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Published April 5, 2004; Category: EVENTS
Former New York Times correspondent will open series
Richard Reeves, a former chief political correspondent for The New York Times and a Pulitzer Prize finalist, will present a lecture called "Presidential Leadership: Presidents John F. Kennedy, Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan," on Tuesday, May 4, at 4:30 p.m. in Filene Auditorium. The lecture is part of a series on presidential politics presented by the Kenneth and Harle Montgomery Endowment during the election year 2004.
Each speaker in the series - Reeves, presidential historian Robert Dallek and Pulitzer Prize winner Russell Baker - will also be in residence as Montgomery Fellows during the spring, summer and fall terms of 2004, respectively. The lecture series is free and open to the public.
Reeves, who is also an author, will be the first speaker of the series. His books include President Nixon: Alone in the White House, published in 2001, and President Kennedy: Profile of Power, which was named the Best Non-Fiction Book of 1993 by Time magazine and Book of the Year by Washington Monthly. Reeves is now working on a book about the presidency of Ronald Reagan.
Also, Reeves won the Carey McWilliams Award of the American Political Science Association in 1998 for distinguished contributions to the understanding of American politics. Reeves is a visiting professor at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California. His other accomplishments include the creation of six television films and the receipt of all of television's major documentary awards, including the Emmy for "Lights, Camera . . . Politics!" for ABC News.
Dallek's works include the two-volume biography of Lyndon Johnson, Lone Star Rising and Flawed Giant, and the 2003 New York Times bestseller, An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy, 1917-1963. He is a professor of history at Boston University and will teach an undergraduate course at Dartmouth during the summer term. His lecture, "John F. Kennedy: A Reassessment," is scheduled for Tuesday, July 20, at 4 p.m. in Filene Auditorium.
Baker, a former columnist for The New York Times, will present a lecture, the title of which will be announced later, on Wednesday, Oct. 13, at a time and location to be announced.
Former Dartmouth Trustee David Shribman '76 will offer a post-election analysis at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 9, in Filene Auditorium. He is the executive editor of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
By SHIORI OKAZAKI
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