Carolyn Wheat

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Presidential Historian to Discuss Leadership Styles of American Presidents

March 10, 2000  -  Award winning presidential historian and author Michael Beschloss will speak at Trinity University on "Leadership Styles of American Presidents," Thursday, April 6, at 7:30 p.m. in Laurie Auditorium.  His address is part of the Cameron Lecture in Politics and Public Affairs lecture series.  Admission is free. Beschloss is the author of six books, including two national bestsellers: Taking Charge: The Johnson White House Tapes, 1963-1964, his most recent book and the first volume of a projected trilogy; and The Crisis Years: Kennedy and Khrushchev, 1960-1963, which won the Ambassador Book Prize for American Studies.  He is a regular commentator on PBS's "The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer," is ABC News' historical consultant, and has been called "the nation's leading presidential historian" by Newsweek magazine. Beschloss was historian at the Smithsonian Institute from 1982-1986, senior associate member at St. Anthony's College, University of Oxford, England, from 1985-1987, and a senior fellow at the Annenberg Foundation in Washington, DC, from 1987-1996.  He is a member of the American Historical Association and sits on the board of trustees of the White House Historical Association, Foreign Affairs magazine, the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation (Monticello), and the Urban Institute. Beschloss is currently working on a history of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln and the second volume of the Lyndon Johnson tapes. The Cameron Lecture in Politics and Public Affairs is made possible by an endowment fund established by Mrs. Flora C. Crichton.  Admission is on a first-come, first-seated basis.  Doors open at 6:45 p.m.

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