September 19 — America’s Role in the World: A Conversation with Lee Hamilton
Former U.S. Congressman, co-chair of the 9/11 Commission and Iraq Study Group, and member of the War Powers Commission…. Lee Hamilton = The Statesman’s Statesman
When: Thursday September 18, 8:00 PM
Where: East College, Meharry Hall DePauw University, Greencastle IN
Lee H. Hamilton is president and director of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and director of The Center on Congress at Indiana University. Hamilton represented Indiana’s 9th Congressional District for 34 years beginning January 1965. Hamilton served as co-chair of the Iraq Study Group–created at the urging of Congres– a forward-looking, bi-partisan assessment of the situation in Iraq. He served as vice chair of the 9/11 Commission and co-chair of the 9/11 Public Discourse Project established to monitor implementation of the Commission’s recommendations. He is also a National War Powers Commission member.
Moderators:
Bret Baier ’92 — Prior to being named chief White House correspondent, Bret Baier was a national security correspondent and reported on military and national security affairs, as well as on defense, military policy and the intelligence community from the Pentagon. He provided up-to-the-minute news coverage of the war in Iraq, and he was the only television reporter to travel with then-Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Richard Myers on the general’s first trip to Iraq following the capture of Saddam Hussein.
Martha Raddatz — Martha Raddatz was named ABC News Chief White House Correspondent in November 2005. As White House Correspondent, she reports on all aspects of the Bush administration for “World News with Charles Gibson,” “Nightline,” and other ABC News broadcasts. Raddatz joined ABC News in 1999 as the network’s State Department correspondent. There she covered the ongoing conflict in the Middle East, as well as traveled to Africa, Pakistan, and India with the U.S. Secretary of State. Her coverage at the State Department after the attacks of September 11th was recognized, along with other ABC News recipients, with a Peabody Award as well as an Emmy Award. Raddatz has also been awarded two Emmys for coverage of Kosovo and the Elian Gonzales case in the news program “Weekend World News.” She is also the author of the New York Times bestseller The Long Road Home, a book about the war in Sadr City, Iraq.
