Kenneth Walsh, U.S. News’ Chief White House Correspondent, Watergate's John Dean Among Speakers at Eagleton Institute
Walsh, will discuss and sign copies of his book, Family of Freedom: Presidents and African Americans in the White House (Paradigm Publishes, 2011) Thursday, Sept. 22 at Wood Lawn, 191 Ryders Lane, Douglass Campus, New Brunswick. The program starts 6:45 p.m.
Dean, whose celebrated testimony before the Senate Watergate Committee implicated Nixon in the scandal that eventually led to the president’s resignation in disgrace, will present “Ethics, Law and Government: Drawing the Right Lessons from Watergate,” at the Arthur J. Holland Program on Ethics In Government Wednesday, Nov. 16 at 7:30 p.m. in the Douglass Campus Center, 100 George St., New Brunswick.
Morley Winograd and Michael D. Hais, will lecture and sign copies of their new book, Millennial Momentum: How a New Generation is Remaking America (Rutgers University Press, 2011) Thursday, Oct. 6, 6:45 p.m. at Wood Lawn. Former U.S. Rep. Lee Hamilton (D-Ind.), former vice chair of the 9/11 Commission, will describe “The U.S. Role in the World after 9/11, Afghanistan and Iraq” as the Clifford P. Case Professor of Public Affairs Wednesday, Oct. 12, 7:30 p.m. at the Douglass Campus Center.
All programs are free and open to the public. To RSVP, visit www.eagleton.rutgers.edu or call 732-932-9384, ext. 331.
Walsh’s book examines the intertwined relationships between the presidents and the African Americans who have been an integral part of the White House since the beginning of the Republic. The book discusses the racial attitudes and policies of the presidents and shows how African Americans helped to shape those attitudes and policies over the years.
Before becoming Counsel to the President of the United States in July 1970 at 31, Dean was Chief Minority Counsel to the Judiciary Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives, the associate director of a law reform commission and Associate Deputy U.S. Attorney General.
Dean has long written on the subjects of law, government and politics, and he recounted his days in the Nixon White House and Watergate in two books, Blind Ambition (1976) and Lost Honor (1982). Copies of his book, Broken Government: How Republican Rule Destroyed the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Branches (Viking Penguin, 2007) will be available for purchase and signing.
Winograd and Hais are fellows at NDN and the New Policy Institute, Washington think tanks. Millennial Momentum describes how the Millennial Generation is changing the way the United States lives and learns, votes and governs, works and plays.
Besides his role on the 9/11 Commission, Hamilton, the Case Professor, was the co-chair, with former Secretary of State James A. Baker III, of the Iraq Study Group organized by the U.S. Institute of Peace and announced by Congress. He is director of the Center on Congress at Indiana University.
Clifford P. Case graduated from Rutgers College in 1925. In 1980, the Rutgers Board of Governors voted to establish the Clifford P. Case Professorship of Public Affairs to recognize Case’s 34 years representing New Jersey in Congress during which “he consistently put principles above politics” and earned “the deserved reputation of having a profound sense of integrity.” He was inducted into the Hall of Distinguished Alumni in 1988.
Case Professors give public lectures, speak to classes and meet with small groups of students and faculty. They also meet informally with members of the Case family.
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