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The Brian Lehrer Show at Aspen: Teddy, Barack, and John

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Partner:: Aspen Institute
Location:: The Aspen Institute
Aspen, CO
Event Date:: 07.04.08
Speakers:: Jane Harman,; Joshua Hawley,; David M. Kennedy,; Brian Lehrer,; John Podesta
Tags:: presidency; election; campaign; obama

Summary: Brian Lehrer hosts a live taping of The Brian Lehrer Show entitled Teddy, Barack, and John: Advice to the Next President at the 2008 Aspen Ideas Festival with panelists Joshua Hawley, Rep. Jane Harman, David Kennedy, and John Podesta.

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Jane Harman

Jane Harman is president, CEO, and director of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. She is a former US representative (D-CA). Representing the aerospace center of California during nine terms in Congress, she served on all of the major security committees: six years on Armed Services, eight years on Intelligence, and four years on Homeland Security. She has made numerous congressional fact-finding missions to hot spots around the world, including North Korea, Syria, Libya, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, and Guantánamo Bay, to assess threats against the United States. Harman has received numerous awards, including the Defense Department Medal for Distinguished Service, the CIA’s Agency Seal Medal, and the National Intelligence Distinguished Public Service Medal. Prior to serving in Congress, she was a top aide in the United States Senate, deputy cabinet secretary to President Jimmy Carter, special counsel to the Department of Defense, and in private law practice.

Joshua Hawley

Joshua Hawley is a judicial clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. and the author of Theodore Roosevelt: Preacher of Righteousness. He also served as a judicial clerk to Judge Michael W. McConnell of the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals. A former teaching fellow at St. Paul's School in London, he was president of the Federalist Society at Yale Law School. He graduated from Stanford University.

David M. Kennedy

David M. Kennedy is the Donald J. McLachlan Professor of History at Stanford University, where he teaches 20th-century U.S. history, American political and social thought, American foreign policy, American literature, and the comparative development of democracy in Europe and America.

A scholar whose work integrates economic and cultural analysis with social and political history, he received the Pulitzer Prize for his book Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945. His other books include Over Here: The First World War and American Society, The American People in the Depression, and Birth Control in America: The Career of Margaret Sanger.

He is a co-author of the textbook The American Pageant: A History of the Republic, now in its 13th edition.

Brian Lehrer

Brian Lehrer is a radio talk show host on New York City's public radio station WNYC. His daily two-hour program, The Brian Lehrer Show, features interviews with newsmakers and experts about current events and social issues. Lehrer was formerly an anchor and reporter for NBC Radio Networks, and has been in broadcast journalism for more than 20 years. Lehrer obtained B.A.'s in Music and Mass Communications from the State University of New York at Albany. He holds a Master of Public Health degree from the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health and a masters degree in Journalism from Ohio State University.

John Podesta

John Podesta is the president and CEO of the Center for American Progress and visiting professor of Law at the Georgetown University Law Center.

Podesta served as chief of staff to President William J. Clinton from October 1998 until January 2001 and was at that time responsible for directing, managing, and overseeing all policy development, daily operations, Congressional relations, and staff activities of the White House.

He coordinated the work of cabinet agencies with a particular emphasis on the development of federal budget and tax policy and served in the President's Cabinet and as a principal on the National Security Council.

Podesta has also held a number of positions on Capitol Hill, including counselor to Democratic Leader Senator Thomas A. Daschle; chief counsel for the Senate Agriculture Committee; chief minority counsel for the Senate Judiciary Subcommittees on Patents, Copyrights, and Trademarks Security and Terrorism and Regulatory Reform; and counsel on the Majority Staff of the Senate Judiciary Committee.

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01.: Pre-Broadcast Remarks

04 min 21 sec

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02.: Introduction

03 min 56 sec

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03.: Theodore Roosevelt

07 min 23 sec

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04.: International Institutions

03 min 59 sec

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05.: Presidential Creativity

04 min 04 sec

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06.: New Progressivism

06 min 10 sec

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07.: American Leadership on Energy Reform

03 min 48 sec

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08.: Division Among Democrats

03 min 28 sec

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09.: Optimism from the President

03 min 07 sec

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10.: Youth Pessimism

03 min 46 sec

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11.: People of Color and Women

03 min 23 sec

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12.: Updating International Organizations

04 min 28 sec

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13.: Liberty Is a Social Undertaking

05 min 18 sec

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Joshua Hawley on Race, Freedom and Teddy Roosevelt

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Joshua Hawley, author of the book Theodore Roosevelt: Preacher of Righteousness, explains Roosevelt's views on liberty and democracy.

"Freedom was a way of life" for Roosevelt, Hawley says, and this philosophy is reflected in the social institutions which received Roosevelt's support.
John Podesta Ties the Roosevelts to 2008 Progressives

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Former Clinton Chief of Staff John Podesta traces the legacy of American progressives back to presidents Theodore and Franklin Roosevelt.

Podesta believes that progressive tenets like 8 hour work day, suffrage, graduated income tax, and workers comp left their mark on American politics.
Rep. Jane Harman on Environmental Stewardship

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Drawing from Theodore Roosevelt's record of wilderness preservation, Congresswoman Jane Harman calls on the next President to follow in Roosevelt's footsteps by developing a new energy strategy.
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