|
|
|
|
 |
|
REAGAN CONFIDANTE TO SPEAK AT SECOND ANNUAL LECTURE |
|
|
|
|
January 08, 2008
GROVE CITY, Pa. – Ronald Reagan’s U.S. Attorney General and longtime confidante Edwin P. Meese III will open “A Door to the Oval Office” at the second annual Ronald Reagan Lecture at 7 p.m. Feb. 12 in Ketler Auditorium of the Pew Fine Arts Center on the Grove City College campus. The lecture is sponsored by The Center for Vision & Values at Grove City College.
The Ronald Reagan Lecture is held each year around Feb. 6, the anniversary of Ronald Reagan’s birth. The lecture series aims to bring to light Reagan’s contributions to America and the world. Each year, the Center will host an individual who worked for, knew or has produced important work on the 40th President.
Meese will give an insider’s view of the internal workings of the Reagan Administration and the significant events of Reagan’s Presidency through a town hall style discussion moderated by the Center’s Executive Director and Reagan biographer Dr. Paul Kengor. The event will feature a multimedia presentation and a question-and-answer session.
Meese holds the Ronald Reagan Chair in Public Policy at The Heritage Foundation, and is responsible for keeping Reagan’s legacy of conservative principles alive in public debate and discourse. He also is the chairman of Heritage’s Center for Legal and Judicial Studies, founded in 2001 to educate government officials, the media and the public about the Constitution, legal principles and how they affect public policy.
From January 1981 to February 1985, Meese held the position of counselor to the President – the senior position on the White House staff – where he functioned as Reagan’s chief policy adviser. He then served as the 75th Attorney General from February 1985 to August 1988. As Attorney General and as Counselor, Meese was a member of Reagan’s Cabinet and the National Security Council. He served as chairman of the Domestic Policy Council and of the National Drug Policy Board.
Meese headed Reagan’s transition effort after the former governor won the 1980 presidential election. During the presidential campaign that year, he served as chief of staff and senior issues adviser for the Reagan-Bush Committee. Formerly, Meese served as Gov. Reagan’s legal affairs secretary, executive assistant and chief of staff in California. Before joining Gov. Reagan’s staff in 1967, Meese served as deputy district attorney in Alameda County, Calif.
Meese has also been a business executive in the aerospace and transportation industry, serving as vice president for administration of Rohr Industries, Inc. in Chula Vista, Calif.
A native of Oakland, Calif., he graduated from Yale University in 1953 and a law degree from the University of California-Berkeley. He is a retired Colonel in the Army Reserve and remains active in numerous civic and educational organizations.
He is the author of “Leadership, Ethics and Policing” and “With Reagan: The Inside Story,” and co-editor of “Making America Safer.” He and his wife, Ursula, have two grown children and live in McLean, Va.
Registration fees for the public are:
• $75, includes a pre-lecture reception, lecture, reception and book signing
• $20, includes lecture, reception and book signing
• $10 for non-Grove City College students, includes lecture and reception (college ID required)
To register, log on to www.grovecityconference.com/reagan2, contact Brenda Vinton at (724) 450-1541 or mail registration fees to Brenda Vinton/Ronald Reagan Lecture, Grove City College, Box 3147, 200 Campus Dr., Grove City, PA 16127. Checks should be made out to The Center for Vision & Values. The registration deadline is Feb. 7.
| |
|
|
|
|
Print Page