic Notions," "Booker," "Freedom on My Mind," "The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow," "The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter," "Forever Activists: Stories from the Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade," and "Regret to Inform: Vietnam War Widows." He has also performed as an actor in Marc Blitzstein's "The Cradle Will Rock," a musical drama on the American labor movement, first produced in 1937, and revived in October 2005 by the University of California Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies.
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The annual Tuttle Lecture is co-sponsored by American Studies Program, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Hall Center for the Humanities, Office of Research and Graduate Studies, Office of the Chancellor, Office of the Provost, and the Dole Institute of Politics.
Prof. Tuttle has taught students about recent American history, race relations, and the social movements of the 1960s for more than four decades.
Tuttle is retiring from the University of Kansas after teaching American history to students for many years. His research interests include the civil rights movement and the social history of race in America.

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The American Presidency: Past, Present, and Future.

Straight From the Trail: Part II

Lynn Sweet is the Washington Bureau Chief for the Chicago Sun-Times. She writes a column and a blog for the paper. For the past year, she has been focusing on the 2008 presidential campaign.

In 2004, Sweet was a fellow at Harvard University’s Institute of Politics at the Kennedy School of Government. In 2002, as the violence between Israelis and Palestinians was deepening, she was sent to the region to cover the conflict. In 1995, Sweet broke the story on the perks the Clinton White House offered major donors. In 1990, Sweet was one of the first journalists in the U.S. to analyze political ads for accuracy.

She is a regular guest on MSNBC and other political shows. Sweet is a former president of the Washington Press Club Foundation and is a member of the Gridiron Club. Sweet has a master’s from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism. She received her undergraduate degree from the University of California at Berkeley after attending the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana.

Geoff Earle has covered politics in Washington DC since 1994. For the last nine months he has followed Hillary Rodham Clinton on the campaign trail for the New York Post, one of the nation’s largest circulation metropolitan daily newspapers. Prior to taking on the Clinton beat, he was an investigative reporter at The Post, covering homeland security, Congress, and the White House.
After graduating from the University of Michigan, Earle has covered the congressional leadership for The Hill, National Journal, and Congressional Quarterly. His freelance works have appeared in a variety of publications, including The Washington Post and the Chicago Tribune, and he has reported abroad from Germany and Indonesia. He has received fellowships and training awards from the American Council on Germany, Washington University, and Loyola University Law School, and has been a contributing writer for Congressional Quarterly’s Guide to U.S. Elections and Politics in America books.

Tom Beaumont has been The Des Moines Register’s chief political reporter since 2002 and has covered presidential politics nearly continuously during that time. He was the primary writer during the Register’s coverage of the 2004 Democratic caucus campaign and most recently led the coverage of the year-long campaign for the 2008 Democratic and Republican caucuses. During the 2008 campaign, Beaumont was a regular on the campaign trail, but also focused on far-reaching enterprise stories that looked deep into the candidates’ policy positions, statements and support networks. He has been a featured contributor to CNN, C-SPAN, MSNBC, Fox News and other national broadcast news outlets.

Before taking the political beat at the Register, Beaumont was a metro general assignment reporter from 1999 to 2002, focusing on development in Des Moines’ western suburbs, federal court and immigration. Beaumont began his career at The Southern Illinoisan in Carbondale, Ill., where he covered courts and politics from 1995 to 1999. Beaumont earned a bachelor’s degree in political science and a master’s degree in journalism from the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Roderick L. Bremby

Speaking about KDHE’s decision to reject permits for the building of two coal-fired power plants in southwest Kansas. Roderick L. Bremby serves as Secretary of the Kansas Department of Health and Environment. His background includes extensive work on community health issues and 17 years in municipal management. In his role as Secretary of KDHE, Bremby oversees the regulation of health and environmental entities in Kansas including child care centers, food service businesses, hospitals, laboratories, feedlots, landfills, and various other industries with environmental impacts. He works with the governor and state legislature to develop policies and regulations designed to improve the health of Kansans and the environmental condition of the state. In this position, Secretary Bremby also oversees programs dedicated to providing disease surveillance and prevention efforts, bioterrorism planning guidance, local and rural health assistance, health care and environmental information, and statewide health promotional campaigns.

Prior to his January 2003 appointment by Governor Kathleen Sebelius, Secretary Bremby served as a research assistant professor at the University of Kansas and as associate director of the Work Group on Health Promotion and Community Development. His work involved providing technical assistance, evaluation support and community research for community health initiatives. Secretary Bremby has been a consultant for a variety of organizations including, community coalitions, advocacy organizations, local government agencies, and the U.S. Agency for International Development (Strengthening Democracy in Uganda). Secretary Bremby served 10 years as the assistant city manager in Lawrence, Kan., where he was responsible for overseeing the budgeting process, police, fire and medical, public works, water, sewer, finance, information systems, and parks and recreation departments. Secretary Bremby holds a master’s degree in public administration from KU, where he completed an undergraduate degree in psychology and communication studies. He also completed postgraduate study at the Brookings Institution, The Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, and an executive development course at The Center for Creative Leadership. Secretary Bremby is a Kansas Health Foundation Fellow and a graduate of Leadership Forth Worth, Leadership Lawrence, and Leadership Kansas.

Secretary Bremby has received the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce Buford Watson Public Service Award, has been listed among the Outstanding Young Men of America, Who’s Who Among Black Americans, and Who’s Who in America. As a past recipient of the University of Kansas’ Rusty Leffel Concerned Student Award, the R. Scott Brooks Memorial Award, Secretary Bremby was inducted into Pi Alpha Alpha and Pi Sigma Alpha Honor Societies. Having served on numerous local, state and national boards and commissions, Secretary Bremby continues his involvement with the Lawrence Partnership for Children and Youth, a group working to promote community collaboration on behalf of the well being of children and youth by promoting America’s Promise.

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Presidential Lecture Series 2008

Reagan's Disciple
Journalists & Co-authors
Lou Cannon & Carl Cannon

Focusing on the George W. Bush administration with “Reagan’s Disciple,” featuring authors Lou and Carl
The father-son duo will discuss whether President Bush altered the conservative in America and reshaped Ronald Reagan conservatism. Both are co-authors of Reagan’s Disciple: George W. Bush’s Troubled Quest for a Presidential Legacy. Lou Cannon, kicked off the 2005 Presidential Lecture Series on the Reagan presidency, and is one of Reagan’s foremost biographers. Carl Cannon is an author and the White House correspondent for National Journal.

Washington Post Article: Reaching for a Place in History

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The American Presidency: Past, Present, and Future.
The series will feature four programs
This year's series will focus on a former president, the current occupant of the White House, and the trio of compelling major candidates running to succeed him.

Straight From the Trail: Part I

Jill B. Zuckman chief congressional correspondent of The Chicago Tribune. She has been covering national and congressional affairs for 16 years, including the last three presidential campaigns and every midterm election since 1994.
Upon joining The Tribune in September of 2000, Ms. Zuckman followed the presidential campaign and reported from Tallahassee during the Florida recount. Beginning in January of 2001, with the Senate’s 50-50 split, she focused on the balance of power in Congress and with the White House, examining the ramifications of the evenly divided chamber and the eventual shift to Democratic control. Her work during this period earned her the Everett Dirksen Award for Distinguished Coverage of Congress.

During the 2004 election, she covered Sen. John Kerry’s presidential campaign, traveling with him throughout the country. A 1987 graduate of Brown University and former editor-in-chief of The Brown Daily Herald, she got her start at The Milwaukee Journal where she covered the federal courts and federal law enforcement agencies. In 1990, she joined Congressional Quarterly’s Weekly Report. There, she was responsible for writing about housing, education and labor issues as they moved through Congress.

The Boston Globe hired Ms. Zuckman in 1994 to cover Congress. At that time, she followed Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole’s presidential campaign in 1996.

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Steve Kraske
He is the political correspondent for The Kansas City Star and host of Up to Date, a daily public-affairs program on public-radio station KCUR in Kansas City. He has covered numerous political conventions, Bob Dole’s 1996 run for the presidency and the quadrennial Iowa presidential caucuses. He has appeared on CNN’s Inside Politics and Capital Gang as well as National Public Radio. He has worked as a political analyst for Fox 4-TV in Kansas City. He was named one of the best state political reporters in the country by The Fix, the political blog of The Washington Post and was a 1992 Knight Journalism Fellow at Stanford University. Steve is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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Joel Mathis
Mathis is the “blue moderator” for RedBlueAmerica.com, a politics and culture website launched in January by Scripps. He blogs about current events daily, and co-writes a weekly op-ed newspaper column with his conservative counterpart, Ben Boychuk. Prior to his current position, Mathis spent eight years as a reporter and editor for the Lawrence Journal-World, winning an Online News Association award in commentary for his blog, “Cup O’ Joel.” He also led the team that won an Associated Press Managing Editor’s award for its multimedia reporting about the lingering environmental disaster caused by the mining industry in southeast Kansas. Mathis has also reported for The Marion County Record, The Parsons Sun and The Emporia Gazette. He is a graduate of Tabor College in Hillsboro, Kansas.

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Troy Duster
“What Does DNA Tell Us About Race?”

Dr. Troy Duster was raised on the south side of Chicago. His extraordinary grandmother, Ida B. Wells, was born a slave in 1862 in Mississippi, months before the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation. She became an editor and co-owner of The Free Speech and Headlight, a local African-American newspaper in Memphis, Tennessee and was among the first generation of writers to use investigative journalism.

Duster attended Northwestern University where he studied journalism and sociology. He continued his studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he earned a Master’s degree in sociology. He then went on to attain a Doctorate in sociology from Northwestern University.

From 1996-1998, Duster served as member and then chair of the joint NIH/DOE advisory committee on Ethical, Legal and Social Issues in the Human Genome Project. In 1999, he became a professor of sociology and the Director of the Institute for the History of the Production of Knowledge at New York University. He also holds an appointment as Chancellor’s Professor at the University of California, Berkeley. In 2003-2004, he served as chair of the Board of Directors of the Association of American Colleges and Universities. From 2004-2005, Duster served as the president of the American Sociological Association and is currently a member of the Board of Advisors of the Social Science Research Council. He is also the former Director of the American Cultures Center and the Institute for the Study of Social Change, both at the University of California, Berkeley. Duster is the co-author of Whitewashing Race: The Myth of a Color-Blind Society, which won the Benjamin Hooks Award and was a finalist for the C. Wright Mills Award in 2004. Among his other awards are a Guggenheim Fellowship at the London School of Economics; an honorary Doctor of Letters from Williams College; and the Dubois-Johnson-Frazier Award from the American Sociological Association. With his siblings, Duster has established the Ida B. Wells Foundation, which gives awards to journalists and researchers working in Wells’ tradition of writing and speaking out for civil rights, civil liberties, and social justice.

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Randal Jelks

Randal Jelks presented the 2008 Langston Hughes Lecture, “Rediscovering the Life of a Black Religious Intellectual: Benjamin Elijah Mays in the Making of the American Civil Rights Movement.

Jelks was the Langston Hughes Visiting Professor of American Studies at KU.

Doctor Randal Jelks was born in New Orleans and lived there until he was fourteen, whereupon he resided in Chicago until college.

Currently, Jelks is an Associate Professor in history at Calvin College and the Director of the African and African Diaspora Studies Program. He is a graduate of South Shore High School (Chicago), the University of Michigan (BA in History), McCormick Theological Seminary (Masters of Divinity) and Michigan State University (Ph.D. in History). In addition, he is an ordained clergy person in the Presbyterian Church (USA).
Mr. Jelks has published both scholarly and journalistic articles. His research and writing interests are in the area of African American Religious, Urban, and Civil Rights History. He has completed a book, titled “African Americans in the Furniture City: The Politics of Respectability and the Civil Rights Struggle in Grand Rapids, Michigan (2006, The University of Illinois Press). In addition, he is researching book on Dr. Benjamin Elijah Mays, President of Morehouse College (1940-1967) in Atlanta.
The tentative title is “Benjamin Elijah Mays: A Religious Rebel in the Jim Crow South” Most recently, Mr. Jelks had been named a Fellow at the National Humanities Center in Research Park Triangle, North Carolina for the academic year of 2006-2007.

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Military Bloggers and America’s Wars

As a follow-up to a successful program in early 2007 on political weblogs, the Dole Institute of Politics hosted a panel discussion featuring another dynamic and growing community on the internet: military blogs (also known as “milblogs”).

Blogs from the front lines in Iraq and Afghanistan have allowed readers on the home front to connect with real soldiers, contractors, and civilians who are serving their country, and forced the Pentagon to rush headlong into this 21st century medium. This discussion was moderated by William Allen White School of Journalism Associate Dean David Perlmutter, author of the books Visions of War and Blogwars. The panel will featured Charles J. “Jack” Holt, chief of New Media Operations for the Pentagon, and the leading military bloggers Ward Carroll, editor of Military.com and Milblog.com and John Donovan, lead blogger of Argghhh! The Home of Two of Jonah’s Military Guys. add: (audio difficulties)

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Michael Stanley Dukakis

Dukakis began his political career as an elected Town Meeting Member in the town of Brookline. He was elected chairman of his town’s Democratic organization in 1960 and won a seat in the Massachusetts legislature in 1962. He served four terms as a legislator, winning re-election by an increasing margin each time he ran.

In 1970 he was the Massachusetts Democratic Party’s nominee for Lieutenant-Governor and the running mate of Boston Mayor Kevin White in that year’s gubernatorial race which they lost to Republicans Frank Sargeant and Donald Dwight. Dukakis won his party’s nomination for governor in 1974 and beat Sargeant decisively in November of that year. Dukakis inherited a record deficit and record high unemployment and is generally credited with digging Massachusetts out of one of its worst financial and economic crises in history. But the effort took its toll, and he was defeated in the Democratic Primary in 1978 by Edward King.

Dukakis came back to defeat King in 1982 and was re-elected to an unprecedented third four-year term in 1986 by one of the largest margins in history. In 1986 his colleagues in the National Governors Association voted him the most effective governor in the Nation.

In 1988 Dukakis became the first Greek-American to be nominated for the presidency. He emerged from a strong Democratic field that included Senators Al Gore, Gary Hart and the Rev. Jesse Jackson. Dukakis won the Democratic nomination but was defeated by George H.W. Bush. Soon thereafter, he announced that he would not be a candidate for re-election as governor and served his final two years as governor at a time of increasing financial and economic distress in Massachusetts and the Northeast.

After leaving office in January 1991, Dukakis was a visiting professor at the University of Hawaii in the political science department and at the School of Public Health. While at the University of Hawaii, he taught courses in political leadership and health policy and led a series of public forums on the reform of the nation’s health care system.

Since then, there has been increasing public interest in Hawaii’s first-in-the nation universal health insurance system and the lessons that can be learned from it as the nation debates the future of health care in America.

Dukakis has taught in the senior executive program for State and Local managers at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He has also taught at Florida Atlantic University. His research has focused on national health care policy reform and the lessons that national policy makers can learn from state reform efforts. He has authored articles on the subject for the Journal of American Health Policy, the Yale Law and Policy Review, the New England Journal of Medicine, and Compensation and Benefits Management.

In addition, he co-taught with Professor Rochefort a graduate seminar in national health policy reform that included a series of public forums and an all-day conference that culminated in the publication of Insuring American Health for the Year 2000, a Northeastern University publication that has been distributed widely to health policy makers, legislators and others.

Today, Dukakis spends his time teaching, spending one semester a year at Northeastern University in Massachusetts and the other at the University of California, Los Angeles.

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Lieutenant General William B. Caldwell, IV

Commanding General, U.S. Army Combined Arms Center and Fort Leavenworth

Commandant, U.S. Army Command and General Staff College

Deputy Commanding General for Combined Arms, U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command Director, Joint Center for International Security Force Assistance

Lieutenant General Caldwell currently serves as the commander of the Combined Arms Center at Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas, the command that oversees the Command and General Staff College and 17 other schools, centers, and training programs located throughout the United States. The Combined Arms Center is also responsible for: development of the Army’s doctrinal manuals, training of the Army’s commissioned and noncommissioned officers, oversight of major collective training exercises, integration of battle command systems and concepts, and supervision of the Army’s Center for the collection and dissemination of lessons learned.

His prior deployments and assignments include serving as Deputy Chief of Staff for Strategic Effects and spokesperson for the Multi-National Force – Iraq, Commanding General of the 82nd Airborne Division; Senior Military Assistant to the Deputy Secretary of Defense; Deputy Director for Operations for the United States Pacific Command; Assistant Division Commander, 25th Infantry Division; Executive Assistant to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; Commander, 1st Brigade, 10th Mountain Division; a White House Fellow, The White House; Politico-Military Officer in Haiti during OPERATION RESTORE/UPHOLD DEMOCRACY; Assistant Chief of Staff for Operations, 3rd Brigade, 82nd Airborne Division during OPERATIONS DESERT SHIELD and DESERT STORM; and Chief of Plans for the 82nd Airborne Division during OPERATION JUST CAUSE in Panama.

Lieutenant General Caldwell’s decorations include the Distinguished Service Medal, the Defense Superior Service Medal (with two Oak Leaf Clusters), the Legion of Merit (with two Oak Leaf Clusters), the Bronze Star (with one Oak Leaf Cluster), and the Louisiana Cross of Merit.

Lieutenant General Caldwell graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1976. He earned Masters Degrees from the United States Naval Postgraduate School and from the School for Advanced Military Studies at the United States Army Command and General Staff College. Lieutenant General Caldwell also attended the John F. Kennedy, School of Government, Harvard University as a Senior Service College Fellow.

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NAVY CAPT. JIM WISE (ret.)
“The Navy Cross”

Author Capt. Wise, former naval aviator, intelligence officer and Vietnam vet discusses his newest book, “The Navy Cross”

Description
•Recognizes twenty-one Navy Cross recipients and their courageous feats from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan
•Reads like a Hollywood action film
•Celebrates heroic achievements by U.S. Sailors and Marines since World War I

This collection of profiles in courage highlights the Sailors and Marines awarded the U.S. Navy’s highest honor for valor, the Navy Cross. It is the first book to focus on the stories of those recognized for their heroic actions while serving in Iraq and Afghanistan—twenty-one in all, including a Marine sergeant who received his Cross on 19 January 2007. Unknown to most, they have been honored for putting their lives on the line to save others. The book also includes selected profiles of Navy Cross recipients from previous wars whose stories stand out as the best among an elite group. Coauthors James E. Wise and Scott Baron, whose previous collaboration cited exceptional women at war, wrote this book to call attention to those who have done extraordinary things to ensure the freedom of future generations of Americans.

The descriptions of bravery read like the scripts of Hollywood action films, but these are actual events about real people. Readers will be awestruck by the incredible courage shown by the Marines and Sailors during hellish firefights against the insurgents in Baghdad, Nasiriyah, Fallujah, Mazar-i-Sharif, and Kandahar. Yet the recipients remain modest about their actions, saying they were merely doing their duty—as would any other Marine or Sailor. Among the recent Navy Cross recipients included are Chief Petty Officers Stephen Bass and Britt Slabinski, both Navy SEALs, and the "Fallujah Seven" Marines: Capt. Brent Morel, Sgt. Willie L. Copeland III, 1st Sgt. Bradley Kasal, Sgt. Robert J. Mitchell, Cpl. Jeremiah Workman, Sgt. Jarrett Kraft, and Lance Cpl. Dominic D. Esquibel.

JAMES E. WISE Jr.
Former naval aviator, intelligence officer, and Vietnam veteran, retired from the U.S. Navy as a captain. His books include Stars in Blue and U-505: The Final Journey, among many others. He lives in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area.

SCOTT BARON
U.S. Army veteran of the Vietnam War and former law enforcement officer in California, is the author of They Also Served: Military Biographies of Uncommon Americans and coauthor, with Wise, of Women at War: Iraq, Afghanistan, and Other Conflicts.

Other Navy Institute Press Books by Navy Captain (ret.) Jim Wise

Soldiers Lost at Sea
Stars at War
Women at War

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ROBERT D. NOVAK
WASHINGTON COLUMNIST AND COMMENTATOR

Robert D. Novak was born February 26, 1931 in Joliet, Illinois. His first newspaper jobs were as a reporter for the Joliet Herald-News and the Champaign-Urbana Courier while attending the University of Illinois (1948-1952). Mr. Novak has a B. A. degree from Illinois and, in 1997, received the University’s distinguished alumnus award. Mr. Novak has also received honorary doctorates from Kenyon College and the University of Illinois, the University of St. Francis (Ill.) and Thomas More College.

Following service in the United States Army as a Lieutenant during the Korean War (1952-1954), Mr. Novak joined the staff of the Associated Press in Omaha, Nebraska. Later, he was transferred to Lincoln, Nebraska and from there to Indianapolis, Indiana, covering politics and the state legislature in both places. In 1957, the AP transferred him to Washington, DC where he began covering Congress.

Mr. Novak joined the Washington bureau of the Wall Street Journal in 1958 as its Senate correspondent and political reporter, becoming chief Congressional correspondent for the Journal in 1961.

On May 15, 1963, Mr. Novak teamed up with the late Rowland Evans, Jr., then Congressional correspondent for the New York Herald Tribune, to write “Inside Report”, a political column published four times a week. Since 1966, the Chicago Sun-Times has been the home newspaper to the column. On May 15, 1993, Mr. Evans retired from the column. Mr. Novak continues to write the column three times a week. The column is carried by over 150 newspapers through Creators Syndicate.

One of the longest running syndicated columns in the nation, “Inside Report” has always been based on hard reporting. For over a quarter of a century, both columnists not only crisis-crossed the nation regularly covering politics, but also traveled abroad to report wars, revolutions and international conferences around the globe.

Mr. Novak has covered great events and interviewed world leaders in every part of the world. His 1978 trip to China included an exclusive interview with Deng Tsiao-Peng, which opened the way for normalization of U.S. Chinese relations.

Mr. Novak produces a twice-monthly newsletter, the Evans-Novak Political Report. Mr. Novak has written for most of the nation’s periodicals.

Mr. Novak’s first book was Agony of the GOP: 1964. In collaboration with Rowland Evans, he has written Lyndon B. Johnson: The Exercise of Power, and The Reagan Revolution. In November, 1999, Mr. Novak’s most recent book, Completing the Revolution: A Vision for Victory in 2000, was published. His memoirs, The Prince of Darkness: 50 Years Reporting in Washington, were published in July.

For 25 years Mr. Novak was a commentator for the Cable News Network (CNN) and was co-executive producer of the “Capital Gang.” Currently, he is a commentator for Fox News and appears occasionally on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”

Mr. Novak was a Radford Visiting Professor of Journalism at Baylor University in 1987. He is the 2001 winner of the National Press Club’s “Fourth Estate: award for lifetime achievement in journalism.

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Third Parties in Two Party America

With polls showing voter frustration with “politics as usual,” the Dole Institute of Politics hosted a day of programming devoted to the discussion of third party alternatives to the Democratic and Republican Parties.

In this first program a panel of academic experts examined the history and potential for third party success in coming elections.

Participating in the program was: Lisa Disch, professor of political science at the University of Minnesota and author of The Tyranny of the Two-Party System.

John H. Aldrich, the Pfizer-Pratt university professor of political science at Duke University and author of Why Parties?

J. David Gillespie, professor of political science at the College of Charleston and author of Politics at the Periphery.

Bob Beatty, professor of political science at Washburn University and expert on Kansas’ own “three party” system.
Jonathan Earle, author of The Free Soil and Republican Parties in 19th Century America, and interim director of the Dole Institute will moderate the discussion.

The evening panel featured the first visit of former CBS News anchor Bill Kurtis, KU alumnus and host of numerous A&E crime shows, to the Institute since its dedication in 2003. This panel featured David Boaz, executive vice president of the libertarian Cato Institute; Unity ’08 founders and political veterans Doug Bailey and Gerald Rafshoon; Richard Winger of the Coalition for Free and Open Elections; and Micah Sifry, author of Spoiling for a Fight: Third Party Politics in America.

JULES WITCOVER

Jules Witcover has covered Washington and the political scene for more than half a century as a newspaper reporter and columnist, author of a dozen books on American politics and history and co-author five others. He has covered every presidential convention and campaign since 1960 and has written books about every presidential campaign since 1968. His political column is syndicated nationally by (Chicago) Tribune Media Services. He has reported from Washington for the Newhouse Newspapers, the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, the Washington Star and the Baltimore Sun. He is a U.S. Navy veteran and a graduate of Columbia College and the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism. He lives with his wife in Washington, DC, and has four children and two grandchildren. His latest book is "Very Strange Bedfellows: The Short and Unhappy Marriage of Richard Nixon and Spiro Agnew," published by Public Affairs Press.

Dole Leadership Prize Honoree JOHN R. LEWIS

Often called “one of the most courageous persons the Civil Rights Movement ever produced,” John Lewis has dedicated his life to protecting human rights, securing civil liberties, and building what he calls “The Beloved Community” in America. His dedication to the highest ethical standards and moral principles has won him the admiration of many of his colleagues on both sides of the aisle in the United States Congress.

Lewis was born the son of sharecroppers on February 21, 1940, outside of Troy, Alabama. He grew up on his family’s farm and attended segregated public schools in Pike County, Alabama. As a young boy, he was inspired by the activism surrounding the Montgomery Bus Boycott and the words of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., which he heard on radio broadcasts. As a student at Fisk University, Lewis organized sit-in demonstrations at segregated lunch counters in Nashville, Tennessee. In 1961, he volunteered to participate in the Freedom Rides, which challenged segregation at interstate bus terminals across the South. Lewis risked his life on those Rides many times by simply sitting in seats reserved for white patrons. He was also beaten severely by angry mobs and arrested by police for challenging the injustice of Jim Crow segregation in the South. During the height of the Movement, from 1963 to 1966, Lewis was named Chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), which he helped form. SNCC was largely responsible for organizing student activism in the Movement, including sit-ins and other activities.

Lewis helped spearhead one of the most seminal moments of the Civil Rights Movement. Hosea Williams, another notable Civil Rights leader, and Lewis led over 600 peaceful, orderly protestors across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama on March 7, 1965. They intended to march from Selma to Montgomery to demonstrate the need for voting rights in the state.

Congressman John R. Lewis

The marchers were attacked by Alabama state troopers in a brutal confrontation that became known as “Bloody Sunday.” News broadcasts and photographs revealing the senseless cruelty of the segregated South helped hasten the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Despite more than 40 arrests, physical attacks and serious injuries, Lewis remained a devoted advocate of the philosophy of nonviolence. After leaving SNCC in 1966, he continued his commitment to the Civil Rights Movement as Associate Director of the Field Foundation and his participation in the Southern Regional Council’s voter registration programs. Lewis went on to become the Director of the Voter Education Project (VEP). Under his leadership, the VEP transformed the nation’s political climate by adding nearly four million minorities to the voter rolls.

In 1981, Lewis was elected to the Atlanta City Council. While serving on the Council, he was an advocate for ethics in government and neighborhood preservation. He was elected to Congress in November 1986 and has served as U.S. Representative of Georgia’s Fifth Congressional District since then. That District includes the entire city of Atlanta, Georgia and parts of Fulton, DeKalb and Clayton counties. He is Senior Chief Deputy Whip for the Democratic Party in leadership in the House, a member of the House Ways & Means Committee, a member of its Subcommittee on Income Security and Family Support, and Chairman of its Subcommittee on Oversight.

Lewis’s autobiography, Walk with the Wind, was published in 1998. In 2006, two other books were written about his life: Freedom Riders: John Lewis and Jim Zwerg on the Front Lines of the Civil Rights Movement, by Ann Bausum and John Lewis in the Lead , by Jim Haskins and Kathleen Benson, with illustrations by famous Georgia artist, Bennie Andrews.

Major Andrew Harvey

Major Andrew Harvey provides an inside look at the Iraqi government from the perspective of a political and military intelligence officer who spent most of 2006 at Camp Victory Baghdad. His presentation -- seen before only by a select group of soldiers, businessmen and insiders -- will go beyond "benchmarks" to assess where the Maliki government is and is likely to go in the future.

World Hot Spots:
What Google Earth and Geography Tell Us About War, Peace, and Politics

Brian McClendon
Brian McClendon is an Engineering Director at Google overseeing Geo products including Google Earth, Google Maps, Sketchup, and Streetview. He joined Google in 2004 after the acquisition of Keyhole Corporation where he was the VP of Engineering and a member of the Board of Directors. Prior to Keyhole, he was a founder at Intrinsic Graphics, an Engineering Director at @Home Network, and spent eight years at Silicon Graphics developing high-end workstation 3D graphics subsystems like GT, GTX, RealityEngine, and InfiniteReality. Brian grew up in Lawrence, Kansas and attended Kansas University where he received a bachelors of science degree in Electrical Engineering in 1986. He currently resides in Silicon Valley and is an active angel investor.

Jerry Dobson
Dr. Jerome E. (Jerry) Dobson is a Professor of Geography at the University of Kansas, President of the American Geographical Society, and a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. He previously served as a Distinguished Research & Development Staff Member at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, President of the University Consortium for Geographic Information Science (UCGIS), and Contributing Editor of GeoWorld magazine. His current research includes testing a new system for mapping minefields without walking on them; designing and promulgating a new world standard for cartographic representation of landmines, minefields, and mine actions; and leading four Bowman Expeditions to conduct fieldwork in Mexico, the Antilles, Colombia, and Jordan.

Alexander Murphy
Alexander B. Murphy is Professor of Geography at the University of Oregon, where he also holds the James F. and Shirley K. Rippey Chair in Liberal Arts and Sciences. He specializes in cultural and political geography, with a regional emphasis on Europe. Murphy is a past president of the Association of American Geographers (2003-2004), a vice-president of the American Geographical Society, and an editor of both Progress in Human Geography and Eurasian Geography and Economics. He also chaired the national committee that oversaw the addition of Geography to the College Board’s Advanced Placement program. Murphy is the author of more than seventy articles and several books, including The Regional Dynamics of Language Differentiation in Belgium,Cultural Encounters with the Environment, and Human Geography: Culture, Society, and Space. Murphy is the recipient of numerous grants and awards, including a Fulbright-Hays Research Grant, a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, a National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator Award in the mid-1990s, and a National Council for Geographic Education Distinguished Teaching Award in 2001. Murphy holds a bachelors degree in archaeology from Yale University, a law degree from the Columbia University School of Law, and a Ph.D. in geography from the University of Chicago.

Greg Hurd
Producer and writer Greg Hurd is currently producing the film The Only Good Indian starring Wes Studi which is now in post-production. He also produced and co-written with Kevin Willmott Bunker Hill, starring James McDaniel and Saeed Jaffrey, which is also currently in post-production. In television, Hurd is an AP Managing Editors, Telly, Midi and Mature Media award-winning producer, writer and host. Hurd currently produces and hosts Free State Studios’ River City Weekly, an interview show which has surpassed 250 episodes. An ordained minister with the Presbyterian Church U.S.A., Hurd resides in Lawrence, Kansas with wife Genna and is the stepfather to her three children, John Ott, Alex Ott, and Ellie Ott.

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Connie Schultz

The Dole Institute of Politics' Senior Fellow Jennifer Schmidt interviews Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Connie Schultz of the Cleveland Plain Dealer. Schultz is the author of Life Happens and ..And His Lovely Wife, about her year on the campaign trail with her husband Sherrod Brown, who was elected to the U.S. Senate from Ohio in 2006.

Her other awards include the Scripps-Howard National Journalism Award, the National Headliners Award, the James Batten Medal, and the Robert F. Kennedy Award for social-justice reporting. Her narrative series “The Burden of Innocence,” which chronicled the life of a man wrongly incarcerated for rape, was a Pulitzer Prize finalist.

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"GENOCIDE: What the World Can Do and Should Do" 

Former U.S. Ambassador Robert Beecroft
Former U.S. Ambassador Edward Brynn
Moderator: Prof. Jonathan Earle, Interim Director, Dole Institute of Politics

Ambassadors Beecroft and Brynn examine the current crisis in the Darfur region of Sudan and compare it to the genocides in Bosnia and Rwanda. Beecroft led U.S. diplomatic relations with Bosnia from 2001 to 2004. Brynn served as ambassador to Burkina Faso from 1990 to 1993 and Ghana from 1995 to 1998.

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General Richard B. Myers

General Richard B. Myers retired as the 15th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on 1 October, 2005, after serving over 40 years in the US Air Force. During his term as Chairman, he served as principal military adviser to the President, the Secretary of Defense, and the National Security Council.

General Myers led the US Armed Forces during a time of great threat to the Nation's security. He began his term just a few weeks after the September 11th attacks, and was instrumental in guiding the US strategy for the War on Terrorism. During his tenure as Chairman, the US led international efforts to topple the Taliban and deny Al Qaida's safe haven in Afghanistan, and to defeat the Saddam Hussein regime in Iraq. He also oversaw the US military's role in relief efforts for the tsunami that struck the Pacific in December of 2004, and Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005.

A native of Kansas City, Kansas, and a 1965 graduate of Kansas State University, General Myers also served as Vice Chairman and Assistant to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. He has held command positions at every level, including Commander of US Space Command, North American Aerospace Defense Command, Pacific Air Forces, US Forces Japan, and two fighter wings. A fighter pilot with over 4,100 hours, General Myers logged more than 600 combat hours during the Vietnam conflict.

His legacy can be found throughout the US Armed Forces and throughout the world: in the 50 million newly-freed people in Afghanistan and Iraq, in countless lives saved from natural disasters, and in a transformed military better prepared to protect the homeland and meet future threats.

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Howard Baker
2007 Dole Leadership Prize Honoree

Capping a distinguished public-service career as senator, presidential advisor and ambassador, Howard H. Baker, Jr. returned in February 2005 to Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz, PC, the law firm his grandfather founded and where he formerly practiced with his father, the late U.S. Rep. Howard H. Baker. As Senior Counsel to the firm, Senator Baker focuses his practice on public policy and international matters.

Senator Baker's return followed his service as the 26th U.S. Ambassador to Japan, a position to which President George W. Bush appointed him in 2001. The appointment was yet another milestone in a public service career that began in 1966, when Senator Baker became the first Republican popularly elected to the U.S. Senate from Tennessee.

Senator Baker gained national recognition in 1973 as Vice Chairman of the Senate Watergate Committee. Three years later, he was keynote speaker at the Republican National Convention and was a 1980 candidate for the Republican presidential nomination.

He concluded his Senate career in 1985 after two terms as Majority Leader (1981 to 1985) and two terms as Minority Leader (1977 to 1981). He was President Reagan's Chief of Staff from February 1987 to July 1988.

A delegate to the United Nations in 1976, Senator Baker has extensive foreign policy experience. He served on the President's Foreign Intelligence Board from 1985 to 1987 and from 1988 to 1990 and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Washington Institute of Foreign Affairs. He serves on the board of the Forum of International Policy and is an International Counselor for the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

Among his many awards are the 1984 Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian award, and the Jefferson Award for Greatest Public Service Performed by an Elected or Appointed Official, which he received in 1982. An accomplished photographer, Senator Baker received The American Society of Photographers' International Award in 1993 and was elected into the Photo Marketing Association's Hall of Fame in 1994. He has received honorary degrees from such institutions as Yale University, Dartmouth College, Georgetown University, Bradley University, Pepperdine University, and Centre College.

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John Patrick Diggins

Ronald Reagan: Fate, Freedom, and the Making of History
Author & Distinguished Professor of History,
City University of New York Graduate Center

Diggins offers an illuminating reevaluation of Reagan's presidency and legacy. As Diggins explains, the recent publication of Reagan's letters, speeches, and radio transcriptions reveal a man far more intelligent, sensitive, and passionate than his critics gave him credit for and shed new light on a man America never came to fully understand. Diggins is the author of several books, including The Rise and Fall of the American Left and The Proud Decades: 1941 - 1960, biographies of John Adams and Max Weber.

Walter F. Mondale

Walter F. Mondale’s record of public service includes Vice President of the United States, U.S. Ambassador to Japan, U.S. Senator and Attorney General for the State of Minnesota. He was also the Democratic Party’s nominee for President in 1984. He is currently Senior Counsel with the law firm of Dorsey & Whitney LLP, headquartered in Minneapolis with 16 offices worldwide. He serves as chair of the firm’s Asia Law Practice Group.

In March 1998, serving as President Clinton’s special envoy, Vice President Mondale traveled to Indonesia to meet with then-President Suharto regarding the Asian financial crisis and economic reforms in Indonesia. Walter Frederick (“Fritz”) Mondale was born in Ceylon, Minnesota on January 5, 1928, the son of Theodore Sigvaard Mondale and Claribel Cowan Mondale. After he helped manage Hubert H. Humphrey’s first successful U.S.Senate campaign in 1948, he earned his B.A. in political science from the University of Minnesota in 1951. After completing service as a corporal in the U.S. Army, Mondale received his LL.B. (cum laude) from the University of Minnesota Law School in 1956. Mr. Mondale practiced law for the next four years in Minneapolis. In 1960, Minnesota Governor Orville Freeman appointed him to the position of State Attorney General. He was then elected to the office in 1962, and served until 1964, when Governor Karl Rolvaag asked him to fill the U.S. Senate vacancy created by Hubert Humphrey’s election to the Vice Presidency. The voters of Minnesota returned him to the Senate in 1966 and 1972.

During his 12 years as a Senator, Vice President Mondale served on the Finance Committee, the Labor and Public Welfare Committee, Budget Committee and the Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee. He also served as the chairman of the Select Committee on Equal Education Opportunity
and as the chairman of the Intelligence Committee’s Domestic Task Force. Jimmy Carter and Walter Mondale were elected President and Vice President of the United States on November 2, 1976. On the President’s behalf, Vice President Mondale traveled extensively throughout the country and the world advocating U.S. policy. He was the first Vice President to have an office in the White House, and he served as a full-time participant, advisor, and troubleshooter for the Administration.

From 1986 until his appointment as Ambassador in 1993, he served as chairman of the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs, a Washington,DC-based organization that conducts non-partisan international programs to help maintain and strengthen democratic institutions.

Michael Brown

Former director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) “Hurricane Katrina: An Insider Tells His Side of the Story”

Nominated by President George W. Bush to several Homeland Security positions, Michael D. Brown was twice confirmed by the United States Senate. President Bush nominated Mr. Brown as the first Under Secretary in the Department of Homeland Security. That nomination was preceded by his unique experience as the President’s appointee to lead a White House Transition Planning Off