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<span style="font-size:14pt; color:rgb(12,100,192)"><b>Presidential Lecture Series with </b></span><b style="color: rgb(12, 100, 192); font-family: inherit; font-size: 14pt; font-style: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; background-color: ;">Richard
Norton Smith Feb 10- March 2</b></p>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">This year’s Presidential Lecture Series focus on the theme “Where Do We Go from Here?” The four events the comprise the series are listed below.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Richard Norton Smith is a nationally recognized authority on the American presidency. He worked for Senator Bob Dole, with whom he collaborated on books. Mr. Smith served as Director of the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library
and Museum, the Dwight D. Eisenhower Center, and the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">In December 2001 Mr. Smith became director of the new Robert J. Dole Institute of Politics at the University of Kansas in Lawrence.
There he supervised construction of the Institute's $11.3 million permanent home and launched the Presidential Lecture Series and other high-profile programs.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">The Robert J. Dole Institute of Politics is dedicated to promoting political and civic participation as well as civil discourse in a bipartisan, philosophically balanced manner. It is located on KU’s West Campus and houses the
Dole Archive and Special Collections. Through its robust public programming, congressional archive, and museum, the Dole Institute strives to celebrate public service and the legacies of US Senators Bob Dole and Elizabeth Dole.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">During the events, submit your questions for Mr. Smith to dolequestions@ku.edu for the question-and-answer portion of the program.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">These programs are closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">These special programs 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
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Follow the Dole Institute on Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter for updates regarding this and future programming:<br>
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<b>The Republicans: The Reagan Playbook</b></p>
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February 10</p>
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Presidential scholar Richard Norton Smith examines three successful Republicans, with a focus on Reagan, whose 1980 election win paved the way for a center-right nation and set the stage for the last 12-year period of one-party White House control since FDR.<br>
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<b>FDR Revisited: Learning from FDR, Clinton & Obama</b></p>
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February 17</p>
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As his administration begins, President Biden’s likely role models will be FDR, Clinton, and Obama. What can he learn from them?</p>
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<b>Breaking Precedent: The Last Four Years</b></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:"Times New Roman"; font-size:medium">The last four years featured a most unconventional presidency. What has changed? What will go back to normal?</span><br>
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<b>What I’ve Learned; Plus "Ask Richard”</b></p>
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March 2</p>
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In the final lecture of the series, Smith will present his checklist for a successful presidency. This program will feature an expanded audience Q&A session where the audience can ask him questions about the presidency.</p>
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