OBAMA'S FIRST 100 DAYS
MONDAY, April 27, 2009, 6:30 p.m.
Free. Reservations required. Please call 215.409.6700 or order online.
Annenberg Center for Education and Outreach
Kirby Auditorium
National Constitution Center
Independence Mall
525 Arch Street
Philadelphia, PA
Since Franklin Delano Roosevelt guided fifteen pieces of legislation through Congress in the first three months of his administration, expectations have risen for the first 100 days of every presidential administration. With the nation embroiled in two wars and a deep recession, the public has high hopes for President Obama’s first 100 days. As this time period draws to a close, the Center welcomes historians and journalists to reflect on the policy decisions and political maneuvers of his new administration. Politico journalist, Carrie Budoff Brown; Stanley Greenberg, leading political strategist and author of Dispatches from the War Room; and Byron York, The Washington Examiner’s Chief Political Correspondent join us. John Gizzi, Political Editor for Human Events moderates. This program is being presented as part of the Knight Constitutional Conversations series.
Carrie Budoff Brown started in journalism at the York (Pa.) Daily Record in the summer before her freshman year in college. She interned at the Richmond Times Dispatch and the New York Times. She worked as a staff writer at the Hartford Courant and the Philadelphia Inquirer, where she covered state politics and the 2004 and 2006 campaigns of Sens. Arlen Specter and Rick Santorum. She arrived at Politico on the day it launched in 2007. Budoff Brown spent a year traveling with the Obama campaign, and is now covering the White House with a focus on the health care reform debate.
As the Political Editor for Human Events, John Gizzi writes a weekly politics column and the Gizz-ette blog. He started at Human Events in 1979 after graduating from Fairfield University in Connecticut and then working for the Travis County (Tex.) Tax Assessor. Gizzi has appeared on hundreds of radio and TV programs, including those on C-SPAN, America's Voice, and Talk America, and is also a frequent contributor to the BBC. He is a recipient of the William A. Rusher Award for Journalistic Excellence and was named Journalist of the Year by the Conservative Political Action Conference in 2002.
Stanley B. Greenberg has work as a political consultant for some of the most influential world leaders, including President Bill Clinton, Vice President Al Gore, South African President Nelson Mandela and Britain’s Tony Blair. With his new book, Dispatches from the War Room: In the Trenches with Five Extraordinary Leaders, he takes readers on a fascinating, fly-on-the-wall journey into the heart of these campaigns and behind the scenes as strategies and game-plans are worked and re-worked.
Byron York is the Chief Political Correspondent for The Washington Examiner, a publication he joined in early 2009 following his work as White House correspondent for National Review magazine and a columnist for The Hill. He has written for the Atlantic Monthly, Wall Street Journal, Weekly Standard, and New York Post, among other publications. A frequent guest on television and radio, he has appeared on such programs as Meet the Press, The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, The O’Reilly Factor, Special Report with Brit Hume, and Hardball.
The Knight Constitutional Conversation series have been generously underwritten by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation promotes excellence in journalism worldwide and invests in the vitality of the U.S. communities where the Knight brothers owned newspapers. Knight Foundation focuses on projects with the potential to create transformational change. For more, visit www.knightfoundation.org.
A book sale and signing will follow the program courtesy of Joseph Fox Bookshop. Parking for this event is available for $7.00 at the National Constitution Center garage located at the rear of the building on Race Street between 5th and 6th Streets. Parking availability is subject to change, so please call the ConstitutionCenter on the day of the program or check our web site for more information. Please also see our directions by public transportation.
For reservations please call 215.409.6700 or order online. Programs at the National Constitution Center begin promptly and latecomers may not be admitted to the program. Please note that this program is subject to change
Links:
Nothing to Fear: FDR's Inner Circle and the Hundred Days that Created Modern America
Dispatches from the War Room: In the Trenches with Five Extraordinary Leaders
The Washington Examiner
