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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