Dole Institute Program Video Library
November 29, 2007
An Evening with Michael Dukakis
Michael Stanley Dukakis
- 1988 Democratic presidential nominee, former Governor of Massachusetts
- video | lecture handout pdf
November 14, 2007
The Changing Face of Warfare in the 21st Century
Lieutenant General William B. Caldwell, IV
- Commanding General, U.S. Army Combined Arms Center and Fort Leavenworth Commandant, U.S. Army Command and General Staff College
- video | lecture handout pdf
November 5, 2007
The Navy Cross
Navy Captain Jim Wise (ret.)
- Author, former naval aviator, intelligence officer, and Vietnam veteran. Also joining the presentation was author Scott Barron, former naval aviator, intelligence officer, and Vietnam veteran
- video | lecture handout pdf
October 30, 2007
The Prince of Darkness
Robert D. Novak
- Veteran Washington columnist & commentator. Author, The Prince of Darkness: 50 Years Reporting in Washington
- video | handout bio | photo documentary
October 25, 2007
Third Parties in Two Party America
Afternoon Session - Academic Panel
Lisa Disch
- prof. political science, University of Minnesota; author, The Tyranny of the Two-Party System.
John H. Aldrich
- Pfizer-Pratt university prof., political science, Duke University; author, Why Parties?
J. David Gillespie
- prof. political science, College of Charleston; author, Politics at the Periphery.
Bob Beatty
- prof., political science, Washburn University; expert on Kansas’ own “three party” system.
Jonathan Earle, moderator
- author, The Free Soil and Republican Parties in 19th Century America; interim director of the Dole Institute; KU prof., history.
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- video - afternoon session |handout bios | photo documentary
Third Parties in Two Party America
Evening Session - Roundtable of Political Practitioners
Bill Kurtis, moderator
- former CBS News anchor; host of numerous A&E programs, KU alumnus.
David Boaz
- executive vice president of the libertarian Cato Institute.
Doug Bailey and Gerald Rafshoon
- Unity ’08 founders and veteran political practitioners.
Richard Winger
- Coalition for Free and Open Elections
Micah Sifry
- author, Spoiling for a Fight: Third Party Politics in America.
- video - evening session | handout bio | photo documentary
October 23, 2007
- Friends of the Dole Institute Program & Dinner
Jules Witcover
- veteran syndicated political columnist; author, Very Strange Bedfellows: The Short and Unhappy Marriage of Richard Nixon and Spiro Agnew.
- video | handout bio | photo documentary
October 21, 2007
Dole Leadership Prize Presentation/Lecture
John R. Lewis
- U.S. Congressman (D-GA)
Legendary Civil Rights Activist
- video | handout bio | photo documentary
September 26, 2007
Observations from Iraq: Implications for the Future
Major Andrew Harvey
- Intelligence officer in Iraq, 2006
- video | handout bio
September 21, 2007
World Hot Spots: What Google Earth and Geography Tell Us About War, Peace, and Politics
Brian McClendon
- creator of Google Earth
KU Prof. Jerry Dobson
- President of Am. Geographical Society; Oregon University
Prof. Alexander Murphy
- Oregon University
Greg Hurd
- (moderator), producer, writer for film and television, host of River City Weekly.
- video | handout bio | photo documentary
September 12, 2007
An Evening with Connie Schultz
Connie Schultz
- Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist, author, and wife of a U.S. Senator Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH). Author of “….and His Lovely Wife: A Memoir from the Woman Beside the Man”
- video | handout bio | photo documentary
September 6, 2007
Genocide: What the World Can Do and Should Do
Robert Beecroft
- Former U.S. Ambassador
Edward Brynn
- Former U.S. Ambassador
- video | lecture handout pdf | event photo documentary
May 2, 2007
DOLE LECTURE 2007
General Richard B. Myers
- 15th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (2001-2005)
- video | handout bio | photo documentary
April 22, 2007
Dole Leadership Prize Presentation/Lecture
Howard Baker
- 2007 Dole Leadership Prize Honoree
Former U.S. Senator (R-Tenn.), Senate Majority Leader, Chief of Staff in the Reagan White House and U.S. Ambassador to Japan. Current Statesman, Photographer and Husband of former U.S. Senator Nancy Kassebaum Baker (R-KS)
- video | handout bio | photo documentary
April 17, 2007
Ronald Reagan: Fate, Freedom, and the Making of History
John Patrick Diggins
- Author & Distinguished Professor of History, City University of New York Graduate Center
- video | handout bio | photo documentary
April 12, 2007
An Evening with Walter Mondale
Walter F. Mondale
- former Vice President of the United States
- video | handout bio | photo documentary
January 29, 2007
"Hurrican Katrina: An Insider Tells His Side of the Story"
Michael Brown
- former director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
- video | handout bio | photo documentary
March 28, 2007
Monkey Girl: Evolution, Education, Religion, and the Battle for America's Soul
Edward Humes
- author & Pulitzer Prize winning journalist
- video | handout bio | photo documentary | www.edwardhumes.com
March 14, 2007
Disaster: Hurricane Katrina and the Failure of Homeland Security
Chris Cooper
- author; Wall Street Journal reporter
- video | handout bio | photo documentary
February 21, 2007
America's Foremost Political Prognosticator
Charlie Cook
- publisher of The Cook Political Report
- video | handout bio | photo documentary
February 13, 2007 | Presidential Lecture Series
Blog to the Chief:
The Impact of Political Blogs on the 2008 Election
Patrick Hynes
- blogger, www.anklebitingpundits.com
Erick Erickson
- blogger, www.redstate.com
Jerome Armstrong
- blogger, www.mydd.com
Joan McCarter
- blogger, (mcjoan) www.dailykos.com
Scott Johnson
- blogger, www.powerlineblog.com
KU Prof. David D. Perlmutter
- blogger, www.policybyblog.squarespace.com
- video | handout bio | photo documentary
February 8, 2007 | Presidential Lecture Series
Remembering President Gerald R. Ford (1913-2006)
Richard Norton Smith
- Presidential historian; former director, Dole Institute.
- video| handout bio | photo documentary
