Intellectuals and the American Presidency
Wednesday, May 08, 2002 | 4:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.
Wohlstetter Conference Center, Twelfth Floor, AEI 1150 Seventeenth Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036
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About This Event
In this new book, Intellectuals and the American Presidency (Rowman & Littlefield, May 2002) Tevi Troy examines the complex relationships between U.S. presidents and intellectuals. From Arthur Schlesinger’s work in John Kennedy’s campaign and administration to Daniel Patrick Moynihan’s role in the Nixon White House to Sidney Blumenthal’s efforts to secure intellectual support for a scandal-plagued Bill Clinton, every president since 1960 has grappled with the need for legitimization by the intellectual community. Using popular sources and previously untapped archival material, Troy, a former researcher at AEI, looks at the advisers who were liaisons to the scholarly world and at the presidents’ views of those intellectuals. Intellectuals and the American Presidency analyzes how American presidents have made use of intellectuals to shape their images and advance their agendas. This discussion will explore the themes that Troy raises in his book.
Agenda
3:45 p.m. Registration
4:00 Panelists: David Frum, AEI
William Galston, University of Maryland
Robert Goldwin, AEI
William Kristol, Weekly Standard
Tevi Troy, author
Moderator: Ben J. Wattenberg, AEI
6:00 Adjournment
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David
Frum
  • David Frum is the author of six books, most recently, Comeback: Conservatism That Can Win Again (Doubleday, 2007). While at AEI, he studied recent political, generational, and demographic trends. In 2007, the British newspaper Daily Telegraph named him one of America's fifty most influential conservatives. Mr. Frum is a regular commentator on public radio's Marketplace and a columnist for The Week and Canada's National Post.
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Robert A.
Goldwin (1922-2010)
  • Robert A. Goldwin served in the White House as a special consultant to President Gerald Ford and, concurrently, in the Pentagon as an adviser to Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. Mr. Goldwin previously worked for Mr. Rumsfeld at the U.S. Mission to NATO in Brussels, taught political science at the University of Chicago and Kenyon College, and later became dean of St. John's College in Annapolis. He has edited more than twenty books on American politics, including a ten-volume AEI series on the Constitution: A Decade of Study of the Constitution.

     

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