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SUMMARY:2020 FALL | Politics\, Pandemic and Protests
DESCRIPTION:Unpacking the 2020 general election with the Dole Institute’s fall fellow\, Collen McCain Nelson\, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and Vice-President of the Kansas City Star. \nDole Fellow Colleen McCain Nelson\nRead more about Dole Fellows >> \nThe Dole Discussion Groups are made possible by a grant from Newman’s Own. \n  \n  \nElection 2020: The State of the Race\n9/23/2020 \n \nAs the 2020 presidential campaign enters the final sprint to the finish\, we’ll kick off this fall discussion series by assessing the state of the race after a tumultuous and unpredictable spring and summer. Which states are likely to decide this election? What issues and messages are resonating with voters? This will be a broad overview of the political landscape and a prelude to future Dole Institute events\, touching on campaign strategy\, fundraising\, and the state of play in the battle for control of Congress. \nAllan J. Katz served as Ambassador of the United States of America to the Republic of Portugal from March 2010 until August 2013. Upon returning to private life\, Ambassador Katz joined the University of Missouri in Kansas City (UMKC) as a Distinguished Professor where he served from 2013 until 2019. In 2019\, he joined the faculty of William Jewell College as Distinguished Professor in Residence. Additionally\, in 2014\, he founded and remains CEO and Chairman of an NGO\, American Public Square\, which brings together non-like-minded people to engage in civil\, fact-based dialogue about polarizing issues. He serves as Executive Committee Chair of the Academic and Corporate Board to ISCTE Business School in Lisbon\, Portugal. Additionally\, he serves as a non-executive Board Member of EDP Renewables (global energy company\, a leader in the utilities sector and part of the Dow Jones Sustainability Index)\, a board member of the Harry S. Truman Good Neighbor Foundation\, and a former board member of the International Relations Council of Kansas City. \nKevin Yoder is a 5th generation Kansan who represented the 3rd District of Kansas for four terms from 2011-2019. During his entire tenure in Congress\, Kevin served on the House Appropriations Committee\, where he chaired both the Homeland Security and the Legislative Branch Subcommittees. He regularly crossed the aisle working with members of both parties to push for key initiatives\, including historic expansion of medical research funding at the National Institutes of Health and new investments in early childhood education programs like Head-start. Prior to serving in Congress\, Kevin was elected four times to the Kansas State Legislature representing Overland Park and Leawood\, and he served as Chairman of the House Appropriations Committee. Kevin is a graduate of the University of Kansas. \n  \nWhy did everyone underestimate Joe Biden?\n9/30/2020 \n \nEven though Joe Biden entered the 2020 Democratic presidential primary as the front-runner\, many political pundits and journalists lost confidence in the former vice president along the way\, writing his political obituary and declaring him an also-ran who had missed his moment. How did they get this race so wrong? And at a moment when it appeared that Sen. Bernie Sanders was gaining steam and possibly emerging as an unstoppable force\, how did Biden quickly change the narrative and begin to unify the party? \nEdward-Isaac Dovere is a staff writer for The Atlantic\, where he covers the presidential campaign. He got his start covering politics in his native New York and was the senior White House reporter for POLITICO in Barack Obama’s second term. He is currently working on a book about Democrats in the Trump years\, tentatively titled\, “You Are Right to Be Concerned\,” out spring 2021. \nPeter Nicholas is a White House reporter for The Atlantic. He has also worked at the Wall Street Journal\, the Los Angeles Times\, the Philadelphia Inquirer\, and the Times-Picayune newspaper. \n  \nHow the Coronavirus Has Upended the 2020 Campaign\n10/7/2020 \n \nWith relatively little warning\, the coronavirus pandemic brought the 2020 presidential campaign to a virtual halt\, cancelling candidates’ rallies for months\, throwing the conventions into limbo\, shutting down in-person fundraisers and making gladhanding and personal appeals to voters an impossibility. For a time\, President Donald Trump was confined to the White House\, and Democratic nominee Joe Biden was forced to campaign from his basement in Delaware. How did the campaigns adapt? And how is COVID-19 still altering the dynamics of the race? \n  \nIt’s the Economy\, Stupid\n10/14/2020 \n \nConventional wisdom has long suggested that presidents win reelection when the economy is strong and lose when the economy is faltering. Will that hold true in the 2020 election? For three years\, President Donald Trump could lay claim to a thriving economy\, low unemployment and a strong stock market. But the bottom fell out when the coronavirus took hold in this country\, spurring Depression-era unemployment and gutting entire industries. Will voters hold Trump responsible for the economic fallout from a pandemic? \n  \nA War of Disinformation\n10/21/2020 \n \nWhat role is disinformation playing in the 2020 presidential campaign? In 2016\, many were shocked — shocked! — to learn that completely false “news” stories about the election were shared far and wide on social media. Four years later\, little has been done to slow the spread of disinformation on a variety of online platforms. Foreign governments have made no secret of their intent to meddle in our elections. And the president himself has had a tenuous relationship with the truth\, elevating conspiracy theories and repeating falsehoods. What can voters do to separate fact from fiction? \n  \nDo Endorsements Matter?\n10/28/2020 \n \nTime was\, newspaper endorsements were a consequential boost for campaigns. But in an era of multiplying media outlets and declining newspaper subscriptions\, do endorsements still carry the same weight? In 2016\, Donald Trump earned the endorsements of only 20 daily newspapers in the entire country\, but he won the White House. We’ll convene opinion journalists to explore what role editorial boards are playing in the 2020 election and consider the question of whether traditional candidate endorsements have outlived their usefulness. \n  \nElection 2020: Lessons Learned\n11/18/2020 \n \nWith the 2020 election now in the rearview mirror\, we’ll do a deep dive into the deciding factors in this year’s presidential campaign. Did polls\, journalists\, and political prognosticators get it right this time? What surprised us on Election Day? Were the mistakes of 2016 repeated in 2020? We’ll wrap up this election season with an assessment of lessons learned from the 2020 campaign and a look ahead to what awaits the next president and Congress.
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SUMMARY:Spring 1944: The Turning Point in the China-Burma-India Theater in World War II
DESCRIPTION:In the spring of 1944\, the conflict in the China-Burma-India Theater (CBI) began to turn in favor of the Allies. The Japanese\, in two offensives: ICHIGO (Operation Number 1) in China; and\, U-GO (Operation C) in India\, endeavored to take China out of the war and drive the British from India. General William Slim’s 14th Army successfully defended at Kohima and Imphal and quickly launched a counterattack into Burma. General Joseph Stilwell’s forces from the Chinese Army in India supported this effort along with Orde Wingate’s Chindits and American advised Chinese forces from Y-Force headquartered in Kunming. In China\, Chiang Kai-shek’s forces eventually turned the tide on the Japanese attempt to knock out airfields in China capable of hitting the mainland and secure a landline of communication from Korea to Southeast Asia. The final Allied victory in mainland Asia began with the destruction of Japanese forces in China\, Burma\, and India in the spring of 1944. \nThis special program will be live-streamed to the institute’s YouTube channel and to its website\, www.doleinstitute.org. Due to continuing concerns regarding the novel coronavirus pandemic\, the program will only be available online. Follow the Dole Institute on Facebook\, Instagram\, or Twitter for updates regarding this and future programming. \nDr. Geoff Babb \nDr. Joseph G. D. (Geoff) Babb is a retired U.S. Army Special Forces Lieutenant Colonel currently serving as an Associate Professor of History at the U.S. Army’s Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth\, Kansas. Dr. Babb holds a BA from Bowdoin College\, a MPA from Clark University\, a MA in East Asian Languages and Cultures and a Ph.D. in History from the University of Kansas. Dr. Babb served as a China Foreign Area Officer educated in Hong Kong and Beijing. He served in Washington D.C. at the Defense Intelligence Agency and on the Joint Staff. He also was a regional desk officer in Hawaii at US Pacific and Army Pacific Commands. He has written on the American military’s role in China in Volumes I and II of Through the Joint\, Interagency\, and Multinational Lens: Perspectives on the Operational Environment. His most recent publication is a chapter on the Korea War published in Weaving the Tangled Web; Military Deception in Large-Scale Combat Operations issued by Army University Press. \n 
URL:https://doleinstitute.org/event/spring-1944-the-turning-point-in-the-china-burma-india-theater-in-world-war-ii/
CATEGORIES:Ft. Leavenworth Series
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SUMMARY:2020 | Major General Diana M. Holland
DESCRIPTION:This year’s Elizabeth Dole Women in Leadership lecture will be given by Major General Diana M. Holland of the U.S. Army. \n“We are thrilled to have Major General Holland as our guest for this year’s Elizabeth Dole Women in Leadership lecture\,” said Director Bill Lacy. “Her distinguished and storied career with the U.S. Army is an inspiration. Her lifetime of service to this country made her a natural choice.” \nThis program is closed-captioned for the hearing impaired. \nA downloadable\, printable program for this event is available here. \nThis special program will be live-streamed to the institute’s YouTube channel and to its website\, www.doleinstitute.org. Due to continuing concerns regarding the novel coronavirus pandemic\, the program will only be available online. Follow the Dole Institute on Facebook\, Instagram\, or Twitter for updates regarding this and future programming. \nHolland graduated from the United States Military Academy and was commissioned a Second Lieutenant in the Corps of Engineers in 1990. She served in Operation Freedom’s Sentinel\, Joint Task Force Sapper\, and Task Force Diamond in Afghanistan. She also served in Operation Iraqi Freedom. As commander of the South Atlantic Division\, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers\, she oversaw support to disaster-stricken states following hurricanes Irma\, Maria\, Florence\, and Michael. \nIn 2015\, Holland was the first woman appointed commandant of Cadets at the United States Military Academy at West Point. In that same year\, she was the first woman to hold the title of deputy commander of support in a light infantry division. She currently serves with the Army Corps of Engineers as the commanding general of the Mississippi Valley Division\, and as the president of the Mississippi River Commission\, both firsts for a woman in these appointments. \nHolland’s military awards and decorations include the Legion of Merit\, the Bronze Star\, the Meritorious Service Medal\, Afghanistan Campaign Star\, Global War on Terrorism Expeditionary Medal\, and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization Medal\, to name a few. \n \n 
URL:https://doleinstitute.org/event/major-general-diana-m-holland/
CATEGORIES:Elizabeth Dole Women in Leadership Lecture
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