Senator Baker will turn eighty-five this coming week and to commemorate that
occasion, the Baker Center is sponsoring a two-day conference, "Howard H.
Baker, Jr.: A Life in Public Service," to be held at the Baker Center this coming
Tuesday and Wednesday, November 16-17. The conference is free and open
to the public and will be available to view via webcast.
http://bakercenter.utk.edu/multimedia/conference-on-howard-h-baker-jr/
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
8:30-4:00
Toyota Auditorium
Two Sessions:
Conflict & Conciliation: Lessons from Baker’s Leadership in the U.S. Senate,
and
At the Helm: Challenges in Running the Modern White House.
Lectures by:
Prof. Steven V. Roberts, George Washington University School of Media & Public
Affairs and former Capitol Hill correspondent for The New York Times during
Sen. Baker’s Senate career.
Prof. Wendy Schiller, Brown University Department of Political Science
Panel Discussion: Howard Baker as U.S. Senator
Prof. Keith Whittington, Princeton University Department of Political Science
Prof. David B. Cohen, University of Akron Department of Political Science
Prof. Charles E. Walcott, Virginia Tech Department of Political Science
Panel Discussion: Howard Baker as White House Chief of Staff
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
8:30-11:50
Toyota Auditorium
Morning Session:
Allies & Adversaries: Howard Baker’s Complicated Relationship with Richard
Nixon
Lectures by:
Prof. Jeffrey Rosen, George Washington University Law School
Eric S. Perlstein, author of Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the
Unmaking of the American Consensus (2001), and Nixonland: The Rise of a
President and the Fracturing of America (2008); former writer for The Village
Voice and The New Republic;.and recent contributor to Newsweek and the
American Prospect.
James Hamilton, Esq., Former Assistant Chief Majority Counsel to the Senate
Watergate Committee
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