On October 25, The Transition to Governing Project hosted a discussion ofPreparing to Be President: The Memos of Richard E. Neustadt, edited by Charles O. Jones. Neustadt spoke about the upcoming presidential transition as well as the memos he wrote to aid Kennedy, Reagan, and Clinton. He was joined by a panel of former transition officials, and journalists and scholars who have written about presidential transitions.
Agenda
Introduction:
Norman J. Ornstein, American Enterprise Institute
Thomas E. Mann, Brookings Institution
Featured Speaker:
Richard E. Neustadt, Harvard University
Panelists:
C. Boyden Gray, Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering
Reed Hundt, former chairman of the Federal Communications Commission
Charles O. Jones, University of Wisconsin
Ruth Marcus, deputy national editor, Washington Post
Nelson Polsby, Heller Professor of Political Science, UC Berkeley
Hedrick Smith, Hedrick Smith Productions
Hon. Harris Wofford, CEO, Corporation for National Service
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