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Trinity University To Sponsor Debate Between Jack Kemp and Bill Bradley: “Of Two Minds” |
| Sharing both political and athletic backgrounds, Bill Bradley and Jack Kemp also will share their views on current events during the 2003 Flora Cameron Lecture in Politics and Public Affairs at Trinity University. They will follow a debate format in a program titled “Of Two Minds” beginning at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, March 20 in Laurie Auditorium. The event is free and open to the public.
As a senator from 1979 to 1996 representing New Jersey, Mr. Bradley helped pass the Tax Reform Act of 1986, which lowered tax rates for millions of Americans. He advocated expanded global trade and federal budget priorities that bolstered the national economy and met critical human needs. In 2000, he sought the Democratic nomination for president. Currently, Mr. Bradley is managing director of Allen & Co. Inc., and has been a senior essayist for CBS Evening News while serving as a visiting professor at Stanford, Notre Dame, and the University of Maryland. He is the author of five books on American politics, culture, and economy, along with a best-selling memoir Time Present, Time Past.
Before founding this organization, Mr. Kemp served four years as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development in George Bush’s administration and was his party’s nominee for vice president in 1996. In the previous year, he chaired the National Commission on Economic Growth and Tax Reform. Prior to serving in the Cabinet, Mr. Kemp represented the Buffalo area of western New York from 1971 to 1989 in the U.S. House of Representatives. During his tenure, he served seven years as chairman of the House Republican Conference. His political career followed a 13-year stint as a professional football quarterback with the San Diego Chargers and the Buffalo Bills. He co-founded the AFL Players Association and was five times elected president of that group. On the night of the lecture, doors to the auditorium will open at 6:45 p.m. The lecture is made possible by an endowment gift from Flora C. Crichton. |
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Democrat, Mr. Bradley is known for skills that range from his appointment
as a Rhodes Scholar to playing professional basketball for the New York
Knicks, to serving as a United States senator. A gold medallist in the
1964 Olympic Games in Tokyo, Mr. Bradley was a three-time All-American
basketball player at Princeton University and graduated in 1965 with
a degree in American history. He was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship to
Oxford University before turning to sports. He played with the Knicks
from 1967 to 1977, helping the team win two NBA championships. He was
elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame in 1982. 
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Republican, Mr. Kemp is co-director of Empower America, a public policy
and advocacy organization he founded in 1993 with William Bennett and
Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick. Empower America is dedicated to the principles
of expanding freedom and democratic capitalism; promoting policies to
expand economic growth and entrepreneurship; and advancing social policies
that empower people, not government bureaucracies.